Both political parties in Washington can look at last week’s election results and find encouragement. Democrats who see their victories as a sign that Donald Trump will be a one-term president should ask Mitt Romney how that turned out for him after the Republican wave of 2010. There remain …

Republicans who are thinking about opposing President Trump in the 2020 primaries are facing the hardest of political choices.

Buried in the mounds of data fleshing out what happened in the midterm elections is an interesting take on blacks.

In the hierarchy of pleasures, schadenfreude ranks second only to dry martinis at dusk. So conservatives are enjoying Harvard’s entanglement with two things it has not sufficiently questioned — regulatory government and progressive sentiment. The trial that recently ended in Boston — the jud…

Just when you think there is no place left in this politically toxic, mudslinging, in-your-face world for any goodness, along comes 17-year-old Jordyn Moore, a teenager from Forsyth County, to happily prove us wrong.

In the first lecture of every Principles of Microeconomics course, we discuss the difference between a positive statement and a normative statement. The former is a statement of what is or is not, and the latter is a statement of what should be or should not be. A positive statement can be t…

It is Nov. 3, 1992, following a long night of tabulating, and all four major news networks are calling the election for incumbent U.S. Sen. Wyche Fowler (D-Georgia), when it becomes apparent that none of three candidates have received the required majority of 50 percent, plus one vote.

In a rebuke bordering on national insult Sunday, Emmanuel Macron retorted to Donald Trump’s calling himself a nationalist.

Did a “blue wave” crash over America last week? That was the question on pundits’ lips as election results were reported Tuesday night, into early and even mid-morning Wednesday. With the U.S. House going to Democrats, but a larger Senate majority in store for the GOP, it seemed like a split…

In the previous 50 years, the state of Mississippi has validated Lord Tennyson’s belief that “men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.” Now the state has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for 20 more days to provide the court with a defense of the proposition that a …

So now the United States has as its leaders two people who are totally incapable of leading a united nation.

America’s founders demonstrated that government is art, not science. The secret is in balance.

America’s body politic has recently been scarred by excruciating political shingles, and 2018 campaigning was equivalent to acid reflux. But Tuesday’s elections indicated that some political antibodies are strengthening the nation’s immune system.

Did former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg just take a page out of the playbook of Sen. Ed Muskie from half a century ago?

Because of a finite deadline, I won’t be commenting on the election results in Georgia until next week since some of you will see this before the election and some afterward.

I think it is a pretty safe bet that the economists at the Murphy Center love economics. We have come to learn and appreciate our chosen discipline’s principles and tenants that help us understand, explain and forecast all sorts of behavior and outcomes.

Fresh off the heels of exercising your right to vote as an American, you’ll have another opportunity tonight. You can make sure your elected officials hear your voice.

“Memo to the genius leaking info about Crystal City, VA as the #1 HQ2 selection. You’re not doing Crystal City any favors. And stop treating the NDA (non-disclosure agreement), you signed like a used napkin.” Tweet by Mike Grella, Amazon Director of Economic Development/Public Policy on Nov. 3.

As I write, we don’t yet know who will be Georgia’s next governor. This year’s race has been the most competitive in years, and by all indications there was a chance either Democrat Stacey Abrams or Republican Brian Kemp could come out on top in what has also been one of the most bitter elec…

George Mitchell, a former federal judge and Senate majority leader, was the chief negotiator of the Good Friday Agreement, which brought to a peaceable end 30 years of civil war in Northern Ireland.

“Libertarians believe that you should be as conservative or as liberal as you want to be as long as you don’t want to force yourself on others,” says Larry Sharpe, Libertarian candidate for governor of New York.

Here in the state’s southeast, which calls itself the Bootheel and nurses a genial distrust of Missouri’s metropolitan fleshpots (St. Louis, Kansas City), the loudspeaker is blasting out John Mellencamp’s “Small Town” as Josh Hawley’s cowboy boots alight from his campaign bus at this stop on…

President Donald Trump was right to tweet out: “There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true enemy of the people, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news honestly and fairly…

Saturday, in Pittsburgh, a Sabbath celebration at the Tree of Life synagogue became the site of the largest mass murder of Jews in U.S. history. Eleven worshippers were killed by a racist gunman.

As a public service, I want to share with you the latest political data in order to help you decide for whom to vote in next week’s elections. If you have already voted, hopefully it will confirm the wisdom of your decision or let you bang your head against the wall for being such a dimwit.

Three weeks ago, stock prices took a major pounding. President Trump blamed the Fed — that is, the Federal Reserve System.

“If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power...” President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919).

If you’re confused about the five proposed constitutional amendments on the Nov. 6 ballot, you’re not alone. The brief, vague descriptions on the ballot offer little explanation what exactly the amendments will do if approved by a majority of voters. The following is one man’s interpretation…