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In Michigan, the Democratic Party now holds both Senate seats, all statewide executive offices and both chambers of the State Legislature. Part of that, Lavora Barnes, Michigan’s Democratic Party state chairwoman, told me, is that the Republican Party became so extreme that it scared off many of its traditional voters….

Bret Stephens: Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving, Gail. Peggy Noonan had a terrific column last week in The Wall Street Journal, making the case for why Taylor Swift should be Time’s person of the year. Aside from the fact that her Eras tour transformed the economy of many of…

Two workers have been detained in northern China after local authorities said they plowed through a section of the country’s Great Wall with an excavator, leaving a gaping hole. The pair, a 38-year-old man and 55-year-old-woman, caused “irreversible damage” when they used the construction equipment to widen an existing gap…

Perhaps it goes without saying, but dealing with a terminal illness like dementia often feels desperately sad — a steady march toward an inevitable demise. It’s easy to feel sorry for yourself, to focus on everything you’re losing. If you’re not careful, it will consume you. Finding a way to…

There is one thing a president can do when Congress is an ungovernable mess, polling numbers are blinking red and crises abroad show no signs of resolving themselves. And that thing is: get out of town. President Biden traveled to New York on Wednesday to headline three fund-raisers, where he…