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Democrats float to the top of the dome

On a richly colored autumn afternoon, the Capitol was all abuzz, and I went forth expecting the breaking news of the day to be on the House side, with Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth's impeachment vote. Crestfallen after, I walked into the night and realized the more lasting story of the day was ...

Shut up and deal, Donald

Donald, how can you win the remaining two years of your term? You are the self-proclaimed master of the art of the deal. OK, then, let's deal. Throughout this year's summer and fall campaign, you made it clear that architectural changes in the nation's capital counted more to you than the makeup of the 120th Congress. At your first public appearance the day after the midterms, you expounded on the White House ballroom you're having built. You carried on about its limestone columns, marble floors and chandeliers for nearly 20 minutes rather than focusing on the election results. ...

Does Trump even care about national security?

What exactly does it take to get Donald Trump to read a security warning? More to the point, what does it take to get him interested in an alarming one overseen by his own secretary of state, Marco Rubio? The classified memo warned that Trump pal Jensen Huang, the AI chip magnate running ...

The midterms -- an autopsy

In the 126 years since 1900, nearly 90 percent of the midterm elections have led to the party in the Oval Office losing House seats, and two-thirds of those same elections have led to it losing Senate seats. Given this history, midterm losses of some sort in 2026 were almost a sure bet. But what ensued in November went well beyond all normal expectations. When all the votes are tabulated, the current blue wave may match the massive midterm losses that buried Bill Clinton in 1994 and Barack Obama in 2010. First, what does this massive 2026 slapdown now portend? A second-term president ...

JD Vance has no idea what 2028 voters actually want

I regret to inform you that we are now one week into the 2028 presidential election cycle. This is the stage where various factions try to shape the conventional wisdom to support their particular agenda. For Democrats, that's a difficult process, because they so wildly overperformed in the ...