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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

Supporters wave Iranian flags.

Fast-changing events making, or remaking, history

Michael Barone June 18, 2025 2:28 pm

The 10 worst predictions after Trump’s first campaign launch

Joe Concha June 18, 2025 2:00 pm

A decade ago, the start of the Trump era

Byron York June 17, 2025 3:48 pm

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei arrives to vote for the parliamentary runoff elections, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, May 10, 2024.

The only talks with Iran should be about its capitulation

Hugo Gurdon June 17, 2025 2:14 pm

Mourners carry the flag-draped coffins of five men, whose names were not immediately available, reportedly killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral in the city of Khorramabad, Iran, Monday, June 16, 2025.

Iran is nothing like the Iraq War

David Harsanyi June 16, 2025 3:28 pm

Two protestors attend the "No Kings" rally in Falls Church, Virginia.

No Kings: A very polite liberal tea party

Timothy P. Carney June 16, 2025 9:27 am

President Donald Trump participates in a reenlistment ceremony for Army soldiers during a military parade commemorating the Army's 250th anniversary Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Washington.

The parade was a good thing

Byron York June 15, 2025 1:06 pm

President Donald Trump speaks as he departs toward the Oval Office after signing an executive order at an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington.

The normal presidency of Donald Trump

Byron York June 13, 2025 7:52 pm

Trump leading Pennsylvania Energy Summit highlights US renaissance

Salena Zito June 13, 2025 5:39 pm

Democrats are in a bubble on illegal immigration

Timothy P. Carney June 13, 2025 2:00 pm

Trump is burning every US alliance

Dan Hannan June 13, 2025 5:40 am

George Orwell at his typewriter.

Bad books of summer

Dominic Green June 13, 2025 12:05 am