The Cook PVI measures how each state and district performs at the presidential level compared to the nation as a whole. Among the many insights gleaned by my colleague David Wasserman from that report was that “Republicans continue to benefit from an electoral map tilted in their favor on nearly all levels.”

On Dec. 31, 2020, a 40-year-old man named Leon Casiquito walked into Kelly Liquors on Route 66 in Albuquerque and tried to shoplift a bottle of tequila.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its July 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook, its first extended baseline since March 2021. CBO's long-term budget projections have improved since March 2021 but are still troubling.