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

The Democrats’ big win in the Senate has major implications for the Supreme Court — and for how they should think about reforming it.

It’s not just that a Democratic Senate will be able to guarantee President Donald Trump won’t get another Supreme Court pick. It’s that control of the Senate should cause Democrats to reconsider the ...Read more

Nevada followed the trend Tuesday, as Democrats routed Republicans up and down the state ballot. The domination was deep and widespread.

The results, nationally and statewide, signify widespread displeasure with President Donald Trump and serve as a sharp rebuke of White House policies — Iran, tariffs and overzealous immigration enforcement, ...Read more

The Dodgers lost four straight playoff games to the Milwaukee Brewers in a humiliating end to their season.

But this was worse.

Steve Hilton lost to Xavier Becerra in the race for governor before "Jeopardy" aired.

But this was worse.

President Donald Trump lost early, late and often Tuesday night in the midterm elections.

In contests across...Read more

Donald Trump has always been a master of a singular, alternate-reality art form: claiming total credit for every victory and accepting zero responsibility for any defeat. Following the historic Democratic sweep of both the House and the Senate in the 2026 midterms, the president once again deployed his favorite shield. "I don’t like to ...Read more

A blue tsunami washed over America Tuesday. Yet Florida Republicans found just enough sandbags to safeguard their power in a state that now looks more like a political island than a peninsula.

The sandbags came in the form of a massive campaign-cash advantage and heavily padded voter-registration leads. Thanks to both, Republicans were able to ...Read more

The 2026 midterm elections were a political shellacking for Republicans, costing them control of Congress. Yet they may prove to be the best thing that has happened to the modern Republican Party.

For years, Republicans treated President Donald Trump as indispensable: Crossing him, they feared, meant political death, and winning without him ...Read more

Michigan elected Abdul El-Sayed to a six-year term in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday. Don’t be surprised if he doesn’t finish it.

El-Sayed made waves by winning Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat in the Nov. 3 election, part of a monumental shift in Washington, D.C., and an utter rebuke of President Donald Trump.

But the Senate is not the ...Read more

Donald Trump long ago promised Republicans that, with him as their leader, there'd be so many wins, they'd tire of winning. He didn't say the wins ultimately would be Democrats'.

In the wake of a wipeout for the ages, is the Republican Party so tired of Democrats' winning that it will finally quit Trump? Don't count on it. Yet. But that ...Read more

While a fire may be burning two states away, the smoke still arrives, settling over neighborhoods and dimming skylines. School administrators move recess indoors, and outdoor work slows or stops. And then there are the emergency rooms that receive an influx of patients who suddenly find themselves struggling to breathe.

Families who never see a...Read more

Tuesday’s election results will determine more than control of the House and Senate for the two years. They will also play an important role in setting a course for addressing the nation’s looming entitlement crisis, particularly when it comes to Social Security.

Ignoring the program’s structural problems — the default setting in D.C. �...Read more

The economy is growing strongly, so why is nobody hiring?

The latest data show growth hit 3.4% in the third quarter of this year, faster than expected. Yet during that same quarter, the economy only added about 50,000 jobs per month — basically flat in an economy of 330 million people.

Betting markets are forecasting a small uptick: 70,000 ...Read more