The Democratic Socialists of America don't like being called Communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, "I don't have an issue with an end goal of communism."
— Republicans made the House map better for themselves compared to the 2024 map by winning this cycle’s expansive redistricting fight.
— However, comparing this year’s map to the district lines in place in 2018—the last midterm held under President Trump—puts the 2026 House map in a different light.
— By a number of metrics, the 2026 House map is no more favorable to Republicans than the 2018 map, and it may actually be a little less favorable.
— The median House district by presidential performance is less Republican, the number of districts that voted to the right of the nation for president is smaller, and the number of plausible Democratic House targets based on history is comparable.
— We are making three gubernatorial rating changes today, all to the benefit of Democrats.
— We are making Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, the likely Democratic nominee, a favorite to succeed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) by moving that race from Toss-up to Leans Democratic.
Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ.
There are only two lanes to the Democratic presidential nomination two years from now, and one of them is already blocked -- by Kamala Harris.
Nearly five years after COVID upended the world, one fact has become impossible to ignore: Americans no longer trust their public health institutions.
— The 2026 election might spell the end of a number of long-running partisan winning streaks in races for senator and governor.
— Given what is likely to be a blue midterm environment, more longstanding Republican winning streaks are at risk this year, though a few Democratic ones could be as well.
— We look at competitive or potentially competitive races this year where a winning streak has lasted at least a decade. Each of the ones we explore began before the arrival of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate.
The New York Stock Exchange opened its doors over 230 years ago. It has been one of the iconic symbols of America's economic might for more than two centuries.
America has a socialism problem, and it's bigger than most citizens realize.
It's beginning to be a habit. It, in this case, is the messy business of center-left political jettisoning one leader suddenly deemed unelectable and, without resort to the usual rules or democratic procedure, designating a replacement. It's the process that came fairly close to giving Americans President Kamala Harris in 2024.
JD Vance has served admirably as Donald Trump's vice president and has been a true asset to the administration. Right now, he's favored to be the next Republican nominee for president when 2028 rolls around. But there are many other viable contenders.
"Warning: The exhibits in this museum were prepared by people who don't want you to love your country."
The welcoming reception that so many European soccer fans have received as they have crossed the nation in pursuit of World Cup games has struck many as a happy surprise of the summer of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
— One wouldn’t expect the president to get much of an approval boost from the nation’s 250th anniversary, particularly as he handles it in a highly partisan way.
— The president’s approval numbers, much like gas prices, are a little better lately, but still worse than they were before the attack on Iran.
— There is not a consistent pattern for postwar presidential approval from July 1 to the midterm, and in recent years a president’s approval hasn’t changed much over the last four months of the campaign.
During the Watergate hearings, Senator Howard Baker asked the question that came to define a generation: “What did the President know, and when did he know it?”
Bill Maher is the perfect liberal, at least on paper -- yet despite his talk shows being nominated for Emmy awards more than 40 times, it's only in Donald Trump's Washington that Maher finally gets the recognition he craves.
