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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

A New York Post report suggests that Census workers faked data used to calculate the unemployment rate.ÃÂ (Thinkstock Image)

The three myths of labor force participation

Diana Furchtgott-Roth January 14, 2014 5:00 am

The Democrats who wrote the Affordable Care Act in 2009 gave the Internal Revenue Service power to collect Obamacare penalties. (Getty images File)

Will IRS bully people to sign up for Obamacare?

Byron York January 13, 2014 5:00 am

A year later, the legislative legacy of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., is far less dramatic than it might have been. (Photo by Connecticut State Police via Getty images)

Newtown: The moral panic that wasn’t

Gene Healy January 13, 2014 5:00 am

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie enters the Borough Hall in Fort Lee to apologize to Mayor Mark Sokolich on Jan. 9 in Fort Lee, New Jersey. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

What will it take for reporters to demand of Obama what they demanded of Chris Christie?

Cal Thomas January 13, 2014 5:00 am

In a poker game, if one player is better than others and wins 75 percent of the time, he gets more money than the other players. If the game was left to left-wing politicians, they'd prefer to redistribute the winnings rather than to teach other players to play better poker. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Income inequality says nothing about income fairness

Walter Williams January 13, 2014 5:00 am

Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, right, is captured by police and taken to the police station in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, June 28, 1914, after he assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife. This year marks the 100th anniversary of World War I. (AP File)

US is the best chance to save the world from a repeat of 1914

James Jay Carafano January 12, 2014 5:00 am

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks during a news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Chris Christie and the perils of power

Steve Chapman January 12, 2014 5:00 am

Reince Priebus and his colleagues at the Republican National Committee have already all but announced that the convention in 2016 will be brought far forward. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

Reince Priebus takes aim at Republican nominating process

Hugh Hewitt January 12, 2014 5:00 am

President Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to then-retiring Defense Secretary Robert Gates during an Armed Forces Farewell Tribute at the Pentagon in June 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Robert Gates book portrays Obama as a different kind of president

Michael Barone January 12, 2014 5:00 am

This March 12, 1972 file photo shows poet and social activist Amiri Baraka speaking during the Black Political Convention in Gary, Ind. (AP/Julian C. Wilson)

Amiri Baraka represented the worst of today’s Left

Gregory Kane January 12, 2014 5:00 am

People stand in the lobby ofÃÂ JPMorganÃÂ Chase headquarters in New York. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Why the erosion of public trust? Here’s why: JPMorgan gets wrist slapped in Madoff affair

Diane Dimond January 11, 2014 5:00 am

With oil pump jacks as a backdrop, President Obama speaks at an oil and gas field on federal lands in Maljamar, N.M., in March 2012. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Big Oil takes on Big Oil over crude exports

Timothy P. Carney January 11, 2014 5:00 am