Politics

A Democratic Senate candidate pledging to secure the border held a campaign event at a store selling 'Abolish ICE' merchandise. The contradiction isn't subtle.

Twice a year, the federal government forcibly adjusts when you wake up, eat, and sleep. And half the country still thinks this is normal.

Americans are wary of another Middle East military commitment. That wariness is legitimate. It's also insufficient as a basis for grand strategy.

Trump isn't just picking candidates. He's rebuilding the Republican Party from the primary up, and establishment critics still don't understand why it's working.

An Estée Lauder executive dead at 39 in her own home. The tragedy is real. So are the questions it should be prompting about how we treat high-achieving people's health.

Sixty-five years of communist misery on an island 90 miles from Florida, and Washington spent most of that time looking the other way. Trump isn't looking away.

House Democrats are scrambling to pass a war powers resolution on Iran. The politics are obvious, the constitutional argument is selective, and the strategy is pure theater.

A Democrat wins a Texas state race and suddenly the GOP is in crisis? The panic is overblown, but the lesson buried inside it is one Republicans can't afford to ignore.

A charismatic Democrat wins a Texas special election and the left starts dreaming of a blue state. But charm isn't a platform, and Texas voters haven't changed their minds about what matters.

While critics demand endless diplomatic theater, Trump's pressure campaign against Iran has achieved more in months than a decade of nuclear deals failed to produce.

Suddenly Democrats care about military readiness. The same party that gutted defense budgets for a decade is now fretting about munitions stockpiles.

A publication that once covered foreign policy and defense now celebrates activist networks. The degradation of Washington journalism is now official.

The press frames congressional division on Iran as a crisis. It isn't. It's the constitutional system working as designed — and the executive branch is the beneficiary.

The Hill's annual celebration of influential women says more about how Washington defines power than about the women themselves.

Markets moved on the Iran news before the cable hosts finished their hot takes. Read the tape. It tells a cleaner story than the Senate floor.

The House returned to Washington with five unanswered questions about Iran. The real scandal is that Congress is the last body capable of answering any of them.

Democrats refused to fund DHS even as Iran struck. The party that claims to care about national security just showed you their hand.

The Texas Senate primaries aren't just a race. They're a referendum on whether Republican voters still trust the people claiming to represent them.

Both parties are calculating their political exposure from the Iran conflict. Neither is asking the question that actually matters: are we fighting for something real?

The political science of compact electoral minorities is real and fascinating. What Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico do with that power is a different question entirely.

When senators from your own party start asking hard questions about mission scope and exit strategy, a president should listen. Not comply — but listen.

The Guthrie sisters left a card at their mother's memorial. Two months in, and the institutions meant to help families in crisis have done almost nothing.

Texas and North Carolina are kicking off the 2026 primaries, and the races to watch aren't the ones the consultants want you to follow.