Donald Trump demanded five new House seats in Texas, but Republican mapmakers mistook cartography for political consent and now face an electorate refusing to follow their lines.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The mechanics of democracy are often less about grand speeches and more about the tedious paperwork required to cast a vote.
By Tom Beckwith ·
I spent my morning reading market comments—the kind that tell you if the ground is fertile or just dry dust, if the price reflects what the harvest actually needs to be.
By Ruth Behrens ·
The first thing you learn when you spend decades tracking the numbers—the BLS releases, the payroll reports, the county employment series—is that nothing is ever simple.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
The people closest to the ground know more than the people writing the rules from Washington D.C., or indeed, from any high-rise law office where the only thing being held hostage…
By Ruth Behrens ·
The smell of disinfectant is always strongest right before a system fails. It’s that antiseptic scent—a false promise of cleanliness over something deeply soiled.
By Josie Calloway ·
The political theater unfolding in Ohio this week—a clash between allegations of domestic abuse, campaign survivalism, and presidential platitudes—is less a news story about…
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
The news cycle loves a good windfall, and nothing sells an immediate narrative like $748 million on the line for Powerball.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The American political system, it seems, is perpetually held hostage by personal crises.
By Klaus Berger ·
The American political landscape has become increasingly adept at conflating personal misfortune with systemic failure.
By Tom Beckwith ·
There is a certain kind of American theater that has nothing to do with policy or the economy; it concerns itself entirely with reputation—the delicate, load-bearing structure of personal character.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The sheer spectacle of Washington politics these days is exhausting—a carnival of grievances played out in court filings rather than on the trading floor.
By Bram de Vries ·
The performance staged by Ohio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, this week was less about protecting Haitian lives and more about demonstrating the enduring power of state…
By Maya Ellison ·
The defining feature of American economic history has always been the establishment of a foundational utility—be it canals, railroads, or, most recently, electricity grids.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The American commitment to the rule of law is routinely tested when Washington decides who gets to stay and who must go. This week, U.S.
By Grant Colby ·