Right now, the voices speaking most clearly to the desire for at-home care are pronatalist and regressive, favoring traditional gender hierarchies to grow the population at all costs.

Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall (R) is defending President Trump’s decision to cancel his rally in the state, saying he can win without a visit from the president. “I think that I’m doing so well in the polls that he’s got, probably got better places to spend his time,” Marshall told reporters Thursday when asked for…

If candidates take benefit cuts off the table — or if they insist on taking taxes off the table, they are not leading; they are misleading you.

The Justice Department (DOJ) issued dozens of subpoenas in connection with the ballot stacking allegations against Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Peltola’s campaign was directly involved in recruiting someone with the same name as her opponent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R). The presence of a candidate…

The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, on Friday shifted a dozen more House races toward Democrats in the final stretch of the midterm cycle. The handicapper has shifted dozens of House races toward Democrats in recent weeks, and with the latest moves, it now forecasts more than 218 seats to “lean Democrat” or…

Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola (D) on Thursday again denied knowing anything about her campaign’s alleged recruitment of Dan J. Sullivan to challenge her GOP opponent, incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R), in an effort to dilute the incumbent’s vote share. “I just want to clear the air,” Peltola said during a speech in Juneau, Alaska,…

Democrats have a 10-point lead over Republicans on a generic congressional ballot, as the parties face off for control of Congress in next week’s midterm election.  An Emerson College Polling survey released Friday found Democrats broadly leading with 52 percent support over 42 percent support for the GOP. This is only slightly tighter than Democrats’…

Democrat Adam Hamilton is narrowly leading Republican Roger Marshall in the Kansas Senate race, according to a new poll. In the Emerson College Polling poll, 48.7 percent of respondents said they would cast their ballot or have already cast their ballot for Hamilton, while 45.2 percent said the same of Marshall. A Libertarian candidate garnered…

Politics may be a game, but the law is definitely not. Getting too cute in court almost always blows up in your face. 

President Trump is making one more in-person midterm push in the Sunshine State on Friday, a day after the Republican National Committee announced he was scratching his weekend rallies in Kansas and Iowa. Trump is set to speak in Daytona Beach, Fla., around 7 p.m. to vouch for Sen. Ashley Moody (R) in her race…

Americans may not much care who holds power in Jerusalem, but they should.

President Trump on Thursday snapped at a reporter who asked a question about whether his recent rally cancellations were related to his health or being sick of traveling. Trump was originally scheduled to travel to Salina, Kan., over the weekend to rally voters for Republican candidates, days ahead of the midterm elections. His in-person visit…

Mike Waltz needs to school Angie Nixon about Cuba.   Nixon, a Democrat aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America who is running to become a U.S. senator from Florida, recently showed extreme and perhaps willful ignorance about the communist country perched just 90 miles off her state’s coast.  When CBS News reporter Cristian Benavides asked…

Our current obsession with fake news really began 88 years ago.

Sen. Mark Kelly has emerged as a leading Democratic contender for the 2028 presidency following his recent involvement in a controversy regarding military obedience and his success in raising funds during the midterms.

Democrats are weeks away from the start of the next presidential primary — a contest many in the party have been eagerly anticipating since their devastating loss in the 2024 race. But the divisions that could shape the 2028 race are already on full display, even as Democrats look to make gains in the House…

The importance of AI data centers is growing this election cycle as the fight over the infrastructure’s costs and environmental impacts may be threatening Republicans in battleground states like Texas and Ohio. Grassroots movements in rural communities, particularly where President Trump won by double-digit margins in each of his presidential bids, are threatening the rural…

Elon Musk and his business’s role in a recent dispute over Ukraine’s access to Starlink and its military network is putting a spotlight on the tech mogul’s outsized influence on the international stage.  Following about 10 days of confusion and finger-pointing over what caused the slowdown of Starlink and its military-grade version — Starshield — in Ukraine, Musk acknowledged his company, SpaceX, was behind the restrictions on Starlink’s…

For younger voters, election-related corruption is less of a concern than for older generations.  Four percent of Gen Zers say they’re worried about election fraud and cheating ahead of the midterms, compared with 14 percent of millennials, 21 percent of Gen Xers and 23 percent of baby boomers, per a CBS/YouGov poll. The results also…

Senate Democrats are buying ads in South Carolina for the first time as polls show a close Senate contest in the deep-red state. Senate Majority PAC (SMP), the Senate Democrats’ main political action committee in the midterms, will spend $750,000 on digital ads in the Palmetto State on the race between Sen. Darline Graham (R)…