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Pittsburgh, PA - Inside mission control at Voyager’s North Side headquarters, where engineers will steer the Griffin lander to the moon. (Shannon M Venditti)

Pittsburgh’s moon shot

Salena Zito · November 6, 2026 12:55 pm

marco rubio and jd vance

In the GOP, a new 2028 race

Blue wave congress

America does the right thing after exhausting every other option

Ken Paxton election night watch party

The Red Wedding election

From left: Sen.-elect Troy Jackson (D-ME) celebrates his victory over Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in Portland, Maine, Nov. 3, 2026; Sen.-elect James Talarico (D-TX) celebrates in Austin, Texas, Nov. 3, 2026; and Sen.-elect Adam Hamilton (D-KS) thanks supporters at a victory party in Overland Park, Kansas, Nov. 3, 2026. (From left: Scott Eisen/Getty; Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty; Austin Johnson/AFP/Getty)

Character matters, unfortunately for Republicans

Democrats hope to derail Chris Christie campaign

Byron York January 20, 2014 5:00 am

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, in a ruling last month against the NSA, noted that "the government does not cite a single instance in which analysis of the NSA's bulk metadata collection actually stopped an imminent attack, or otherwise aided the government in achieving any objective that was time-sensitive in nature." (AP File)

NSA’s mass surveillance proves pointless

Steve Chapman January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Lately, South Korean President Park Geun-hye has tried to dial down the anti-Japanese tone in Seoul, but many South Koreans now rate Japan as a security threat on par with, or exceeding, North Korea or China. (AP Photo/Jung Yeon-je, Pool)

North Korea is Asia’s wild card

James Jay Carafano January 19, 2014 5:00 am

The Twitter traffic winner of 2013 was a USA Today article about Evan Spencer Ebel, a 28-year-old parolee from Denver who was a prime suspect in the shooting death of Tom Clements, the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections. (AP File)

Crime and justice issues are on the public’s radar

Diane Dimond January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Millennials voted for Obama in droves in 2008 and 2012, but they are finding less to like about him now as they struggle with education costs and finding jobs. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Millennials unhappy with Obama’s war on the young

Michael Barone January 19, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., questions a witness during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 17. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Tom Coburn caused fear and loathing on Capitol Hill

Timothy P. Carney January 18, 2014 5:00 am

Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T and the new head of the Business Roundtable, said that business growth doesn't happen without private investment. (AP File)

Business doesn’t want redistribution, it wants growth

Lawrence Kudlow January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Firefighters fight a blaze amidst rubble after terrorists crashed two airliners into the World Trade Center in a deadly series of blows that brought down the twin 110-story towers in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have both attributed terrorism to poverty and inequality. (AP Photo/Shawn Baldwin)

Rationalizing jihad based on ‘poverty and ignorance’ doesn’t stop terrorism

Michelle Malkin January 17, 2014 5:00 am

In America today, the political class is good with the rhetoric but has nothing to back it up. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Time for Washington to speak the language of the American people

Scott Rasmussen January 17, 2014 5:00 am

Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Courthouse in Philadelphia on Nov. 5. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Racial profiling not the issue

Linda Chavez January 17, 2014 5:00 am

This photo taken Dec. 17 shows anti-abortion protester Eleanor McCullen, of Boston, standing at the painted edge of a buffer zone outside a Planned Parenthood location in Boston. The regulation of protests outside abortion clinics returns to the Supreme Court for the first time since 2000 to find the justices seemingly more protective of speech and less committed to abortion rights. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Free speech on abortion will lead to greater respect for life

Star Parker January 17, 2014 5:00 am

A study by the National Center for Health Statistics, published in 2012 by Health Affairs, found that 31 percent of doctors were not accepting Medicaid patients in 2011, though the numbers varied by state.

Access problems loom for Obamacare

Philip Klein January 17, 2014 5:00 am