Opinion

There are plenty of variables when writing campaign strategies. But one thing that you can’t control is time. How often have we heard losing candidates complain, “If we’d only had another week?”   But Election Day is fixed and finite and every politician must adhere to that reality — including the president.   Right now, looking at […]

What’s next? Asking how many jelly beans are in the jar? That was a question election workers, particularly in the South, used to ask voters. Not surprisingly, Black voters, who wanted simply to exercise their rights as American citizens to cast a ballot, always managed to guess wrong. How many bubbles in a bar of […]

Doug Graham was a hell of a photographer, but he was also that rarest of things: A fully realized human being. He was serious about his job and his craft, working at both CQ and Roll Call and then the combined CQ Roll Call until 2014, helping launch Loudoun Now and winning an Emmy for […]

Last September, I wrote a column called “Why Republicans still need to close the deal on the BBB.”  One year after the bill dubbed “The Big Beautiful Bill Act” was signed into law, Republicans still have more work to do to sell their signature accomplishment to voters.   Despite the attacks coming from the usual suspects, […]

The image went viral, and you can see why: a lone Black woman, sitting on a Washington, D.C., Metro train, surrounded by members of Patriot Front. She is the only one showing her face, wearing an expression both calm and wary. You don’t exactly know what the rest are thinking, since their bodies are covered […]

Last week, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani rocked a crowd celebrating the victory of democratic socialist candidates over establishment — if liberal — Democratic Party candidates.   He declared that “We are showing that last June, a year ago tomorrow [his primary win], was not an anomaly. It was not the end. It was the beginning.”   But […]

While Bay Area coders and Ivy League grads dominate the headlines about artificial intelligence (AI), it is miners and construction workers who will create and maintain the data centers and the energy grid that unlock American innovation. Our country’s AI infrastructure requires electricians to wire the facilities, welders to assemble the systems, plumbers to install […]

If you’ve ever watched a great film or sat in a theater and been completely transported, you’ve seen what this industry can do at its best. It’s something we’re proud of. But behind that experience isn’t just glamour, it’s a workforce made up largely of middle-class Americans doing practical, often unpredictable work. Most people in […]

This Friday at midnight, while the American military may very well be trading fire once again with Iran, the single most productive foreign intelligence collection authority in the U.S. government’s arsenal will expire.  Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the law that lets our government collect communications of foreign terrorists, spies and […]

I’m always astonished when I hear political consultants cling to the notion that winning majorities in the House and the Senate is only about turning out the base. Neither party — neither MAGA nor the progressive left — have the numbers to make that claim anymore. For the doubters out there, according to the Edison […]