The future of Republican policy related to abortion and the Make America Healthy Again agenda in the next Congress largely hinges on whether Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) can manage to win reelection in Kansas. Marshall, who is running for reelection against Democrat megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton, has been a leading voice on healthcare policy as […]

Ohio’s gubernatorial race has descended into an extraordinary exchange of personal attacks, with Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton digging into each other’s pasts in a bitter contest that has left voters without a debate ahead of Election Day. The mudslinging reached a new level in October, when Ramaswamy’s campaign released an advertisement featuring […]

It only weighs about a pound when you first pick it up, and yet Chuck Klosterman’s book Rock* was hard to lift when I went back to it. It grew heavier and heavier. It became a brick, then an anvil. Klosterman is one of my favorite nonfiction writers — our leading Gen X pop-culture critic. […]

Democrats are poised to combat President Donald Trump’s tariffs if they win congressional majorities in the midterm elections. While they are unlikely able to get Trump to sign bills undoing his own agenda, they could force Republicans to take difficult votes on the tariffs, from which they have been shielded thus far by GOP leadership. […]