Byron York

One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a frenzy of speculation about who will get the unfortunate important person's job.

A number of Republican leaders who played key roles in the events of the last decade and beyond — who shaped the Senate as we know it today — are

Byron York is chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner. Email him at [email protected].

the government of the United States as it was created in the Constitution. They want to destroy the U.S. capitalist economy, the most powerful in the world. And they want to destroy the way millions of Americans live their lives. The DSA's astonishingly destructive goals are laid out clearly in the organization's just-released 2026

Byron York is chief political correspondent for The Washington Examiner. Email him at [email protected] . For a deeper dive into many of

A RENEWED WAR MEANS RENEWED GOP MIDTERM WORRIES. In the last week, the war in Iran has seemed like a war again, after a long time in a gray area that was neither war nor peace.

One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a frenzy of speculation about who will get the unfortunate important person’s job. So it…

THE UNKNOWN DARLINE GRAHAM. South Carolina Republican Gov. Henry McMaster took very little time to choose Darline Graham , the sister of Sen.

As the Iran war escalates and U.S. casualties mount, Republicans fear voter backlash in the midterms amid rising gas prices and broad disapproval of Trump's war strategy.

IT'S THE YEAR OF THE DSA IN DEMOCRATIC POLITICS. Democratic Socialists of America candidates have been on a roll lately, defeating established