My dad sent me a vat of olive oil from the village in Greece recently — by which I mean to say that he shipped it months ago, paying 30 euros to have it stacked on a slow boat from Piraeus by way of a company named after a Greek god. I had not ... Read More
For the last two years, the Trump administration has been governed by a simple mantra: "We can just do things." On Tuesday, voters replied, "So can we," and wiped out the GOP. This was not a blue wave. This was not a blue tsunami. This was the breaku... Read More
The headline item from last Tuesday's elections is that Democrats wiped out Republicans in the House and the Senate. Congratulations. But do our newly minted senators, with their terms ending in January 2033, realize that they will be the cohort of l... Read More
There are elections that deliver a warning, and elections that make the warning impossible to ignore. The 2026 midterms were the latter. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, and Republicans lost Senate seats in states they had every re... Read More
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