This will be the third election in which a few thousand votes in a few states will determine which of two wildly different governing approaches will be given power to enact themselves.
The Democrats' easiest route to regain control of the House is through the upstate New York districts they lost two years ago, but the strong winds blowing through the presidential contest could impact races in Arizona, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
Whatever Donald Trump says is always said as if doubting it entails great risk, to oneself and to one's country. It is "follow the leader" on a grandiose scale.
If Trump wins, these Senate contests will be critical to the preservation of democracy. But the Democrats simply are defending too many seats in too many places where Trump won in either 2016 or 2020.
"The synod is wrestling with how to permit pastoral differences between the churches while guaranteeing the pope's authority to maintain unity among the churches," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
We cannot afford to remain illiterate when it comes to the book of nature, writes Dan Horan, for though the chapter we find ourselves in now is indeed grim, the story is not yet over.
At Washington's Red Mass, the themes of civility, humility and fortitude come "at a time that has become remarkably, historically and particularly uncivil at the high court," writes NCR's James V. Grimaldi.
