Welcome back to The Conversation, Newsweek’s weekly round-up highlighting readers’ comments. Another week, another election, this time in Tennessee, where Republican Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat ...

The 2025 off-year elections were by any measure a top-to-bottom win for Democrats and a setback for Republicans and more particularly for Donald Trump. This last point is important to stress since the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. Midterm elections in the United States are almost designed to punish ...