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

Conventional wisdom has it that after President Donald Trump suffered a stinging rebuke from American voters, losing both houses of Congress, he’s now all the more likely to lash out via foreign policy — the one area where his power remains undiluted.

That has Ukrainians fretting (and Russia’s state-controlled media speculating) that ...Read more

In the decade following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, tens of thousands of Black teachers and school leaders lost their jobs, as white school boards integrated student bodies but closed Black schools and froze out Black educators. The repercussions of that purge are felt to this day, as the latest civil ...Read more

After Democrats’ midterm sweep that gave them control of the House and Senate, the investigation into the Epstein files is likely to receive new attention.

That’s welcome. The Epstein victims have gotten no real justice under a Trump administration that obfuscated rather than releasing all the documents. But Democrats cannot afford to ...Read more

The unprecedented investment boom to build out the infrastructure for artificial intelligence is projected to reach more than $10 trillion, if all current plans are realized. The money is coming from many sources, including corporate cash flows, public equity and debt issuance, private debt issuance, off-balance sheet lease obligations and ...Read more

Bold.

That's what I initially thought when a political novice named Nithya Raman upset an incumbent in 2020 to become the first democratic socialist elected to the Los Angeles City Council.

That's what I felt when Raman weathered well-funded challengers and loudmouth opponents to win reelection outright in the 2024 primary, despite ...Read more

The AI debate, which economists have been having for years in various contexts, has come for the profession itself. Jason Furman, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and now a professor at Harvard, recently said that if he were running the CEA today, he would “somewhat regretfully and sadly” use current AI ...Read more

Tuesday’s political earthquake upended the balance of power not only in Washington, but also in state capitols. Democrats now control both the governor’s offices and the state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, Nevada and Minnesota. They flipped the governor’s office in Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Iowa. And they broke...Read more

Waking up the morning after a big election is frequently an unsettling experience. There’s the vague sensation that something has changed, but it takes a while to get your head around what that “something” actually was.

And no matter where you fall on the political spectrum, a lot changed Tuesday night. It will take time — and patience ...Read more

As is only proper, the weight of post-election punditry has fallen on the question of the demographics and political impetus of Tuesday's blue wave. But it's not too early to ponder how Democrats should use their new congressional majorities.

Job 1 will have to be calling a halt to the Republican project to dismantle Franklin Roosevelt's New ...Read more

When it came to which candidate weathered the most overtly racist attacks, in a midterm election full of the most overtly racist campaign attacks in modern memory, there was no contest.

Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, was called a “jihadist” by the president. Labeled a representative of “terrible evil” by the ...Read more

Petty, vindictive Democrats celebrated their midterm blue wave by pledging to torture Donald Trump and potentially ride him out of the White House — no matter what the cost to the country.

The Democratic Party revenge tour is on, promising to paralyze the government for the next two years.

If the Democrats are going to follow spiteful Sen.-...Read more