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Stossel: Magic cars

Politicians praise electric cars. If everyone buys them, they say, solar and wind power will replace our need for oil. But that's absurd. Here is the rest of my list of "inconvenient facts" about electric cars. "The future of the auto industry is electric," says President Joe Biden. He ...

Stiehm: Voters verdict — End of the Trump era

The country came to its senses last Tuesday, after a seven-year famine in our politics. The worst in our nature showed up in vulgar, violent and virulent former President Donald Trump. The hard-fought congressional midterms are a turning point in our civil strife. Election Day delivered a ...

Harrop: They voted big ‘D’ Democrats to save small ‘d’ democracy

Why did Democrats beat expectations that they'd get swamped on Election Day? Was it Republican attacks on abortion rights? Was it a misreading of how much the public blamed Democrats for inflation? And what about the role played by fear of crime and the perceived chaos at the border? It could ...

Harsanyi: Elon Musk is right. Divided government is best

Editor's note: Pat Buchanan is off. There are no saviors or miracles in democracy, only a grueling, soul-sucking, forever war of attrition. That is the enduring lesson of the 2022 midterms, as it is every election. And, though the results will be overinterpreted by pundits, and partisans will ...