By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – November 5, 2025 No amount of gerrymandering will be able to withstand this kind of Democratic surge if it materializes again in a year’s time. It was hard to find any bright spot for Republicans in a near-comprehensive wipeout on Tuesday. This shouldn’t be overinterpreted, since in the normal course of things Republicans are...

By: William A. Galston – wsj.com – November 4, 2025 Manufacturing job losses in the 2000s affected politics. Disruptions to desk jobs will too. While this isn’t the first such transformative moment in American history, it may turn out to be the fastest. Four of America’s largest tech firms—Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon—combined have had capital expenditures of $360 billion...

By: The Editors – nationalreview.com – October 30, 2025 Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with Nick Fuentes makes it impossible to ignore the right’s festering antisemitism problem. The issue isn’t merely that Carlson “platformed” a white-nationalist influencer. This framing allows Carlson and his defenders to portray the interview and others like it as an effort at open debate, as a good-faith...

“We’re not going to lose our cities over this. This will go further. We’re starting very strongly with D.C., and we’re going to clean it up real quick.” — President Donald Trump, August 11…

Explores the origins and implications of the phrase about turning off the lights amid migration trends.

CNN data reporter Harry Enten discusses the results of new polls from AP-NORC and Quinnipiac on how the public is responding to the partial government shutdown. ” You might think, given that the Republicans are in charge of both the House and the Senate, that a government shutdown might actually hurt the Republican brand — but in fact, it hasn’t.”

Explore the rise of the Democratic Socialist Party in NYC amid global political shifts.

How does a 33-year-old lifelong do-nothing — a person who has never held a real job, never suffered a true challenge, been handed everything on a silver platter — turn into a mayoral frontrunner in New York City? How does a self-described socialist who despises capitalism become the leading candidate for the mayoralty of the world’s financial capital? How does...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – October 29, 2025 Powell hints at no rate cut in December, but why cut this week? Yet inflation remains above the Fed’s official 2% target even excluding tariffs. When the Fed chief says inflation would be 2.3%-2.4% without tariffs rather than 2.8% (according to the Fed’s core personal-consumption-expenditure measure), Mr. Powell is admitting...

A monthslong House investigation has concluded that President Biden “was losing command of himself” while in office and was not personally involved in many of the pardons, commutations and o…