by Doyle McManus Last year, as congressional elections approached, pundits offered a bold prediction: November would bring a “red wave,” a Republican sweep in the House and Senate. “The bottom is dropping out for Democrats,” a CNN analyst declared ...
People speak of a new year as turning the page, or starting out fresh, or forgetting the past. At the start of a new year, I like to look back a century ago to see what has changed and what hasn’t. In 1923, America had finally recovered from the Spanish flu, which killed 675,000 in ...
by Carl P. Leubsdorf Last year’s column successfully predicted Democratic Senate gains and a smaller-than-expected Republican House takeover. Here is our not-totally-serious forecast for 2023: JANUARY — Rep. Kevin McCarthy falls six votes short of 218 in House speaker election ...