I’ve seen enough. It’s time to revise our expectations about the midterms.

For more than a year now, conventional wisdom has been that Democrats would take back the House — but not the Senate — in the November midterms.

That’s because this year’s Senate map would require Democrats to win numerous seats in red states.

In fact, if ...Read more

Bravo to the House Oversight Committee for voting on a tally of 24-19 to issue a subpoena against recalcitrant Attorney General Pam Bondi over her handling of the Epstein files. Let’s hope that still means something.

It bears emphasizing that we’ve reached the point where it is extraordinarily rare for partisan legislators to break ranks, ...Read more

China has no reason to help the U.S. in the Strait of Hormuz — and every incentive to wait out this crisis.

Even President Donald Trump’s request to delay a much-anticipated summit with his Chinese counterpart will work in Xi Jinping’s favor. It allows Beijing to better lay the groundwork on the issues it’s pressing Washington on, from...Read more

Improper purpose: That concept lies at the heart of the striking opinion by Chief Judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in Washington, which quashed the Trump administration’s subpoenas aimed at Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Rather than focusing on procedural irregularities, which lawyers love to do, the judge homed in on ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho – Getting a cancer diagnosis is scary enough.

For Patricia Nilsson, her diagnosis of endometrial cancer is coming with a hefty dose of frustration: her health insurance company is overriding her doctor’s recommendation for treatment.

And if she were to go ahead with the treatment without approval from her insurance company, it...Read more

Those who quote Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” often mistake “Et tu, Brute?” as the dictator’s final line, as Caesar realizes his friend, Marcus Junius Brutus, has stabbed him. With vulgar Caesars dominating the news, from Donald Trump to Cesar Chavez, perhaps Caesar’s actual final line, “Then fall, Caesar,” offers a more ...Read more

It seems increasingly evident that the White House rushed into war with Iran without fully considering the potential consequences. That’s all the more reason to hasten the conflict’s end.

After nearly three weeks of fighting, the U.S. is reaching the limits of what air power can accomplish. Although American and Israeli strikes have ...Read more

For years it was a punch line. Now the Laffer Curve — which purports to show that tax cuts can increase revenue — is making a kind of comeback. This time around, it is providing more of an intellectual than a policy framework, but that is a useful role as some states and city governments appear eager to test the proposition that no tax is ...Read more

They were supposed to be the true believers, the ones who could be counted on to take a harsh and unyielding stance toward people living in this country who weren’t entitled to be here.

And in many ways, that’s still exactly who they are. But the four sheriffs and four police chiefs chosen to advise Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet...Read more

America's beleaguered 1%, backed by their supporters in Congress, are pleading for your sympathy.

They say they're treated unfairly by the federal tax code, you see, because inflation has sapped the value of their most cherished tax break, the preferential tax rate on capital gains. And they want it fixed.

Inflation, says Sen. Ted Cruz, R-...Read more

Three weeks into the Iran War, the main impact so far has been oil prices. The dog that hasn’t barked is oil shortages.

While Chinese motorists were lining up for miles to fill up on gasoline, and Asia has been desperately scrambling to find supply, here in America there’s been nothing like the 1970s oil shortages.

And the reason is one of...Read more

For those old enough to remember the first Gulf War, the scenes feel painfully familiar: Smoke rising over Tehran. Babies carried out of a bombed-out hospital in incubators. Missiles striking cities across the Middle East. Oil markets in turmoil as Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz. The war of choice that began with Israeli and ...Read more

On Monday came the latest evidence of dysfunction within the Trump administration’s counterterrorism apparatus, when Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned, citing his opposition to the war in Iran. But the disarray is not new.

In July 2025, Sebastian Gorka, the senior director for counterterrorism on ...Read more

Tuesday’s primary delivered a stark warning for Illinois Republicans: Fewer voters are showing up, and in too many places, there was not enough on the primary ballot that was actually worth voters showing up for anyway.

In well-populated portions of the state, the GOP is steadily vanishing.

Official turnout results won’t come out until ...Read more

The Senate began debate this week on the so-called SAVE Act, which includes a national voter ID requirement. Democrats have vowed to fight the legislation, likely leaving the GOP short of the 60-vote threshold necessary to advance the bill. President Donald Trump has urged Republicans to ditch the filibuster to allow passage with a simple ...Read more

For months, the senior U.S. senator from Montana pondered his political future.

Or so he said.

Wrapping up his second term and facing a glide path to a third, Steve Daines unexpectedly opted this month against seeking reelection, saying in an aw-shucksy video he planned to spend more time back home in Montana and enjoy more cherished moments ...Read more

While my mom didn’t coin the phrase, “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail,” she definitely liked expressing it while I was growing up. It was also a mantra of her parents on our family’s dairy farm. That’s where our future, as that of most farmers, depends on knowing what to do and how to do it.

For this reason, farmers and ...Read more