Predictions of a Democratic landslide may be running ahead of the voters. This argument points to Republican campaign spending, voters returning to their party and vulnerabilities among Democratic candidates as reasons the midterms could be closer than expected. It also questions whether polls are capturing Republican support, though that remains an argument rather than a demonstrated undercount. Democrats may still win the House; a Senate takeover looks less certain. The warning for both sides: enthusiasm and headlines count for nothing if supporters don’t cast a ballot.

Americans argue endlessly over who should pay for health care. A practicing physician asks who is running up the bill. Unnecessary tests, avoidable hospital admissions and exaggerated billing codes can turn ordinary treatment into a much larger expense. Fear of malpractice suits adds pressure to order more, while reimbursement can reward volume over judgment. Drawing on physician surveys and federal investigations, the argument challenges medicine’s assumption that doing more means doing better. Any serious affordability plan must confront the incentives that generate waste before asking patients and taxpayers to finance still more of it.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer is investigating activist groups that teach potential jurors about acquitting defendants when they believe a law or prosecution is unjust. He calls the training an effort to subvert federal prosecutors. The response reaches back to the Founding: juries were understood as a safeguard against government power, with citizens capable of judging its constitutional limits. The piece defends peaceful advocacy about jury independence as part of that tradition and challenges Congress to explain why teaching it should invite a federal investigation.

Fertility technology has advanced faster than many families’ understanding of the moral questions it creates. This Catholic argument examines the separation of conception from marriage, the treatment of embryos and the use of surrogates, asking whether the desire for a child can overshadow duties toward the child. Its central challenge is directed inward: churches cannot expect people to understand teachings they rarely explain. Infertility’s pain deserves compassion, and families deserve more than slogans when making decisions with lasting consequences for human life, marriage and parenthood.