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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

A group of protesters.

The mass psychosis of Black Lives Matter

Dan Hannan May 29, 2025 11:05 pm

In this May 10, 2019, file photo, a container ship is unloaded at the Virginia International Gateway terminal in Norfolk. A Chinese state news agency said U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators promised to create “favorable conditions” for carrying out a truce in their governments’ tariff war during a phone call.

It’s about time courts stopped Trump’s illegal tariffs

David Harsanyi May 29, 2025 3:24 pm

Shapiro calls Trump US Steel deal a ‘BFD’

Salena Zito May 29, 2025 10:39 am

No, David French, we have no constitutional duty to subsidize Harvard

David Harsanyi May 28, 2025 4:22 pm

Elon Musk is seen in the Capitol after a meeting with Sen. John Thune (R-SD) while on Capitol Hill to talk about President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.

Why Musk is so important

Byron York May 28, 2025 11:46 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks as he attends a ceremony to launch new air and road infrastructure facilities in various regions via videoconference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.

Trump’s eyes opened on Putin. Now what will he do?

Michael Barone May 28, 2025 10:33 am

Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump meet at the 2017 G20 summit.

Putin plays Trump like a balalaika

Hugo Gurdon May 27, 2025 1:07 pm

Who was ‘shocked’ by Joe Biden’s infirmity?

Byron York May 26, 2025 1:19 pm

Why is Trump approval rising?

Byron York May 23, 2025 5:55 pm

Don German, Plant Manager of U.S. Steel’s Irvin Works, stands in the plant in West Mifflin, Pa., on March 19, 2025.

Trump makes deal of a lifetime for US Steel

Salena Zito May 23, 2025 5:05 pm

Why aren’t Democrats investigating Biden health officials for dishonesty on COVID-19 vaccine risks?

Christopher Tremoglie May 23, 2025 11:51 am

The sole suspect in the attack that killed Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., was identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez from Chicago, who chanted “Free, free Palestine” while in custody, police said.

The enemy within

Salena Zito May 22, 2025 5:25 pm