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DC’s most pressing post-midterm question: What to do about Social Security’s pending insolvency?

Tiana Lowe Doescher · October 31, 2026 6:15 am

Democratic candidate for US Senate James Talarico and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. (Photos by Ronaldo Schemidt and Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images)

Extremist Democrats boosted by corrupt Republicans

From left: Eos CEO Joe Mastrangelo, U.S. under secretary of energy Alex Fitzsimmons, and Eos COO Michelle Buczkowski.

From China to Pittsburgh, Eos bets on American manufacturing

President Donald Trump gestures after speaking at a campaign rally at the Sioux Gateway Airport in Iowa.

Has no tax on tips/overtime/Social Security helped the GOP?

President Donald Trump and tariffs.

Why did anyone think Trump’s tariffs would be popular?

Gene Healy: A ‘9/11 for schools?’ Let’s hope not

Gene Healy December 17, 2012 5:00 am

A Libyan man investigates the inside of the U.S. Consulate in that country after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, in September of this year. (Mohammad Hannon/AP Photo)

James Carafano: What We Need to Know about Benghazi

James Jay Carafano December 16, 2012 5:00 am

NEWTOWN, CT - DECEMBER 16: Teddy bears, flowers and candles in memory of those killed, are left at a memorial down the street from the Sandy Hook School December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-six people were shot dead, including twenty children, after a gunman identified as Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Lanza also reportedly had committed suicide at the scene. A 28th person, believed to be Nancy Lanza, found dead in a house in town, was also believed to have been shot by Adam Lanza. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Hugh Hewitt: The mainstream media vultures gather

Hugh Hewitt December 16, 2012 5:00 am

NEWTOWN, CT - DECEMBER 16: Ty Diaz is kissed by his mother Yvette at a memorial down the street from the Sandy Hook School December 16, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Twenty-six people were shot dead, including twenty children, after a gunman identified as Adam Lanza opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Lanza also reportedly had committed suicide at the scene. A 28th person, believed to be Nancy Lanza, found dead in a house in town, was also believed to have been shot by Adam Lanza. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Gregory Kane: Culprit is society that devalues human life

Gregory Kane December 16, 2012 5:00 am

Star Parker: Tea Partiers must hang tough

Star Parker December 15, 2012 5:00 am

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks to workers about the economy during a visit to Daimler Detroit Diesel in Redford, Mich., Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Conn Carroll: Obama’s trickle-down economics

Conn Carroll December 15, 2012 5:00 am

Sally C. Pipes

Sunday Reflection: Obamacare vs. the Constitution: Part Deux

Sally Pipes December 15, 2012 5:00 am

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Veronique de Rugy: Let’s return to Clinton spending levels, too

Veronique de Rugy December 13, 2012 5:00 am

Terrence Jeffrey: Obama’s vision for America looks a lot like Detroit

Terrence Jeffrey December 13, 2012 5:00 am

Ron Arnold: Meet your new regulator: A Big Green law school

Ron Arnold December 13, 2012 5:00 am

Stock markets calm ahead of fiscal cliff

Lawrence Kudlow December 12, 2012 5:00 am

House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, who conferred with President Barack Obama yesterday by phone, walks to a closed-door meeting with the GOP caucus, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner and the other House Republican leaders are calling for Obama to come up with plan they can accept for spending cuts and tax revenue to avoid the so-called "fiscal cliff" of automatic tax hikes and budget reductions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Philip Klein: Resisting the ‘no surrender’ temptation

Philip Klein December 12, 2012 5:00 am