New Orleans The headline may be that the Senate is increasingly Republican, seeming to have picked up a couple of seats, and the House has seen the Democrats take control, picking up at least twenty-six seats, but that’s only part of the story. When we move from the partisan divisions to look at some of …
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No Matter What Happens on Election Day, there are Some Encouraging Signs
New Orleans On the balcony of our office with a slight breeze on an unseasonably warm day, we talked about elections scheduled for 2019 in Albania and Bulgaria. Earlier in the day I had forwarded an article from the Journal to colleagues in France and Cameroon about the months every year that the longtime …
Too Close to Call Brings on the Dread
New Orleans For all of us who lived through the 2016 election, seeing headlines in the paper the day before the midterm elections warning that it is “too close to call,” brings forward feelings somewhere between dread and total depression, along with quick mental notes on how to prepare for the apocalypse. The major pollsters, …