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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

Getting married and having children is one of the secrets to financial success. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Escape poverty: graduate, work, get married, have kids

Terence Jeffrey January 7, 2014 5:00 am

PresidentÃÂ ObamaÃÂ pauses as he speaks at the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center in San Francisco. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The Left’s latest mantra: Income inequality

David Limbaugh January 7, 2014 5:00 am

To fans and defenders of the Affordable Care Act, the bill is your normal, run-of-the-mill but wholly fantastic and wonderful game-changing measure, up there with Social Security, Medicare and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts as national milestones. (Photo: Thinkstock)

It may be ‘the law,’ but Obamacare deserves no respect

Noemie Emery January 7, 2014 5:00 am

Gasoline station attendants are virtually absent today, as technology has replaced work once done by low-wage, low-skilled workers. (Thinkstock)

Politics and the minimum wage

Walter Williams January 6, 2014 5:00 am

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, his wife Chirlane McCray, second from right, and his children Chiara, left, and Dante de Blasio wave to the crowd after Bill de Blasio took the oath of office during the public inauguration ceremony at City Hall in New York on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The ‘trickle-down’ lie

Thomas Sowell January 6, 2014 5:00 am

On New Year's Day, French President Francois Hollande admitted that taxes in his country have become "too heavy, much too heavy." (AP File)

Hold the Left accountable for what its ideology has wrought

Cal Thomas January 6, 2014 5:00 am

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Senate Democrats, emerge from a private meeting at the Capitol with senior Obama administration officials, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Medicare chief Marilyn Tavenner, after seeking reassurances about problems with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Do Democrats really want to ‘fix’ Obamacare?

Byron York January 6, 2014 5:00 am

A line waits outside the Cannabis Club on Main Street in downtown Breckenridge, Colo., for an 8 a.m. opening of the store on Jan. 1. (AP/Denver Post)

The ‘War on Drugs’ isn’t worth the collateral damage

Gregory Kane January 5, 2014 5:00 am

Dennis Hastert was sworn in as Speaker of the House in January of 1999. (AP/Greg Gibson)

On immigration, start with what’s doable to avoid lasting bitterness

James Jay Carafano January 5, 2014 5:00 am

Hispanics are bound to form some larger percentage of the electorate than the 10 percent recorded in the 2012 exit poll. And one that inevitably will be targeted by both parties and many candidates. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Hispanic vote up for grabs after Obama’s setbacks

Michael Barone January 5, 2014 5:00 am

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Hard left turn will lead to dead end for Democrats

Hugh Hewitt January 5, 2014 5:00 am

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio waves after being sworn in during the public inauguration ceremony at City Hall in New York City, on Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Bill de Blasio’s ‘march’ to end inequality tramples little guy

Timothy P. Carney January 4, 2014 5:00 am