What's going on with the midterm elections? Why do they matter?

Midterm elections don’t always get the same flash and attention as big presidential elections. But it’s just as important and acts as a sort of vibe-check for how Americans feel about the president.

Voters are feeling the pinch of Trump’s anti-climate agenda as energy costs rise, but a shakeup in Congress could shift things If the polls can be believed, the US could see a blue wave in the midterms, giving Democrats a chance to take back the House and Senate, and gaining up to four governor’s…

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

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.