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BARONE: Heading toward midterm elections, Democrats not up off the floor

Here's a clue that the off-year elections in November 2026 may not go the way conventional wisdom suggests. That conventional wisdom is that the president's party almost always loses the House and, slightly less often, Senate seats. There are two structural reasons for this. One is that ...

SHAPIRO: What will AI do for our happiness?

The West faces a series of serious economic challenges: a demographic collapse that undermines growth; a welfare state that sucks money from the future and dispenses it in the present; a regulatory structure that focuses more on redistributionism and top-down control than on innovation. But, we ...

BARONE: Are ex-presidents a help or hindrance?

For a generation, Americans have had a historically large number of ex-presidents around, a possible source of counsel from one of only 45 people who have exercised the broad powers conferred by Article II of the Constitution. You might expect former presidents to supply elements of personal ...

WILLIAMS: The rotten core of a manufactured scandal

Did former President Barack Obama play a role in the fabrication of the Russia collusion narrative? According to National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard — once a rising star within the Democratic Party and now a gadfly for political truth — the answer is unequivocally yes. More than ...