For the combatants in America’s long-running culture wars, the triumph of Donald Trump and congressional Republicans was stunning — sparking elation on one side, deep dismay on the other. Advocates of LGBTQ rights and abortion rights now fear setbacks instead of further gains. But the outcome emboldened the anti-abortion movement and breathed new life into the religious right’s campaign for...

Hillary Clinton’s Popular Vote Victory Is Meaningless Did you know that Donald Trump won because the system is rigged? No, I’m not talking about “voter suppression” or disenfranchisement, though there are some people who claim that the GOP suppressed its way to a win. I’m talking about something far deeper, far more structural, and inextricably connected to America’s original sin...

How Left-Wing Billionaire George Soros Manipulated the 2016 Election He was particularly successful topping conservative law enforcement officials around the country. He’s “the puppet master,” Glenn Beck says. He creates what The Washington Times calls an “echo chamber” in the mainstream media. The studies and messages he manufactured were “used verbatim hundreds of times in sources ranging from The New...

While many are starting to grasp the enormity of Donald Trump’s victory, few seem interested in coming to grips with the significance of Hillary Clinton’s defeat. It’s understandable, for several reasons. Pretty much everyone was shocked by his victory, but liberals clearly are still in one of the early stages of grief. One of the main reasons Trump won is...

Donald Trump promised that he would make America great again. If he is to make good on that promise, he’ll need to start by robustly restoring our first freedom: the free exercise of religion. Unfortunately, under President Barack Obama’s administration, it came in for attack as never before. Thankfully, many of those attacks can be rectified in the very first...

Trump’s Victory Expands the Supreme Court — and Shrinks Its Docket President Obama’s administration has been defined by executive actions issued in response to congressional gridlock. At every stage, conservatives challenged those actions as violations of the separation of powers, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, each of them can now easily be rescinded. Though the Supreme Court...

‘Conservatives’ and evangelicals are at the core of Trump’s support Exit polls reveal some disturbing information about those who have held themselves out as the most principled voices on the right. President-elect Donald Trump got 81 percent of the “conservative” vote. He got the same percentage of self-identified evangelicals. If you are aghast that “America” could elect Trump, it’s important...

Trump’s victory ensures a conservative majority on the Supreme Court Donald Trump’s presidential victory preserves the Supreme Court’s narrow conservative majority by clearing the way for the new president to choose a jurist next year to fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. And with Republicans maintaining control of the Senate, Trump will have a free hand in...

The Top Nine Senate Races to Watch on Election Day With control of the Senate at stake, Republicans and Democrats are fiercely battling in at least nine states with competitive races. Republicans entered the 2016 election cycle on the defensive: Of the 34 seats up for grabs this year, 24 are currently held by the GOP and just ten by...

State officials prepare for an unusually chaotic Election Day Advocates worry that voters are not clear on the current rules surrounding photo ID and early voting. The Post’s Sari Horwitz visited North Carolina, where voting laws have recently changed, to find out more ahead of Election Day. (Monica Akhtar,Sari Horwitz/The Washington Post) Advocates worry that voters are not clear on...