America Slowly Learns to Live With Covid Shots are an achievement but not a miracle, and other realities with which we’re coming to terms.

We’re in a funny place with the Covid pandemic. It feels like it’s ending. Its ability to govern our lives is, certainly. Lockdowns and shutdowns ran out of steam; people have returned to life or are returning. At the same time we know we’re not at the end. We read the headlines—infections flare here, hospitals […]

Voters Give Democrats a Woke-Up Call Will the party recognize its mistake in embracing extremism? Will the GOP prove worthy of its wins?

‘Took my first DC trip yesterday since pre-COVID. Union Station mostly deserted, hardly any stores/restaurants open. 2 homeless guys hanging out & begging in the seating area at Sbarro’s. Real ‘decline of the republic’ vibe in the building. The election results didn’t surprise me.”—the Week columnist Damon Linker on Twitter Wednesday “What a weird thing […]

Can Slidin’ Biden Regain His Footing? Clinton and Obama both overcame adversity, but the 46th president doesn’t have their political gifts.

In a way Republicans have already won in Virginia. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former governor and longtime party mover, has been forced to fight for his life in a state Joe Biden won by 10 points. If Mr. McAuliffe pulls it out Tuesday, his not-so-Trumpy challenger, Glenn Youngkin, will still have come close in the […]

Dave Chappelle May Help Tame Wokeness There are other signs, too, that our revolution may be moving past its Terror and toward its Thermidor.

Captain Kirk was in space. “I hope I never recover from this,” William Shatner said after the capsule set down in scrub near Van Horn, Texas. He’d seen the blueness, the thin ribbon of earth’s atmosphere, the delicacy and majesty. “I hope I can maintain what I feel now, I don’t want to lose it,” […]

Progressives Hold the Capital Captive Biden turns out to be far less moderate than advertised, and voters aren’t liking what they see.

Washington Our capital is greatly diminished compared with its old crackling pre-pandemic, pre-George Floyd self. It is quieter, less bustling, drabber. A lot of government employees are still working at home, and you can feel it in the air, the sense that the federal government is coming out of everyone’s dining room. It was my […]

Will Biden’s Fall Be Worse Than His Summer? From the Afghan debacle to his economic overreach, the White House has ample reason for alarm.

The White House should be feeling alarm. It hasn’t been a good summer for the president, and it isn’t looking to be a good fall. The manner and timing of the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a catastrophe that left Americans infuriated and ashamed. The president’s statements and interviews in the aftermath were highly unsuccessful. The […]

What Milley Got Right—and Wrong His preoccupation with his own image points to a larger problem, though his talk with Li was justified.

Two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol assault, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, placed an urgent call “on a top secret, back-channel line,” to his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng. This is from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book, “Peril.” Gen. Milley believed Gen. Li and others in the […]