Everything You Need to Know About the 2026 US Midterm Elections

The economy ranks as a top concern among voters as campaigns race toward the midterm elections early next month.

For Republicans, a lot rides on whether Tuesday’s balloting substantially diminishes their ranks.

Americans can expect postelection housing reforms no matter who controls Congress, though the shape those reforms take may differ.

Charles Murray, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, told a packed Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington this week that social science has become redundant. It was a striking assertion, not least because Murray is a social scientist, one of the finest of our time.