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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?

Any talk of securing the border with Mexico has been absent from Hillary Clinton's campaign speeches. (Getty Images file)

Trump on immigration? What about the Democrats’ problems?

Byron York August 24, 2015 6:49 pm

In this Aug. 18, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks with people at a town hall meeting in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Hillary’s security breach, and why it matters

Hugh Hewitt August 23, 2015 9:00 pm

Hillary Clinton had a combative run-in with Black Lives Matter activists after a campaign event in New Hampshire. (Screenshot/Good Magazine)

Hillary Clinton and #BlackLivesMatter: An unproductive confrontation

Michael Barone August 23, 2015 4:01 am

TedÂ Cruz did a 21-stop post-debate bus tour in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma, and saw growing audiences in each.Â (AP Photo)Â

With all attention on Trump, Ted Cruz rises in GOP race

Byron York August 20, 2015 11:01 pm

Hillary Clinton says what she thinks will make her look best, hoping nobody finds out the truth. (AP Photo)Â

The public doesn’t trust Hillary, for good reason

Timothy P. Carney August 20, 2015 9:30 pm

Rapper Sister Souljah talks to reporters during a news conference in New York, June 17, 1992. (AP Photo)Â

Hillary’s ‘Sister Souljah’ moment

W. James Antle III August 20, 2015 6:03 pm

Those involved with GamerGate have been fighting an uphill battle to get accurate representation in the media since the story began. (Screenshot from www.spjairplay.com)

Disrupting a false media narrative — what next?

Ashe Schow August 20, 2015 5:00 am

Given immigration's role in elevating Trump to a lead in Republican polls, his six-page immigration platform merits serious attention. (AP Photo)

Donald Trump’s half-serious, half-fantasy immigration plan

Michael Barone August 19, 2015 10:33 pm

Members of Arkansas Democracy Coalition and other groups rally at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, May 19, 2015. Speakers at the rally called for a constitutional amendment to overturn the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Economic liberty, free speech, spook the American Left

Timothy P. Carney August 18, 2015 8:42 pm

Republican Presidential candidate and business mogul Donald Trump shakes hands with local police during his trip to the border on July 23, 2015 in Laredo, Texas. (Photo by Matthew Busch/Getty Images)

With new plan, Trump blows up 2016 immigration debate

Byron York August 18, 2015 2:49 am

When illegal immigrants elbow aside those who have queued patiently and those judged to be victims of repression, Leftists demand that they be allowed to stay.Â (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

What drives left-wing immigration policy?

Dan Hannan August 17, 2015 2:01 pm

Sanders has long styled himself a Socialist and seeks income redistribution; Corbyn wants government ownership of railroads and coal mines; and both look with favor on 90 percent tax rates. (AP)

The strange death of the center-left

Michael Barone August 17, 2015 4:01 am