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      Republican blame game begins as Democrat’s Mississippi lead grows – as it happened

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      This blog has now closed – our live US midterms results coverage continues hereWall Street surged at the open, after Democrats scored historic victories in midterm elections and secured control of US Congress.The Dow Jones rose 2%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500 both gained more than 1%. That’s quite a reversal: Overnight, stock futures fell sharply as investors worried about the prospect of tougher regulation of the AI sector and the impact on economic growth. Continue reading… More

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      Trump has been humbled. Now what? – podcast

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      Journalist Molly Ball reports from Washington DC after the Republicans’ resounding midterms defeat. Will the party finally distance itself from Donald Trump? And what will the Democrats do with the power they’ve just gained? Send your comments and questions to [email protected] will Donald Trump react to the Republicans’ midterm drubbing? And do the Democrats have a plan beyond being the anti-Trump party?The veteran political journalist Molly Ball talks through the ramifications of a historic set of midterm results as Trump oversaw a string of losses in red states from Kansas to Texas to South Carolina. Continue reading… More

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      Get ready habibis, Abdul El-Sayed’s ‘shawarma law’ is coming to the US | Arwa Mahdawi

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      When the US’s first Muslim senator used Arabic in his victory speech, it cut through the torrent of vile racism Maga launched at him throughout his campaignRepeat after me: yallah. YAH-luh. This versatile Arabic word means everything from “hurry up”, to “come on” to “speak to you later”. If you add a “bye” at the end, the meaning shifts to “please shut up, fool” or “speak soon friend,” depending on your intonation.Next up: wallah. wa-LAH. Again, the definition changes depending on context and cadence. It can mean everything from “no way!” to “I swear to God.” Continue reading… More

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      What the downfall of near three-decade senator Susan Collins says about Republican unpopularity

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      Troy Jackson, in just 101 days, bested the Republican, preventing her sixth Senate term: ‘You can’t eat road salt’US midterms 2026 live – latest updatesSend us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats’ ‘blue wave’Track live results from all 50 statesThe political demise of Susan Collins – a fixture of Maine and Washington politics for three decades – recalls the famous line in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises about how one of the novel’s characters experienced bankruptcy: gradually, then suddenly.In the run-up to Tuesday’s stunning Democrat “blue wave” election triumph, it seemed obvious that Collins’s 30-year tenure as Maine’s Republican senator was vulnerable to the challenge of Troy Jackson, the Democrats’ explicitly working-class candidate as voters prepared to unleash pent-up anger with Donald Trump’s presidency. Continue reading… More

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      The great sleeping giant of America has awakened | Robert Reich

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      The real question in my mind is whether Democrats will take advantage of the new age of populismThe great sleeping giant of the US has awakened, taken a hard look at what’s become of the nation, and roared a thunderous “NO!”What occurred on Tuesday was not – as some are saying – the inevitable midterm swing of the pendulum against the party in power. Texas hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1988. The last time Kansas elected a Democratic senator was 1932.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now in the US and in the UK Continue reading… More

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      ‘Wellness is on the ballot’: why did so many pilates studios tell me to vote in the midterms?

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      Owners of pilates and yoga studios in the US got political and encouraged their followers to vote on social mediaSend us your questions about the midterm resultsTrack live results from all 50 statesYour local pilates instructors only want you to do two things: breathe through your side-planks and vote.In the days leading up to the US midterm elections, a wave of posts from fitness and wellness accounts blanketed Instagram, eschewing their typical messaging around the importance of strengthening your core in favor of the importance of exercising your civic duty. Owners of pilates and yoga studios and instructors across the US posted reels and pictures on platforms like Instagram encouraging their followers and clients to vote. Engagement varied depending on their following: posts reaped anywhere from 70 to more than 10,000 likes. Continue reading… More

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      Both sides of the Atlantic sense more hope: voters are drawn to the ‘politics of love’ | Alexander Hurst

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      Trump’s rout could be part of a democratic spring that began in Hungary. But will it extend to the French elections next May?Hungary, Brazil, Serbia, and now the US. So far this year, when their hand has been held to the stove, voters have chosen what the Texas senator-elect James Talarico, the new face of the US’s Christian left, campaigned on as a “politics of love”: a society where we aren’t at each other’s throats, or a police state at ours.Is it any surprise that when there is clarity about the choice on offer, voters have started to shrink away from a vision fuelled by billionaire wealth and runaway inequality? Away from oligarchic rule and unapologetic corruption, connivance with aggression, expansion, colonialism and war; environmental degradation and the surrender of the human spirit to a reality mediated by the algorithm.Alexander Hurst writes for Guardian Europe from Paris. His memoir Generation Desperation is out nowDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading… More