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Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA).

All redistricting reformers are hypocrites

Michael Barone · October 21, 2026 10:53 am

James Carville poses for a portrait at the 27th SCAD Savannah Film Festival on October 31, 2024 in Savannah, Georgia. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD)

James Carville goes full radical

Reenactors at Mount Vernon in 2019. (Photo courtesy of Mount Vernon.)

On This Day: Washington fears a ‘great deficiency’ in weapons

Power transmission towers line a street in Redondo Beach, California.

Utility companies want to shift risks on struggling families

Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA).

Steelers, civic leaders, and Gov. Josh Shapiro break records and pull off flawless Day 1 of NFL Draft

The third-party breakthrough already happened — under Trump

Dan Hannan July 11, 2025 5:10 am

Director James Gunn arrives at the premiere of "Superman" on Monday, July 7, 2025, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

Superman is an immigrant? Hollywood succeeds in ruining another classic

Joe Concha July 10, 2025 5:34 pm

ICE, antifa, and the Democratic Party

Byron York July 9, 2025 4:54 pm

Gender icon on wooden blocks.

The gender gap grows wider and wider

Michael Barone July 9, 2025 3:21 pm

Protesters confront Los Angeles police department personnel in riot gear in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, June 9, 2025.

Disturbing glimpses of Democratic anger

Byron York July 8, 2025 4:27 pm

"What I was struck by last night was in thinking that if I had been watching and listening to this debate with my eyes closed, you would not have known that these were candidates for the presidency of the United States of America," Debbie Wasserman Schultz said. "It was more like a debate about the presidency of some authoritarian regime." (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Democrats are right — they’re ‘screwed’

Hugo Gurdon July 8, 2025 7:00 am

Medicaid, the BBB, and Obama’s revenge

Byron York July 7, 2025 4:01 pm

America at 250 is in danger of becoming just another country

Dan Hannan July 4, 2025 9:17 am

The merchant of America gets married in Venice

Tiana Lowe Doescher July 4, 2025 5:50 am

1775 and the forgotten man of the American Revolution

Salena Zito July 3, 2025 9:09 pm

The angry Left resists as the Right rejoices: A tale of two Independence Days

Joe Concha July 2, 2025 2:00 pm

President Donald Trump and Israeli's Bibi Netanyahu at the White House on Feb. 4, 2025.

What the 12-day war hath wrought

Michael Barone July 2, 2025 11:56 am