Tim Donner

No one who lived through it will ever forget Nov. 22, 1963, that day of infamy when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was the story of the century. Few will remember that, on that same day, legendary author and theologian C.S. Lewis also died, a story that would have ordinarily attracted front-page attention was relegated to a footnote on the back pages. The point is that timing is everything, and so it was with a speech for the ages delivered by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the Republican Midterm Convention on Sept. 10.

The Sky is falling – again! We are all going to die! We must screech the brakes on – let's see (checks notes) – artificial intelligence.

From the moment Donald Trump made his grand entrance onto the political stage, one of the primary lines of attack against the bombastic outsider, among countless others, is that he “is only out for himself.” In fact, that was a core message of Democrats across the land and prominent commercials for both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that aired thousands of times during the 2024 presidential campaign. Biden/Harris care about the working man and woman, while Trump only seeks his own glory. It was a bookend narrative to Trump's famously successful ad tying Harris to a purple-haired freak depicted as they/them, while Trump is for you.

Why is the MAGA President all lovey-dovey with a communist and a socialist?

The need for compromise and bipartisanship may have been inherent in the vision of the framers who authored the US Constitution, but 250 years after the nation's founding, consensus has all but disappeared amid the most bitter political divisions between the GOP and Democrats in decades. No matter the issue, if an executive order is signed or a bill is supported by President Donald Trump, the Dems would put their entire political future on the line by supporting it, and the reverse holds equally true. That is why there ought to be banner headlines following the Senate's passage this week of the Protect College Sports Act.

Have we simply flushed or forgotten recent history? We all know the cost of living is, as the famed New York political gadfly Jimmy McMillan put it, too damn high.

The GOP is doubling down on a brilliant strategy – from 2024. Many or most observers on both sides of the aisle called it the turning point in the 2024 presidential race.

If you are not yet familiar with him, you will be soon. After spending years as a backbench Democratic senator from Georgia, Jon Ossoff has suddenly transformed into one of the most talked-about potential candidates for president in 2028. The 39-year-old Democrat is turning heads with his rapid rise from obscurity. He is seeking re-election to the upper chamber of Congress and holds a commanding lead over Republican Mike Collins with Election Day fast approaching. And he had something of a breakout moment in recent days when he graced the cover of

As voters prepare to cast their ballots in the final push to Midterm Election Day, with 470 House and Senate races across the land, it is easy to lose focus on the big picture. Seats will flip both ways, and the composition of both chambers of Congress will change, but beyond the headlines of which party retains or seizes control of the House and Senate, how different will America look once all the ballots are counted and the dust has settled?

It has become in most circles almost a foregone conclusion that the Democrats are primed to seize control of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate come November 3. Considering longstanding historical trends favoring the out party in midterm elections, President Trump's sub-40% approval rating, and the stubbornly high cost of living, it is entirely unsurprising to see widespread predictions of a blue wave. The question now is whether the outcome is already baked in, or if the pollsters are in for a surprise. Is there something that might plausibly arise in the less than two weeks remaining before Election Day, any element about the electorate that might not have been properly incorporated into the widespread analysis of voter preferences?