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September 23, 2026Un-Gifted and Talented By John Stossel
   Schools are ending gifted and talented programs. They will no longer separate kids by ability.
September 22, 2026Al Gore's Inconvenient Lies  By Stephen Moore
   It was 20 years ago that Al Gore's book "An Inconvenient Truth" was published, and ... well, it turns out that the truth was inconvenient -- for Al and his band of apocalyptics.
September 22, 2026The Immigration Politics of a Felon's Pardon By Daniel McCarthy
How far will New York Gov. Kathy Hochul go to keep immigrant criminals in this country?
September 18, 2026Politics and Mental Health: Cause, Effect, or Coincidence? By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Baby boomers grew up in a different mental-health culture. Anxiety, depression, and emotional struggles certainly existed, but they weren’t routine topics of conversation. The prevailing advice was often some variation of “suck it up and keep moving.”
September 18, 2026Both Parties Aiming to Lose the Off-Year Elections By Michael Barone
This election is a contest to see which party can do its best to lose. Looking forward from mid-September, President Donald Trump's Republicans seem to be well ahead at this. But the Resistance (or don't they call themselves that anymore?) Democrats are putting up a contest.
September 17, 2026Seven Weeks to Go: Polling Not Getting Better for Republicans; 8 House Rating Changes By Kyle Kondik
Overall ratings summary:
HOUSE: 210 at least Leans D, 203 at least Leans R, 22 Toss-ups. See ratings.
SENATE: 48 at least Leans R, 47 at least Leans D, 5 Toss-ups. See ratings.
GOVERNORS: 24 at least leaning to each party, 2 Toss-ups. See ratings.
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE
— There’s been little improvement in the Republicans’ polling position as the end of summer looms, with Democrats hitting a new high for the cycle in generic ballot polling averages.
— Eight House rating changes in favor of Democrats push them a little closer to 218 in our ratings and the Republicans a little further away.
September 16, 2026Free AI By John Stossel
Cell phones made my life easier. So did the internet.
September 15, 2026The Marriage Deficit Is an Economic Catastrophe By Stephen Moore
I'm thrashing for explanations and solutions to this deeply troubling social trend. Obviously, we are not returning to the "Father Knows Best" norms of the 1950s or 1960s.

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                            September 11, 2026Hey, Germany. It's Legitimate to Limit Immigration. By Michael Barone
        Just weeks after far-left candidates have won surprising victories in Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, Florida, Michigan, Colorado and New York City for the Senate and House in the United States, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has won a widely predicted victory in the election last Sunday for the legislature of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of Germany's 16 federal states.
September 10, 2026The Six Regions That Will Decide the House By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— The key districts in the battle for the House fit into a half-dozen regions scattered across the nation.
— What follows is a path toward what Democrats need to do (or Republicans need to prevent) in order to win a bare, 218-217 majority.
— Today’s update comes with a pair of rating changes in favor of Democrats; that does not include a pair of rating changes we are planning to make in Missouri if the state ultimately reverts to its 2022 map.

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                            September 9, 2026A Better Labor Day By John Stossel
   Did you celebrate labor last Monday, Labor Day?
September 9, 2026Secretary of State Races: Election Denialism Could Cost GOP Again in Swing State Races By Louis Jacobson
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— This year, 26 states will hold elections for secretary of state. Currently, the GOP holds 25 secretary of state offices to 22 for the Democrats. Three states do not have a secretary of state.
— Our analysis suggests that six secretary of state races this year are competitive, including two in the Toss-up category.
— During the last election cycle that had this many secretary of state races, 2022, election denialism was a major issue, and in several purple states it helped Democrats defeat Republican nominees aligned with Donald Trump’s allegations of election fraud. With this installment, we have shifted two secretary of state races from Toss-up to Likely Democratic because Republicans nominated candidates associated with election denialism.

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                            September 8, 2026How to Waste $9 Trillion to NOT 'Save the Planet' By Stephen Moore
        The world has spent $9 trillion to combat climate change since 2020. That is a World War II-type number.

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                            September 8, 2026Jobs and Manufacturing Are on the Ballot By Daniel McCarthy
   American manufacturing is on the rebound, and that good news could hardly come at a better time for President Donald Trump, as Republicans gird themselves for the midterm elections just two months from now.

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                            September 8, 2026We Do Need Some Education – In Western Civilization By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
Pink Floyd told listeners, “We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control.” Yet maybe schoolchildren do need some education – specifically about Western civilization and the values that sustain it.

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                            September 4, 2026What a Stalin Biography Tells Us About Our Time By Michael Barone
   History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present.
September 3, 2026The Governors: A Trio of Rating Changes Toward Democrats as They Chase a Rare Edge in Overall Seats Held By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— We continue to have just two Toss-ups in our gubernatorial ratings, but Alaska replaces Iowa this week, while Georgia remains a Toss-up.
— Democrats used to routinely control a majority of the state governorships, but Republicans have held a majority for almost all of the post-1994 period. Democrats have a chance to grab an edge this cycle, though.
September 2, 2026The Senate: Our Best Guess on the Toss-ups as Labor Day Nears By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Republicans probably retain a slight edge in the Senate, but that assessment has gotten harder to defend over the course of the summer.
— Read on for our best guesses on our five Senate Toss-up races.

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                            September 2, 2026Rent Control ... Still Doesn't Work By John Stossel
   In 2022, politicians in Minneapolis and St. Paul voted for rent control.

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                            September 2, 2026Stop the Democrats' Scheme to Pack the Supreme Court By Stephen Moore
   Democrats are in a quandary over the Supreme Court. Every four years, they've warned their voters that electing a Republican president will lead to more conservative Supreme Court justices. And yet since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980 through today, they've lost more presidential elections than they've won. Maybe the voters are telling Democrats something. Maybe Americans don't want the court packed with Sonia Sotomayors who make up or rewrite the laws as they see fit.