In choosing Ken Paxton, Texas Republicans rejected of “the establishment conservatism that [Sen. John] Cornyn represented” — which should serve as “a warning to observers about American politics,” …
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate , speaks during a primary runoff election night event after winning the Republican party's nomination Tuesday, May 26, 2026, in Plano, Texas .
In choosing Ken Paxton, Texas Republicans rejected of “the establishment conservatism that Cornyn represented” — which should serve as “a warning to observers about American politics,”. The “Senate race between Paxton and Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November” neatly reflects “today’s polarized political climate,” as the pair’s only common ground is “a talent for embodying the excesses of their respective parties.
” “Maybe it’s fitting that deeply flawed candidates from both parties are now facing off for a U.S. Senate seat”: Polling shows that “most Americans are less polarized in their daily lives than the politicians who represent them,” but they won’t get “servant-minded, strategic statesman” until they “stop rewarding outrage, performance and polarization over character and leadership. ”Some Democrats seek “to separate their harsh feelings toward Netanyahu from their overall opinion of Israel,” while some on the right gripe that Bibi’s approach “is incompatible with ‘America First,’ ”.
All assume that replacing Netanyahu would move US-Israel relations where they desire. Hmm: Reacting to a possible US-Iran deal that restricted Israel’s freedom to respond to Hezbollah threats, Bibi’s Israeli rivals attacked him “from the right,” though they’re “to his left. ” Fact is, “Israeli public opinion maintains something close” to a consensus on the nation’s security needs, and pols on both sides “uphold that consensus.
” In the end, “Israelis are going to support taking out the threats they face” — no matter “who is prime minister. ”“The digital revolution is remaking nearly every aspect of modern life,”, including leaving suburban American children “weirdly held hostage indoors” on their screens. Ugh! This prevents “them from developing imagination, resilience and grit” yet allows them “to navigate dark corners of the internet on their own.
” For generations, “Americans have succeeded by pushing boundaries and embracing challenges”; kids need “the adventures and misadventures of childhood” to thrive. We can’t shelter them from “low-risk failures” and then toss “young adults into the deep end. ” Kids are addicted to screens because their parents failed “to give them something better to do. ” “To raise stronger, more resilient kids, we need to give them more freedom and demand more responsibility.
”Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with “every incentive to strike while the iron is hot,” seems to be preparing the ground for a 2028 presidential run,. But her near-willful ignorance of global politics means “this is not good news for the US. ” E.g.: Asked about Taiwan at the Munich Security Conference, she “answered with incoherent word salad.
” Asked about “balancing a need for increased defense spending and nations’ debts,” she retreated to talking about the “billionaire class,” and referred to NAFTA — which was replaced in 2020 — as a “failed policy. ” She also “doesn’t like doing sit-down interviews”— yet “if you want to be president,” then “you must accept” the accompanying “scrutiny.
”Lawmakers have fretted about the Federal Reserve’s independence under new Chairman Kevin Warsh,, yet his predecessor, Jerome Powell, “undermined” that independence for years — by taking on “political objectives” and expanding the “scope of its balance sheet,” the assets it owns.
“Any country that runs a large debt struggles to maintain an independent central bank, but that task becomes even harder” with “a large balance sheet,” which enables higher government debt and so “tempts policymakers to inflate away debt” or “keep interest rates low in order to reduce debt-service payments. ” Yay: Warsh has “expressed a clear desire to shrink the balance sheet” — a tricky task that “may do more for Fed independence than anything else in the last 20 years. ”
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