Republicans have good reason to worry about their prospects in the 2026 midterm elections after a string of recent defeats. GOP losses in the recent New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races, Miami’s mayoral election, and the contest for a previously Republican-held Georgia state House seat that went Democratic made for tough election nights as 2025 […]

After 15 years of Republican railing against the Affordable Care Act, GOP lawmakers have it on the ropes. But four House Republicans are trying to help prop it up. The Republican quartet joined Democrats Dec. 17 to force a House vote on a straight three-year extension of the enhanced Obamacare tax credits, which will expire […]

There’s a small and unremarkable park in a suburb just south of Dublin‘s city center, surrounded by modest semidetached homes and featuring a basketball court and a soccer pitch. A proposal to rename Chaim Herzog Park in Rathgar has become the nexus of a long-standing spat between Ireland and Israel, and a headache for the […]

The new psychological thriller starring Sydney Sweeney, The Housemaid, is one of those movies that is more interesting to talk around than about. In the film, Millie (Sweeney) is hired on as a live-in housemaid for a wealthy Long Island family, boarding in their #cottagecore aesthetic attic. The danger of being so young and blonde […]