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

Technology took us out of our homes. It gave us a boss, office politics and an alarm clock — and it was awful. We got used to it; we made it work. Now technology might take those jobs away. But perhaps it will also restore the autonomy and flexibility that once defined work.

From when we were hunter gatherers, farmers, small scale artisans ...Read more

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order telling federal agencies to replace the term "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence." He said the word "artificial" makes the technology sound fake.

Many Americans already treat AI as a “super intelligence” that knows better and that they should confide in. Many already ...Read more

Whether they represent cornfields or skyscrapers, members of the incoming Congress discovered on the campaign trail a common winning message about the war with Iran: “This has to end.”

Yet even as the 120th Congress prepares to take office, intense planning is supposedly underway at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue to restart the Iran ...Read more

As expected, Republicans held onto power in Florida, but their plan to expand their control by manipulating congressional maps backfired — and should be a lesson that trying to predetermine election results is a bad move and an uncertain bet.

Months before Tuesday’s elections, Florida’s governor and lawmakers redrew four U.S. House ...Read more

Since August, President Donald Trump told voters in places like Texas, Georgia, Ohio and South Carolina to vote as if he were on the ballot.

They did.

Tuesday night, their message was unequivocal: It’s time for change. States that haven’t sent a Democrat to the Senate in 90 years voted to do so. Texas finally went blue. Voters turned out ...Read more

After a big loss, there’s always plenty of finger-pointing. Well, get ready because I have eight fingers (and two thumbs) to point.

Republicans who borrowed big-government ideas from the left paid for it on Tuesday. Voters wanted lower costs and an honest government, and conservatives have the better plan for both.

In 1960, Barry Goldwater ...Read more

Texas is far and away the biggest upset of the 2026 midterms. The resounding defeat of MAGA here also offers the Republican Party a chance for a hard reboot — if the GOP is brave enough to take it.

Texas is the largest red state in the nation. It hasn’t had national Democratic representation in three decades; it voted for President Donald ...Read more

President Donald Trump is a loser.

That’s not a slur but the only cogent analysis of what happened in Tuesday’s midterm election. As Republicans were blown out of the water, America witnessed a clear repudiation of Trumpism, as manifest in egotism, extremism, retribution, and both personal and familial corruption.

Tuesday night had the ...Read more

DETROIT -- The bold-faced headline over this election is: “TRUMP LOST!”

Voters turned out in huge numbers in Michigan and across the country to cast ballots against a president they’ve grown weary of.

In doing so, they turned against many first-rate Republicans and handed key offices to far-left Democrats and Democratic socialists whose...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas -- It took Donald Trump to get Democrats elected in Texas.

Not since the 1980s have Democrats won elections like Tuesday night, maybe not since 1964.

The last time Texas elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate and the Governor’s Mansion, the year was 1990 and James Talarico was age 1.

But the Austin Democrat kept his focus ...Read more