Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets, where we are still running through the fallout from election night. Today we look at prediction market claims that the people are now effectively in charge of calling races, usurping a small elite who jealously guarded that power. Plus we speak to a Kalshi trader who made hundreds […]

WEB HEADLINE: ‘A Talent for Murder’ stars Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith A Talent for Murder is a movie that cried out to be made for a very simple reason: Helen Mirren is capable of looking, sounding, moving, and behaving just like Patricia Highsmith. That Mirren delivers a good performance here — subtle, engaging, full […]

Washington Examiner economics columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher argued that President Donald Trump didn’t lose the midterm elections because of the war in Iran itself, but because he failed to bring it to an end, contributing to economic turmoil across the U.S. “The midterms were not lost because of Iran,” Doescher said on Newsmax’s The Right […]

Washington Examiner investigations editor Sarah Bedford said Republicans must now grapple with who will lead their new minority after the party’s massive losses in midterm elections. “I think that there’s a lot of interest in Jim Jordan here,” Bedford said Wednesday on The Hugh Hewitt Show. “I mean, [Steve] Scalise was part of the House […]