Never thought I'd say this, but DEI is back!

Diversity, equity and inclusion had an excellent midterm election:

California got its first elected Latino governor, Xavier Becerra.

New Mexico elected its first Native American governor, Deb Haaland.

Minnesota elected the first Native American woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, Peggy Flanagan.

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It’s being called regime change given the Democratic sweep of midterm elections across the nation, especially in once Republican-dominated Texas where Democrats won all the statewide races and the U.S. Senate seat. And Democrats won four of the five Trump-induced gerrymandered districts in the Longhorn State.

But it’s considerably short of ...Read more

For a time, Chad Bianco was one of the front-runners in the race for California governor — or at least as front-runnery as a Republican can get in this cobalt-blue state.

Polling in the primary showed the Riverside County sheriff drawing support in roughly the mid-teens, which — while nothing to shout about — was still enough in a jumbo-...Read more

America's obsession with the Latino vote has become a ritual as slippery and messy as a grunion run.

But who could be blamed for caring too much about how we crushed it in the midterms?

Latinos helped Democrats take back the House and Senate by casting our ballots in record numbers.

We flipped red districts blue, including those in the Rio ...Read more

When my wife, Christy, was murdered in 2011, my life was torn apart. My wife was the center of my universe. She was a mother of three, a grandmother, a friend and the person I expected to grow old with. She was working in a hair salon when a man walked in and brutally and senselessly shot and killed her and seven other people in the blink of an ...Read more

In the runup to Tuesday’s election, political prognosticators eyed Florida’s Amendment 3 with skepticism, doubting it would get the required 60% to pass.

But it did — and then some. It only fell short of that benchmark in a few counties including Leon, Alachua, Orange and (surprisingly) Seminole. Statewide, the amendment drew 61% of the ...Read more

Minutes before she was declared Minnesota’s next governor, DFL U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke to reporters for a few minutes, underscoring her goals and expectations.

At that moment, the four-term senator was on the verge of trouncing her GOP opponent, House Speaker Lisa Demuth, and becoming the state’s first female governor. Voters were ...Read more

The Democratic steamroller flattened Republican candidates across the country this week. But there was one bright spot for the GOP: Ballot measure results across the country failed to reflect the rushing blue tide.

In Nevada, the verdict was split. Question 6 — further codifying abortion rights in the state constitution — passed handily, as...Read more

It took me a while, but about a month ago I came clean and admitted it: I’m a YouTube addict.

I was in and out of rehab for about five years. By “rehab” I mean a self-imposed semi-conscious notion that, as a Gen Xer, I “should” prefer an outdoor, free-range existence: running through the woods barefoot, skipping stones across ponds, ...Read more

More than 124 million Americans made their voices resoundingly clear at the polls last week Tuesday.

By percentage, this was the second highest national midterm turnout since 1914.

Still, it is not the first time that bread-and-butter cost of living issues generated robust and even historic numbers. And it’s not the first time that voters ...Read more

The cost and time for building data centers just increased after a blue tsunami swept Democrats into positions that had been Republican strongholds for decades, such as the governor’s offices in Texas and Kansas. The pushback against data centers was definitely on the ballot, and the message was loud and clear: “We don’t want these noisy ...Read more

Last week’s tidal wave election was both an embrace of Democrats and a firm, widespread rejection of Trumpism and MAGA.

Thankfully, Donald Trump himself is not contesting the results, as he had threatened to do, perhaps a product of just how acutely he’s been rebuffed by the American public.

When the 120th Congress convenes on Jan. 3 under...Read more

The world’s advanced economies could be facing a slow-moving train wreck that they appear powerless to stop. We are no longer producing enough babies.

The fertility rates in many European and East Asian countries along with the U.S. are on an alarming trajectory. How alarming? Demographics may become nearly as big a deal for the U.S. as ...Read more

Fear is the easiest message in American politics. It is cheap to produce, quick to spread, and usually reliable on Election Day.

For years, this fearfulness has told Americans that the person next door is the enemy. On Tuesday, a great many of them stopped listening. In places almost nobody expected, voters turned away from candidates who vowed...Read more

The new Broadway musical "Wanted," opening this month in New York, is inspired by the true story of two fair-skinned Black women who passed for white during the Jim Crow era. And just as last year's Oscar darling "Sinners" featured the Smokestack twins — a pair of antiheroes who robbed the unjust to survive in 1930s America — "Wanted" ...Read more

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s historic, humiliating, crushing midterm trouncing, his most loyal followers are doing what could reasonably be expected from such a fine, upstanding bunch — variously jumping ship, backstabbing and doubling down on sycophancy and lies.

With dizzying speed, the Trump era has been upended by this ...Read more

With coalition-haggling just getting underway, it may be days or weeks before the shape of Israel’s next government becomes clear. But one thing is already obvious: Peace with the Palestinians won’t be its priority. The U.S. and its partners shouldn’t let it become an afterthought.

Ahead of last month's record-setting election, support ...Read more

Countries from North America to Europe and East Asia know that trying to “de-couple” from this powerful but predatory nation would be ruinously expensive, if not futile; but also, for the sake of their security and sovereignty, that they at least need to “de-risk.” But is this even possible?

For years, that predatory nation was ...Read more

Marylanders have given Gov. Wes Moore another four years and a striking vote of confidence. With roughly 63% of the vote, Moore and Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller have won a decisive reelection victory. The margin is more than a political triumph. It is a renewed responsibility to deliver for the people who supported them and for those who did not.

A ...Read more

This year Americans got two opposite sets of instructions for the same dinner plate. Many of us responded the way we now respond to almost everything: we picked a team.

In January, the Department of Health and Human Services released new federal dietary guidelines built around red meat and full-fat dairy. Less than three months later, the ...Read more