“It was the best thing that could have happened to me. It would have been a very miserable existence.”

Larry Hogan, the two-term former Republican governor of Maryland who sought an open U.S. Senate seat in 2024 and lost to Democrat Angela Alsobrooks by nearly 12 percentage points. Vowing to never run for office again, Hogan is instead launching the nonpartisan Hogan Institute at a small liberal arts college on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, saying he’s focused on teaching leadership skills to undergraduates who he hopes can fix a “broken” two-party system. (Washington Post)