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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

Did Tea Partiers ever actually mean it?

Dan Hannan June 6, 2025 5:25 am

Musk-Trump feud descends into embarrassing spectacle

Byron York June 5, 2025 9:56 pm

Media coverage of rising deadly antisemitism hits rock bottom

Joe Concha June 5, 2025 3:48 pm

The new politics of Metropole vs. Heartland

Michael Barone June 4, 2025 11:35 am

Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington.

Musk goes off the reservation

Byron York June 3, 2025 6:18 pm

In this photo released by Acting Governor of the Kursk Region Alexander Khinshtein telegram channel on Saturday, May 31, 2025, a view of a fire at the territory of an agrofirm after Ukrainian drones struck near Rylsk in the western Kursk region of Russia.

Drones — the new war machines

Hugo Gurdon June 3, 2025 12:00 pm

Media covering transit forget that children exist

Timothy P. Carney June 2, 2025 1:32 pm

President Donald Trump speaks during a swearing in ceremony for interim U.S. Attorney General for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, in The Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

How Trump led GOP from 2012 despair to 2024 triumph

Byron York June 2, 2025 10:39 am

Trump returns Pennsylvania steel to the backbone of America

Salena Zito May 31, 2025 9:44 am

Looking back on Musk and DOGE

Byron York May 31, 2025 8:51 am

President Joe Biden is accompanied by his son, Hunter Biden, and grandson, Beau Biden.

What Josh Shapiro learned from Original Sin and the Biden decline cover-up

Salena Zito May 30, 2025 11:30 am

Giving parents cash can help children — but not always

Timothy P. Carney May 30, 2025 5:05 am