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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

President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media as he leaves the White House to spend the Christmas holiday with his family at Camp David presidential retreat, near Thurmont, Maryland, Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023.

Biden and the polls: He’s fallen and he can’t get up

Byron York January 2, 2024 1:06 pm

Fervent wishes for 2024

Quin Hillyer January 1, 2024 8:13 am

President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for an executive order in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 5, 2019, in Washington.

Will the Western alliance survive a new Trump term?

Dan Hannan December 28, 2023 7:26 pm

U.S. deterrence policy has generated plenty of criticism from Capitol Hill. But that has been aimed at the administration's supposedly narrow view of what constitutes an attack and unwillingness to spell out likely responses.

Startling surprises in latest census numbers

Michael Barone December 27, 2023 9:21 am

This photo released by the Houthi Media Center shows a Houthi forces helicopter approaching the cargo ship Galaxy Leader on Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. Yemen's Houthis have seized the ship in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen after threatening to seize all vessels owned by Israeli companies.

Yemen would be a war too far

Dan Hannan December 25, 2023 1:05 am

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

The politics of incumbent rejection

Michael Barone December 20, 2023 5:16 pm

The Boston Tea Party was a political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773.

Exactly 250 years from the event that started the Revolution

Dan Hannan December 18, 2023 12:12 pm

Liz Cheney is right: Trump is even worse than most people think

Quin Hillyer December 15, 2023 2:57 pm

The hedge fund finishing school that is Harvard

Dominic Green December 15, 2023 8:03 am

Harvard President Claudine Gay.

The intellectual elite’s institutional rot

Michael Barone December 13, 2023 6:54 pm

Steven Rinella takes the MeatEater show on the road in Middle America

Salena Zito December 11, 2023 4:38 pm

Why Marco Rubio is wrong about China

Dan Hannan December 11, 2023 12:20 pm