The counting is not finished. Alaska and Mississippi are still out, and the exact size of the new House majority depends on which counter you ask. But control is settled: Democrats will hold both houses of Congress when the new Congress is sworn in this January, and the last two years of Donald Trump’s presidency will be divided government. Predictions about what that means are free, and worth what they cost. The winners have been more specific than the predictors. They said what they intended to do before Tuesday, and they have said it again since. So what did you actually vote for?

A week ago I put four stories on watch — Israel’s election, the Iran pledge, the shipping war in the Gulf, and Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign — mostly expecting to report that nothing much had moved. That’s not the report. All four moved. None of them finished.