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Print this article Despite Ohio crucially sending Barack Obama to the White House twice, it voted for his presidential successor Donald Trump with a margin of over 8 points in both his successful 2016 election and his 2020 failure. Sherrod Brown earned Democrats its first Senate seat in nearly a decade with his 2006 victory, but his lead shrunk from 12 points to the single digits in subsequent reelections. Ohio can reasonably expect that Rob Portman, the outgoing senator who won his reelection by more than 20 points, will be replaced by a fellow Republican. Given President Joe Biden's razor...

I think I accumulated my first 10 thoughts for our tenth anniversary online. I hope I'll have one big one or 20 new ones in honor of our twentieth anniversary next year, but in the meantime I'm going to borrow from previous editions to note the occasion today. It was 19 years ago this weekend -- 19 years ago today, I think, but maybe tomorrow -- that John Hinderaker went

That's a harm that's way to answer that question, i give that to you. tim, political reporting opposition to the january 6th commission. it's heartening among senate republicans. your colleague at the bulwark, jonathan last, asking if democrats are willing to kill the filibuster over the one six commission, then what would it take? i have to tell you, tim, mr. rob portman, republican of ohio, vehemently objected to our characterization of his approach last night aggressively insisting he is undecided. he's important, obviously, because foreign relations and homeland security. if he votes for t...

AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu This isn’t science, Jonathan Last notes correctly. It’s the blue-state version of the COVID culture war. With a dash of pandemic-era neuroticism about safety and security thrown in. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a moderate Republican, lifted the state’s outdoor mask mandate last week in accordance with the CDC’s new guidance. Whether you’re vaccinated or not, the agency said, it’s fine to take off your mask outside so long as you keep your distance from strangers. Baker signed off on that, at which point local leaders in Brookline said: No thanks. “O...

Tweet She’s exaggerating, but only just. The country recorded — no typo — 386,452 cases of COVID today, a figure universally seen as a gross underestimate of the true number of infections due to the lack of testing in certain areas. The health-care system there is so crushed that retired medical professionals are being asked to come back to work to help India cope. Crematoriums and cemeteries are overwhelmed. Supplemental oxygen is scarce. Hospitals don’t have empty beds. Vaccines are so hard to come by that India is actually *closing* vax centers in the midst of a national emergenc...