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Hugh Hewitt: After the Walloping

The GOP isn’t dead, but it sure does look and feel that way in the harsh light of the day after last week’s walloping. But the Republican Party isn’t dead. It’s just be

Carol Platt Liebau: The Vote was a Symptom

Republicans are reeling from the massive electoral defeat they’ve just suffered. Some argue that emboldened Democrats will inevitably overreach, handing Republicans the p

Carol Platt Liebau: Fighting for the Future

There are many reasons for the stinging repudiation Republicans suffered at the polls this week. But none is more important than this: As President Reagan understood, e

Seth Leibsohn: The Path to Renewal

Waking up to the shocking realities of Tuesday’s election—confused, resentful, and a bill of long-avoided realities—one might say we have all the conditions of a blackout

Seth Leibsohn: Restoring an Appreciation of the Things That Matt

Ronald Reagan used to quote the philosopher Montesquieu: “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded.”  Reagan

Albert Mohler: Huge Issues at Stake

It's election day 2026, the midterm elections. What is at stake? Lots of governorships across the country. The control of the United States Senate, the control of the US

Ed Morrissey: Almost All Over But the Voting

Our long midterm election cycle has almost come to its end. What will follow it? A long national nightmare – if voters don’t take Democrats at their word. Their party

Seth Leibsohn: A Time for Choosing

In 1964, Ronald Reagan delivered a famous speech called “A Time for Choosing.”  A few years earlier, Paul Harvey delivered a famous broadcast entitled “The Testing Time.”

Carol Platt Liebau: Cultural Condescension Once Again From Obama

Barack Obama was back on the campaign trail in the run up to the election. And, as he so often does before an adoring crowd, he indulged his penchant for mockery. Obama

Hugh Hewitt: Turnout, Turnout, Turnout

Turnout, turnout, turnout. Everybody —everybody—agrees this year’s elections on November 3 come down to turnout. If the ordinary GOP voters and the new voters Donald Tr

Albert Mohler: Americans Cannot Say They Weren't Warned

In the 25 years since deadly terrorist attack shocked the entire world on September 11, 2001, our nation has been forced to have a conversation about Islam. And from th

Hugh Hewitt: "Sell it to someone else, Peggy"

Minnesota's massive fraud scandal could deliver a stunning Senate upset. I’m referring to contest between longtime NFL broadcast professional Michele Tafoya and the Min

Seth Leibsohn: Don't Ignore What's Happening in France

Ignoring the riots in France will not constitute the first time we downplayed important lessons from Europe at our peril. Note the banners under which the protestors ar

Carol Platt Liebau: Slotkin's Threat

Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin recently said something truly shocking. Speaking at the University of Chicago, she argued that Trump administration officials should be

Ed Morrissey: CBS Reporters Shocked, Shocked to Hear Weiss Wants Reporting on El-Sayed

Scandal has once again hit CBS News, at least as defined by the rest of the Protection Racket Media. CBS reporters complained to Semafor's Max Tani that managing editor B

Seth Leibsohn: In Defense of the American Experiment

Every time there is an election, we often are dismissed for saying, “This election is the most important of our lifetime.”  We shouldn’t be.  Never before has the opposit

Albert Mohler: Rubio and the Defense of the West

Earlier this month, with a majestic view of the Acropolis of Athens behind him, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an address in which he declared the enduring achi

Carol Platt Liebau: An Ally-or-Enemy Test for Michigan Voters

Michigan voters face a stark choice for U.S. Senate: Mike Rogers, a former congressman, state senator, and FBI agent. Or Abdul El-Sayed, whose radical views should alarm

Ed Morrissey: Policies and Platforms Matter

Ken Paxton won the nomination to the US Senate in Texas despite personal baggage from the end of his marriage. His estranged wife, state senator Angela Paxton, took the e

Ed Morrissey: Republicans Must Make Midterms About Marxism

Democrats had one job to do in this cycle: Don't be crazy. But: Rather than offer a rational alternative to Donald Trump, the party has embraced Marxist revolutionaries a