On America’s Election Night 10 years ago, I was a diplomat with the U.S. mission to Somalia in Mogadishu. We were hosting a watch party with local political, business and civil society leaders. U.S. elections offer a chance to showcase how democracy works and to share American values, so these watch parties are a public diplomacy staple at ...Read more

Radical socialists are threatening to lead the Democratic Party into ruin and potentially turn an expected blue wave into an eventual red nightmare.

The Democrats’ midterm celebration could be short-lived as they realize the party has lurched so far to the left to make their 2028 candidates unelectable.

There is a real danger that post-...Read more

The keys to early release for imprisoned Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could belong to two Republicans after Tuesday’s election.

Those candidates are House Speaker Lisa Demuth in the governor’s race and Ron Schutz, who is running for attorney general. If elected, the two would join state Supreme Court Chief Justice Theodora Gaï...Read more

A group of Catholic leaders came to the White House Oct. 22 to pray for President Donald Trump. Unbeknownst to the well-meaning Catholics, their prayer in the Oval Office was recorded and the White House shared it without permission, according to Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob.

Everything is on camera, and every photo and every recording has...Read more

The Florida International University students who were part of a private chat filled with racist, antisemitic and violent messages want a federal judge to believe it was all in jest.

They are fighting FIU’s decision to punish them, claiming that the university took their provocative jokes — including talking about beheading Black people —...Read more

Should America long for the days when a married president would not publicly catcall a woman who was not his wife and when the crowd would not cheer him for it?

At a rally in Michigan, President Donald Trump called attention to a “beautiful” feature of rapper Nicki Minaj, saying her derriere was “hard to miss.” The most revealing part ...Read more

The next governor of Florida will inherit the nation’s second-largest death row population — and with it, a legacy of profound questions about the remorseless and deeply flawed system that put so many people there.

In a recent statement, Republican Byron Donalds said he “firmly supports” the death penalty.

Democrat David Jolly has said...Read more

President Ronald Reagan’s famous warning that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction; it has to be fought for and defended by each generation” is even more relevant today than when he first said it.

He correctly identified that prosperity is not a predetermined outcome. It is created and sustained by culture, ...Read more

Early this year, I lamented that the nation's former presidents had not come forward, forcefully and ideally as one bipartisan unit, to condemn the utterly condemnable incumbent.

At the time I wrote, armed and masked federal agents that President Trump had sent into American cities to enforce his immigrant deportations had recently killed two ...Read more

Most Americans are probably familiar with homicides from TV shows such as the “Law & Order” franchises, which have run for decades. They know that murder can be accomplished with a variety of weapons, poisons and even with bare hands. Less obvious is that it can be the direct result of government officials inducing people to distrust proven ...Read more

The most important outcome in next week’s midterm elections may not be whether Democrats or Republicans come out on top. It may be whether both parties accept the results.

Judging by the most recent polls, Democrats are likely to make gains in Congress and may win control of one or both houses. Unfortunately, when asked whether he’ll abide ...Read more

Today is the birthday of the Statue of Liberty, dedicated in New York Harbor 140 years ago, Oct. 28, 1886. Lady Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the United States, but she belongs to the whole world.

Her famous face is not trademarked. Her name is not copyrighted. Anyone can try to make a buck using her image, but the only way to...Read more

When the Pulitzer Prize Board has its autumn business meeting on Friday (October 30, 2026) in the World Room in Columbia University’s Pulitzer Hall, the members must put transparency at the top of the agenda and restore the annual live announcement and press conference when the prizes are unveiled every spring.

As this column discovered in ...Read more

The rambunctious teenagers crammed into a lecture hall suddenly went quiet when a woman old enough to be their great-grandmother, and smaller in stature than many of them, approached the podium.

Dolores Huerta was about to speak.

At the summer conference for Latino high school students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in the early 2010s...Read more

I’m not sure why it took Gloria Steinem’s death for me to really delve into her life. I knew she was a leader of second-wave feminism in the 1960s and a journalist, but I didn’t know much more than that. I was born in 1977, about three years after the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 made it illegal for creditors to discriminate ...Read more

Nithya Raman slowly recited the start of her handwritten message to Angelenos.

Llegué de la India con mi madre a los seis años. Sé lo que cuesta empezar de nuevo.

I came from India with my mother when I was 6. I know what it takes to start over.

The mayoral hopeful was in the green room of Univision's Westchester studios on Thursday, ...Read more

John James and Mike Rogers, while both Republicans, are two very different political candidates running markedly different campaigns against two very different opponents. Yet after months of campaigning, James and Rogers find themselves in nearly the exact same place.

James, according to the latest Detroit News-WDIV-TV (Channel 4) poll, trails ...Read more

The drone that slams into a Ukrainian apartment building may have been designed in Iran, built in Russia with Chinese parts, and launched alongside North Korean artillery shells.

Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery came back from a couple of weeks in Ukraine with a blunt observation: Ukraine “is fighting Russia, North Korea, Iran and China.” ...Read more

The midterm elections have largely overshadowed the U.S. Supreme Court’s most recent term, which began this month. Last week, the justices missed a prime opportunity to invigorate the Fifth Amendment’s taking clause.

The Bill of Rights prohibits governments from taking private property “for public use without just compensation.” Yet ...Read more

When Democrats rallied for House candidate Cait Conley in Chappaqua, New York, early Saturday morning, the crowd cheered as speakers counted down the minutes until early voting in New York state began at 10 a.m. That fervor is a challenge for Representative Mike Lawler and other Republicans defending House districts like this one — affluent ...Read more