Author Archives: Bill McCarthy

El-Sayed Won the Primary. Michigan Is a Different Animal.

Abdul El-Sayed just captured the Democratic nomination for Senate in Michigan. The progressive former public [...]

The Left’s Alito Obsession Meets Reality

The left cannot stop talking about Justice Samuel Alito’s retirement. Every rumor, every health scare, [...]

Elon Just Ordered Up the Biggest Factory America Has Ever Seen

Elon Musk does not do modest. Tesla and SpaceX have locked in plans for Terafab, [...]

Trump Tries Again on Birthright—This Time With a Scalpel Instead of a Sledgehammer

President Trump’s first attempt to end birthright citizenship went down in flames at the Supreme [...]

Follow the Money—It Tells You More Than the Polls

Polls bounce. Partisans cherry-pick them. A better early thermometer is where the national party committees [...]

Mark Warner’s Long Goodbye Tour

Mark Warner has occupied a Senate seat from Virginia since 2009. He wants another six [...]

Hasan Piker Is Electoral Poison—and Democrats Keep Drinking It (salty language alert)

Hasan Piker is a socialist Twitch streamer with a large young audience. Progressive candidates court [...]

AIPAC’s Democratic Romance Is Hitting the Rocks

For decades the American Israel Public Affairs Committee treated Democrats as reliable partners. It spent [...]

The Numbers Don’t Lie—America’s Demographic Reality

The United States is home to tens of millions of people born elsewhere. Distinguishing legal [...]

Trump Just Crowns Vance in Private—and the 2028 Race Just Got a Lot Clearer

President Trump sat down with donors in the Oval Office about two weeks ago and [...]