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The arrival of divided government

Byron York · November 4, 2026 2:56 am

Collage of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, President Donald Trump, and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).

Maybe don’t bully your own Senate majority out of existence

Independent Nebraska Senate candidate Dan Osborn, center, speaks at an election night watch party at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Omaha La Vista Hotel & Conference Center in La Vista, Neb., Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Bonnie Ryan)

On Election Day, the devil is in the ballot details

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed speaks during a campaign rally.

Michigan race ends with acrimony and funky polls — again

Haley Stevens, left, and Mike Rogers, right, laugh together.

Michigan Democrats’ unity campaign ends in divorce

Donald Trump had a 52-point lead over Ted Cruz while Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders by 48 points. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Trump and Clinton crusade to rein in the First Amendment

Timothy P. Carney March 29, 2016 11:23 pm

The growth of international jurisdiction since the early 1990s has been extraordinary. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic, File)

Justice and jurisdiction

Dan Hannan March 28, 2016 4:03 am

What could happen Wednesday night, July 20th, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Brokering a convention

Hugh Hewitt March 27, 2016 9:41 pm

Looking over the election returns, it seems that Donald Trump's support comes disproportionately from those with low social connectedness. (AP Photo)

Does lack of social connectedness explain Trump’s appeal?

Michael Barone March 27, 2016 12:00 pm

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan speaking at a campaign event in Green Bay, Wis. in October of 2012. Ryan today is totally correct that Ryan back then was totally wrong. (AP)

Romney-Ryan ‘makers vs. takers’ rhetoric helped spawn Donald Trump

Timothy P. Carney March 25, 2016 12:44 am

Earlier Tuesday, more than 20 Senate Democrats sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson calling for a change in the refugee-vetting policy. (AP Photo)

DHS info-sharing ‘open for business’

Charlie Mitchell March 24, 2016 6:39 pm

Sex-related crimes are the only ones in which accusers and victims are not named but the accused often are. (AP Photo/Brian Ray, Pool)

We should stop naming people accused of sexual assault

Ashe Schow March 24, 2016 5:00 am

Trump vs. Cruz splits GOP

W. James Antle III March 24, 2016 4:01 am

Both Trump and Kasich register 33 percent support in the CBS News Battleground Tracker poll. (AP photos)

Michael Barone: A vote for Kasich is a vote for Trump

Michael Barone March 23, 2016 9:51 pm

At the 2012 convention, objections were loud and furious. Reince Priebus called the vote. The "Ayes" were audible, but the "Nays" were overwhelming. (AP File Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The first rule of the GOP convention is that there are no rules

Timothy P. Carney March 22, 2016 9:39 pm

To say Ted Cruz's prior career has not been run on the lines of "bring us together" misstates the problem by half. (AP Photo)

Choose to unite

Noemie Emery March 22, 2016 4:01 am

President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron shake hands at a bilateral meeting during the G-7 summit in Schloss Elmau hotel near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany. On June 23, Britain will vote on whether to recover her independence. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama should exit the ‘Brexit’ debate

Dan Hannan March 21, 2016 4:02 am