In the Star Wars prequel films, Anakin is an impressionable young man who is tricked by a cackling, elderly tyrant into ...

A modern reader looks at the title of Jane Austen’s 1811 novel, Sense and Sensibility, and sees two words that mean pretty much the same thing. But to readers in Austen’s time, they were opposites.

When The Argument and Split Ticket did our final pre-election update of our 2026 midterm model, we projected an 11-point Democratic advantage among likely voters. That was among the most bullish ...

Throughout the night, the hosts — Jerusalem Demsas, Lakshya Jain, Nate Silver, Galen Druke, and Matt Yglesias — were ...

If you went into a coma and just woke up, congratulations. You just missed the tsunami of the century. Not since the Watergate midterms of 1974 has an incumbent party been routed this comprehensively.

Welcome to Mad Libs. This is an irregular debate column where our columnists, contributors, and staff writers (or even you, dear reader) can duke it out over the big ideas we’re discussing in the ...

As Election Day approaches, Republicans are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately for them, that light increasingly resembles an oncoming train. The House has long been ...

The topline finding from The Argument’s latest national poll of 1,549 registered voters, conducted Oct. 21-23, is that ...

Mbappé Greetings, readers of The Argument. This edition of The Weekly Scroll is coming to you from France, where I’ve been ...

On Thursday night, The Argument’s Lakshya Jain was joined by Nate Silver, Matthew Yglesias, and Galen Druke to discuss the ...