The loved, learned political prophet of doom himself, Charlie Cook, just e-mailed a response to a line I wrote about him last week: Some of his colleagues quietly wonder if he is overcompensating for ...

Toward the end of Prophet Song, the harrowing novel that won this year's Booker Prize, Paul Lynch unspools a sentence that gathers momentum for more than a page before it seizes on a truth: "the end ...

The Beltway is buzzing about the pessimism of one of its most beloved prognosticators. Charlie Cook just doesn't think the Democrats will hold on to the House of Representatives. Cook bases his ...