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Social Security benefits

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?

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An eleventh-hour GOP surge, or a looming blue blowout?

Guy Benson October 30, 2026 5:45 am

Inside sleeve of "Proud Pumpkin" book.

More than a page: How a simple story can shape a childhood

Salena Zito October 29, 2026 4:07 pm

Republican candidate Mike Rogers's campaign office.

Why Detroit holds the key to Michigan’s Senate seat

Salena Zito October 29, 2026 1:24 pm

Collage from left to right: Donald Trump, Abdul el Sayed, and JD Vance

Trump, Vance, and the ‘jihadist’ el Sayed

Byron York October 28, 2026 6:19 pm

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Democrats caught in Alaska ‘Decoy Dan’ lie

Timothy P. Carney October 28, 2026 3:46 pm

Independence Day July 4

Echoes of 1776 in today’s divisive politics

Michael Barone October 28, 2026 2:13 pm

Abdul el Sayed.

El Sayed and the art of conning voters

Hugo Gurdon October 28, 2026 6:00 am

Gov. Josh Shapiro at a campaign rally in Beaver, Pennsylvania.

Josh Shapiro promises restraint as Democrats eye a Pennsylvania sweep

Salena Zito October 27, 2026 3:08 pm

PHILADELPHIA- U.S. Senator David McCormick hosted the inaugural Pennsylvania Red Tape Dialogues last week at Temple University in Philadelphia with the goal of bringing together C-suite executives, small business owners, policy experts, and federal/state regulators to identify and eliminate burdensome government regulations. (credit Sen. McCormick's office)

McCormick takes on Pennsylvania’s red tape, one binder at a time

Salena Zito October 26, 2026 4:08 pm

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Another 2026 polling wrinkle

Guy Benson October 26, 2026 1:43 pm

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.

The logic behind Trump’s ‘pretend I’m on the ballot’ appeal

Byron York October 25, 2026 9:08 pm

President Donald Trump touches his ear as he talks about the noise from the new ballroom construction before a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 2, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The closing economic pitch Republicans are too scared to make

Tiana Lowe Doescher October 24, 2026 8:03 am