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The new Congress will convene on Jan. 3, but will do so without one of its freshman members, Louisiana’s Luke Letlow, who died Tuesday night at a Shreveport hospital due to complications stemming from COVID-19. Letlow became the newest member of the state’s congressional delegation on Dec. 5 when he handily won a runoff against a fellow Republican to capture Louisiana’s sprawling, rural 5 th Congressional District that is also the nation’s second poorest district. Two weeks later, Letlow tested positive for the coronavirus and began isolating at home; he was then admitted to the hospi...

The New York Post published a striking cover editorial online on Sunday night and in print on Monday: “The Post Says: Give It Up, Mr. President—for Your Sake and the Nation’s.” The Post’s editorial board called on President Donald Trump to put aside his futile crusade to overturn the election for the sake of his legacy and encouraged him to focus on helping Republicans win the upcoming Senate runoffs in Georgia. The board also harshly criticized Trump’s enablers, calling attorney Sidney Powell a “crazy person” and deeming former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s sugg...

Post-holiday air travel hit new pandemic-era highs over the weekend as Americans boarded planes and crisscrossed the country following the Christmas holiday. The spike in air travel is an ominous sign for a country that continues to be the runaway global leader in new coronavirus cases and deaths while seeing a rising number of hospitalizations—three upward national trend lines that show no sign of flattening. The holiday travel, mixing strangers on planes and in airports with family members in households at each destination, surely won’t help. The Transportation Security Administration s...

The House voted Monday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, one of Trump’s final incoherent acts of chaos in the dying days of his presidency. The bill, a standard yearly reauthorization of military policy priorities and spending has managed bipartisan agreement and approval each year for the past 60 years, but was blocked by Trump this year despite overwhelming bipartisan support. Trump vetoed the authorization, ostensibly, because a number of his pet projects and pet peeves were omitted from the bill. The veto now requires two-thirds of bo...

Leading up to the Nov. 3 election in the United States, there were major concerns that President Donald Trump’s posture and rhetoric and the consistent social polarization he had engendered in the country since taking office would bubble to the surface, leading to major attacks or sustained violence on the streets. However, aside from a few incidents, largely related to protests, and despite Trump encouraging his supporters not to accept the results of the election, there has been a marked absence of election-related violence. This is, of course, good news and most analysts are happy to hav...