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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

Tiana Lowe Doescher · November 3, 2026 11:49 pm

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

A Social Security card. U.S. Treasury note, and $100 bill lie atop an American flag.

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

Some may believe that Trump's favorable numbers could improve and make him more competitive. That hasn't happened so far. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

Donald Trump has won 37 percent. Hard to get to 270

Michael Barone March 20, 2016 4:17 am

Presidential race comes to AIPAC at a precarious time for U.S-Israel relations

Philip Klein March 20, 2016 4:01 am

White identity politics mixes very easily with a blood-and-soil conservatism, and Trump is playing to that expertly. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Immigration: the mother of all issues

Timothy P. Carney March 18, 2016 12:04 pm

Michael Barone: Only Ted Cruz can stop Donald Trump

Michael Barone March 16, 2016 8:57 pm

Protesters sing hymns during a Donald Trump rally in Hickory, N. C. (AP Photo/Ben Earp)

On Trump’s protesters, disruptors and censors

Timothy P. Carney March 16, 2016 3:25 pm

My intention was to visit the mosque, take a photo or two and, if the opportunity arose, ask a Muslim Ethiopian or two for their thoughts on Trump. But I never got the chance. (AP Photo)

A view of Trump, from East Africa

Daniel Allott March 15, 2016 8:33 pm

Trump, Clinton and Sanders' proposed reforms show an eye to ideals of the past. (AP Photos)

Will the politics of nostalgia trump the politics of the future?

Michael Barone March 14, 2016 8:54 pm

A migrant father with his child awaits on the Greek side of the border to enter Macedonia near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija on March 1. Macedonian is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Misdiagnosing the refugee crisis

Dan Hannan March 14, 2016 5:01 am

Former Secretary of State George Schultz and former California governor and U.S. Sen. Pete Wilson are from when politics was public service, not a full time career in the service of oneself. (AP Photos)

Schultz and Wilson: Two serious men for Republicans to emulate

Hugh Hewitt March 13, 2016 9:00 pm

Donald Trump has a long record of taking positions at odds with core conservative values. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

The Trump standard: Any past statements are off limits

Philip Klein March 11, 2016 6:14 am

"We have to fix it in the country just like we fixed it here in the state," said Ohio Gov. John Kasich. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Can Kasich woo Ohio voters from Trump’s base?

Timothy P. Carney March 10, 2016 8:40 pm

What’s next for Marco Rubio?

Ashe Schow March 10, 2016 6:00 am