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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

Salena Zito · November 3, 2026 9:34 am

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?

Collage of Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Extremist Democrats boosted by corrupt Republicans

Ex-Im financing is supposed to "fill financing gaps due to the lack of available commercial financing." (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Here’s the corporate welfare agency Hillary wants to put ‘on steroids’

Timothy P. Carney January 19, 2016 10:00 pm

If Cruz carries Iowa and Trump wins New Hampshire, it may be a very long slog to 1,236 delegates. (AP photo/Chuck Burton)

Get ready for a long slog to the GOP nomination

Hugh Hewitt January 18, 2016 2:56 pm

The German state lacks the resources to protect its female citizens from sexual assailants, but it has the resources to prosecute people who insult the assailants. (AP Photo)

Multicultural appeasement in Cologne

Dan Hannan January 18, 2016 5:01 am

The Republican race heats up while Hillary Clinton falters

Michael Barone January 18, 2016 5:01 am

Initial thoughts on the Fox Business Republican debate

Michael Barone January 15, 2016 5:22 am

President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall style event McKinley Senior High School in Baton Rouge, La., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Obama came to win elections and talk trash — and he’s all out of elections

Timothy P. Carney January 14, 2016 11:56 pm

"Now I have many disagreements with Hillary Clinton. And one of them is, I don't think it's good enough to talk the talk on campaign finance reform, you have to walk the walk," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. (AP Photo/John Locher)

What the Clinton v. Sanders tax fight reveals about liberalism

Philip Klein January 14, 2016 9:49 pm

Sanders' statement that police need to be put back in charge of what are actually felonies is welcome. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Rubio should follow Sanders’ lead on campus sexual assault

Ashe Schow January 14, 2016 6:00 am

"I've brought millions and millions of people to the Republican Party, and to the conservative party." Trump said television news ratings were proof of his success, but added that the GOP and the right were benefiting too. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Conservatism according to Donald Trump

W. James Antle III January 14, 2016 5:01 am

"We need a president that can find common ground and stand their ground." (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

American exceptionalism — how has it fared in the Obama years?

Michael Barone January 13, 2016 10:43 pm

"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," President Obama said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Partisan Obama was never the man to unite America

W. James Antle III January 13, 2016 11:47 am

If President Obama were interested in honest self-criticism in his final State of the Union address, he would admit that he failed on this central promise. In fact, Obama totally abandoned the idea, if he ever believed in it at all. (AP Photo)

Eight years later: Obama’s broken promise on the revolving door

Timothy P. Carney January 12, 2016 9:45 pm