Connor O'Keeffe

As the midterms helped demonstrate, the post-covid inflation crisis and both parties' disinterest in actually solving it has put incumbents at a tremendous disadvantage. And that has become the defining political dynamic of the 2020s.

Trump's apparent willingness to restart his unpopular war with Iran after next week’s elections reveals a fundamental problem with modern mass democracy. And, in doing so, it helps clarify how public opinion actually affects government.

Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel may provide Americans a little relief from high energy prices. The same economic logic applies to the thousands of other sanctions Washington continues to enforce.