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Jamaal Bowman's loss was the Democrats' gain. A member of the left-fringe Squad, his primary defeat removes at least one irritant to the Democrats' quest to take control of the House. And if his replacement with a moderate marks the beginning of the ...

MILWAUKEE-Republicans have nominated a hillbilly for vice president. This, by his own admission. Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance is the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a New York Times bestseller. He is also a United States Marine who graduated from Ohio State ...

California's fierce political battle over crime and retail theft faces a key test this week as divided Democrats in the legislature address efforts by Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies to undermine a public-safety ballot initiative. The ballot ...

The 2023 Nashville Covenant School murders understandably received massive news coverage when they occurred. The fight over obtaining the murderer's diary also received news attention. But when "nearly four dozen pages" of the murderer's diary were ...

This week marks 50 years since Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace in response to Watergate, the first and only sitting president to step down. The term Watergate itself, especially its suffix "-gate," has become synonymous with sleaze. The scandal ...

Taxpayer-funded PBS is inaccurately branded as the fairest, most unemotional TV news outlet. Anyone looking at PBS right after President Joe Biden's disastrous debate would have realized they were more favorable to Biden than anyone else. They ...

Kamala Harris's sudden ascendancy within the Democrat Party, with nary a peep from other ambitious Democrats, spotlights the uncomfortable contradictions of identity politics and the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement. Americans ...

It's funny how journalists admit Vice President Kamala Harris is getting a media honeymoon, and then deny it means anything. Ben Smith at Semafor sent an email noting "Republican fury" at the gushy pro-Kamala bias and claiming, "But who are we, and ...

On July 15, the opening day of the Republican convention, federal judge Aileen Cannon dismissed special counsel Jack Smith's indictments of former President Donald Trump for misuse of classified documents. Legal arguments aside, it cast a shadow over ...

We all know that this election will be different than any other election we've had in recent decades - how could it not be? This is a 100-day campaign through Election Day, and a 45-day campaign until early voting begins. The dynamics are ...