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Which US elections are happening in 2025? Here's a look at upcoming primary and general contests

Times Union 

Most of the U.S. holds its major primary and general elections in even-numbered years, but there are a handful of places where competitive congressional, state and local-level contests will be happening in 2025. The first is on Jan. 7, when Virginia holds a special general election to fill two legislative seats spotlighted by national Democrats. The highlight of this year's calendar is on Nov. 4, when elections are held for Virginia governor, New Jersey governor and New York mayor.

China's Economy Is Far From Buried

Real Clear World 

John Rapley, UnHerd

China's economy has become something of a Rorschach test. The 5% growth target for 2024 that Xi Jinping yesterday said the country had met? One set of economists looks at...

China's Economy Could Soon Face a Massive Debt Crisis

Real Clear World 

Gordon Chang, 19FortyFive

"China's economy has rebounded and is on an upward trajectory, with its GDP for the year expected to pass the 130 trillion yuan mark," Xi Jinping said in his 2025...

The Players on the Eve of Destruction

Real Clear World 

Noah Smith, Substack

I'd like some help finding a poem, if any of you happen to know it. I read it when I was a teenager, and I forget who it was by — possibly Louise Gluck. Anyway, the...

The Most Effective Antidote to ISIS Attacks

Real Clear World 

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic

The man who murdered at least 15 people with his truck on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, last night was flying the black banner of the Islamic State from his...

The 'Intifada' Comes to New Orleans

Real Clear World 

Brendan O'Neill, Spiked

If the New Year's Day massacre in the Big Easy doesn't wake us up to the horrors of Islamism, nothing will.

What Liberals Got Wrong About 1989

Real Clear World 

Ivan Krastev, The Atlantic

As I witnessed the despair and incomprehension of liberals worldwide after Donald Trump's victory in November's U.S. presidential...

The U.S. Will Thrive Under Isolationism

Real Clear World 

Joseph Quinlan and Lauren Sanfilippo, Barron´s

The world economy is becoming more closed than opened, more fractured than integrated, and more bound than unbound....