The battle for Los Angeles drags on
Forty-eight hours since the polls closed, LA has managed to count a whopping 40 percent of the votes
Donald Trump, accidental Paul Revere
No one has done more to alert us to the perils of a demagogic cult leader
J.D. Vance was practically destined to win Ohio
The author turned senator was clear on policies that mattered to swing voters
Don’t expect the midterms to change our foreign policy
More defense spending, pushing out Putin — this is a bipartisan consensus
Massachusetts Republicans pay the price for Trumpism
They chose ideological purity in a deep blue state, handing Democrats one-party rule
Pro-lifers were the midterms’ biggest losers
Hardline abortion restrictions are not a vote-winner for Republicans
How Fetterman appealed to a suffering Pennsylvania
People are desperate and they’re looking for a quick, easy fix
What I learned making calls for Democrats and Republicans
A conservative goes undercover on the Fetterman campaign
Scoop: top GOP donors to meet in Miami in plot to stop Trump
Plus: Boris Johnson’s peculiar Lords’ list and a helping hand from Red Scare’s Dasha
WATCH: Germans are dancing to stay warm this winter
Just four years after laughing at Trump
Hurricane Nicole backs Ron DeSantis over Trump
She spared DeSantis’s election only to unleash vengeance on Tiffany Trump’s wedding
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Books and Arts
The White Lotus is a comic feast for the ‘eat the rich’ generation
A hit show for those who prefer their billionaires medium-rare
Elections are always better in the movies
Reality, alas, will always struggle to improve on fiction
Is this Tom Stoppard’s last act?
If Leopoldstadt does not convince the theatergoing public, then what will?
From the magazine
The heart of The Rings of Power
Amazon’s Tolkien adaptation does justice to the aesthetics as well as the ethics of his world
What kind of king will Charles III be?
The early signs are that kingship suits the new monarch
The West is on the road to energy ruin
Green policies have crippled Europe. They will do the same to America
Serving up a Half Baked Harvest feast
Cooking for my family that night was typically chaotic
The radical alternative to a hospital birth
Some women are forgoing medical care entirely and giving birth at home unassisted
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