By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2022 Emily Oster, writing at the Atlantic, asks whether we can all just forgive and forget about what we said and did to one another during the Covid-19 pandemic. On the question of masks, school closings, and the efficacy of this or that vaccine, some people got it right, and some...

MIDTERMS, BIDEN’S AGENDA, AND THE FILIBUSTER. On March 2, 2021, when he had been president less than two months, Joe Biden met with a group of liberal historians in the White House East Room.

Americans are worried about inflation, crime, groceries. So Biden talks with a transgender TikTok star.

Senator Rick Scott (R., Fla.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, on Sunday predicted Republicans will win at least 52 Senate seats in the midterm elections.

Tuesday night’s debates were an unmitigated disaster for Democrats across the board.

By: Daniel Henninger – wsj.com – October 26, 2022 Mr. Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor, suffered a stroke in May days before he won the Democratic Senate primary, and a question since has been whether his recovery was sufficient to eliminate the stroke’s effects as a voter concern. The answer on display Tuesday evening is that Mr. Fetterman’s recovery is so...

It appears voters in states that passed what critics called “voter suppression laws” didn’t get the memo that Republicans had made it too difficult for them to vote. News reports say voters are flocking to the polls.

A key ingredient for a healthy democracy is an independent and (to the extent possible) an apolitical judiciary. Yet recent polls show public trust in the judicial branch of the federal government reaching its lowest point in decades.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 25, 2022 Climate activists have found a new target — the greatest masterpieces in the history of Western art. Heretofore, no one thought that Claude Monet’s Haystacks — a sublime series studying the changes in light and color on haystacks in a field — or Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers — a painting that...

The midterm elections are now two weeks away. Some political commentators have an interest in portraying them as one big, suspenseful, down-to-the-wire contest.