Kaci Hickox, boyfriend leaving Maine after Ebola quarantine fight  —  The nurse who treated patients in West Africa was at the center of a national controversy over how to handle returning health care workers.  —  Kaci Hickox and Ted Wilbur talk to the press regarding Maine's quarantine policy Wednesday.

Obama outlines “new phase” in the fight against ISIS  —  Shares -  —  The decision to nearly double the number of American advisers deployed to Iraq “signals a new phase” in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, or ISIL), President Obama said Sunday, but U.S. troops will still stay out of combat operations.

The Death of the Southern White Democrat Hurts African-Americans the Most  —  Not long after the polls closed on Tuesday night, Georgia Congressman John Barrow earned his place in history when he lost his reelection campaign to Republican Rick Allen by almost 10 points—a peculiar place he undoubtedly didn't want.

Two midterm elections have hollowed out the Democratic Party  —  When President Obama was elected in 2008, his victory signaled a generational change and the prospect of renewal for the Democratic Party.  Instead, the opposite has occurred.  Over the past six years, the party has been hollowed out.

Pricey Doughnuts, Pricier Homes, Priced-Out Readers  —  DAVID Gonzalez approached the South Bronx street-corner preacher and said he was from The New York Times.  —  “He had just been shouting fire, brimstone and eternal damnation,” recalled Mr. Gonzalez, at that time, in 1991, the Bronx bureau chief.

The Free Market Did Not Bring Down the Berlin Wall  —  The United States has misinterpreted the end of Communism for a quarter of a century.  It's time to set the record straight.  —  GOOGLE +

Dark Money Helped Win the Senate  —  The next Senate was just elected on the greatest wave of secret, special-interest money ever raised in a congressional election.  What are the chances that it will take action to reduce the influence of money in politics?  —  Nil, of course.

NFLPA asks for Peterson reinstated  —  The NFL Players Association sent a letter to the NFL on Friday, calling for the immediate reinstatement of Adrian Peterson per the agreement the sides made for the Minnesota Vikings running back to go on the commissioner's exempt list in September, according to sources.

With Fear of Being Sidelined, Tea Party Sees the Republican Rise as New Threat  —  WASHINGTON — As most Republicans were taking a victory lap the morning after the elections, a group of conservatives huddled anxiously in a conference room not far from Capitol Hill and agreed …

Can D.C. get something done?  Fat chance  —  What can actually get done over the next two years?  Even if you didn't get your hopes up, you should still lower them.  —  President Barack Obama and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are doing their best to sound positive.

TED CRUZ, MIKE LEE: OBAMA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL NOMINEE MUST DENOUNCE PLANNED EXECUTIVE AMNESTY  —  Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) said Saturday that President Barack Obama's nomination to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, must denounce Obama's planned executive amnesty.