On Tuesday night, America hosted its first slate of major elections in the Joe Biden era. The most-watched contest was the governor’s race in Virginia, but there were other consequential contests in the state as well as municipal-level elections in other states around the country. …

The 2020 election results were far from a mandate for a sweeping Democratic legislative agenda. — Many Democrats these days are understandably upset at the recent actions of two prominent senators, Joe Manchin (WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (AZ). The pair of centrists are working to significantly pare down — and even take entire chunks out of — Biden’s massive social spending programs in the “reconciliation bill.”…

And these attitudes are not exclusive to one side. — A new survey from the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shows that while there is general agreement among Americans of various political persuasions on several key policy matters, these issues are not what motivates many of them. Rather, for significant numbers of liberals and conservatives, their resentments toward/fears of…

Hey, folks! I’ve been messing around with the format of these posts for some time now, trying to determine the best way to continue sharing content I think is worth highlighting while taking into account my increasingly busy work and personal schedules. For now, I’ve decided to narrow this series…

The gut-wrenching images coming out of Afghanistan over the past several days have suddenly thrust American’s longest (and oft-forgotten) war back into the international spotlight. What has happened over there during the past two decades of war is extremely complicated, and I won’t pretend to be an expert of Afghanistan…

Signs point to “probably not.” — In the 2022 midterm elections, Missouri will host an election to replace retiring Republican U.S. Senator Roy Blunt. Normally, not many national political observers would give much thought to the race to succeed him. Given how red Missouri has become in recent years, most would probably assume the seat will…

One of the major COVID-related stories of recent weeks has been about how the slowing demand for the vaccine may be causing the U.S. to hit a wall on its way to achieving herd immunity. In fact, the New York Times published a somewhat alarmist-sounding piece this week, titled “Reaching…

Well, folks, it’s finally here: on Friday, North Carolina will be the first state in the nation to begin mailing absentee ballots to voters for the 2020 election. Polling has shown that a majority of Americans plan to vote early this year, either in person or by mail. …