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If Republicans are to recover from a crushing midterm election, they need to understand why their defeat was so sweeping and what must be done to regain the trust of the American people.

Voters told pollsters that the issues most crucial to them were government corruption and the cost of living.

Democratic ads featured allegations that ...Read more

Some businesses fail, and people lose jobs.

So politicians say, "We must protect workers!"

Some states expanded the WARN Act, making it harder to lay off workers.

But there's a downside to protection, says economist Allison Schrager.

"There is no prosperity, no growth ... no 'upside' without risking loss."

Schrager's new book "Worth the ...Read more

He was pontificating -- in the presence of the pope.

"They've been deceiving us. They've known the science. They've denied the science," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a May 16, 2024, speech at the Vatican.

What was it Newsom believed these adversaries knew the science on yet denied? It was "climate change."

Who were these deniers?

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Stephen Miller's appointment as White House chief of staff came with one very routine adjective: "hardliner." To elitist media operatives, that is defined as "anyone who dramatically disagrees with us."

Take this Nov. 7 Associated Press headline summarizing Miller's positions: "In his words: Stephen Miller is an immigration hardliner and a ...Read more

ERIE, Pennsylvania -- In the last week of October, fall foliage in Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains reached its peak, with native hardwoods and understory trees ablaze in red, orange, yellow and purple. A Democratic governor cruising to reelection had no obvious reason to travel through these rural counties, but Josh Shapiro went anyway. A...Read more

Paris is burning and facing economic turmoil as young protesters and criminals have taken to the streets in violent temper tantrums.

The leaders of Paris sit back in a state of petrified paralysis and have forfeited control as civil protest has turned whole neighborhoods into zones of chaos and jungle warfare. It's like a scene out of a ...Read more

Republicans' dismal showing in 2026 has made their 2028 presidential primary much more interesting.

It has long seemed likely the 2028 GOP presidential nomination would be decided by President Donald Trump. He has dominated Republican Party politics for a decade. The GOP base adores him for bucking the amnesty-pushing GOP establishment and ...Read more

Perhaps the most telling polling of the post-election Republican debacle compares the public's view of the economy during President Donald Trump's first term (before COVID-19) and second.

During Trump I, the president was a +9 on the economy, even when his personal approval number was atrocious. Today, the president is at -35 on the economy. ...Read more

Tuesday's election wasn't a blue wave or even a blue tsunami: It was a blue apocalypse.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.), who leads the one notable bright spot on the map, referred to the wipeout as "close to an extinction-level event" for the GOP. It was the worst midterm defeat for one party in over a half-century.

Much of the postmortem ...Read more

For the last two years, the Trump administration has been governed by a simple mantra: "We can just do things." On Tuesday, voters replied, "So can we," and wiped out the GOP. This was not a blue wave. This was not a blue tsunami. This was the breakup of a winning coalition.

Those voters, in breaking up the coalition, treated down-ballot ...Read more

We had a midterm election in which the Democrats and the Left were wildly successful. There is one way in which this makes some of them look either deeply stupid or dishonest. Many of them who rejoice now tried to claim there wouldn't be any more elections if Trump won in 2024, or that he might cancel the midterms.

On Oct. 18, 2023, Rachel ...Read more

More than a "thumping." That's what George W. Bush called it when Democrats won majorities in both houses by gaining six Senate and 30 House seats in 2006. In Tuesday's midterm elections, Democrats won majorities in both houses, gaining seven Senate seats, with chances at two more, and have gained or are ahead in 40 Republican House seats.

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Republicans have a lot of things to worry about after their catastrophic 2026 midterm, and one of them might be Jon Ossoff, the newly reelected Democratic senator from Georgia.

The presidential buzz had begun even before Ossoff won reelection by 18 points in purplish Georgia, and will get more intense now.

Perhaps he doesn't run -- and the ...Read more

Does the government work for us, or do we work for the government? We pay its taxes, obey its laws and regulations, finance its wars and submit to its surveillance. We are told that all of this is necessary for personal safety, collective prosperity and national security. Yet the government has become totalitarian while individuals have become...Read more

There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every reason to believe were secure. South Carolina's Darline Graham and Texas Attorney General Ken ...Read more

The U.S. midterm elections definitely settled one political question: The Democratic Party has deep political divisions that clever rhetoric can no longer hide.

Moreover, these divisions are ripe for exploitation by foreign and domestic enemies, destructive actors who don't give a damn about the price of eggs, diesel fuel and housing in New ...Read more

The headline item from Tuesday's elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of legislators who face the exhaustion of Social Security's retirement trust fund in 2032?

Each ...Read more

Where to start? There are plenty of lessons to be learned from this week's slaughter of the Republican Party. Here goes:

1. It's the economy, stupid.

How many times do we have to see this movie? The inflation caused by COVID-19 spending plus Biden-era policies has created real economic hardship for Americans. President Donald Trump promised ...Read more