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A man waits to initiate the balloon drop as then-former President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024.

In politics, like in life, nothing lasts forever

By Jason Dick
Posted April 18, 2025 at 12:19pm
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, seen here at last year's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is helping set the tone for his state's approach to President Donald Trump's second term.

Golden State meets ‘Golden Age’

By Jason Dick and Christina Bellantoni
Posted April 11, 2025 at 8:39am

Much ado about special elections

By Jason Dick, Mary Ellen McIntire and Andrew Menezes
Posted April 3, 2025 at 10:51am
Negative views of Congress has not kept tourists away from the Capitol, like these seen visiting on Monday.

Economic worries continue as Washington mulls tariffs, budget

By Jason Dick
Posted March 31, 2025 at 4:58pm
A Maracas Ice Pop is prepared during the Washington Nationals media preview day at Nationals Park on Friday, March 21, 2025.

The Thai popcorn does not detract

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:26am
Both chambers are in recess for the first time in the 119th Congress.

Editor’s Note: The 119th Congress in numbers, mid-March edition

By Jason Dick
Posted March 21, 2025 at 3:31pm
Materials from this year’s Gridiron dinner, a tradition that dates to 1885.

At the Gridiron, laughter in the dark

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 19, 2025 at 6:36pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference with caucus leadership during the House Democrats' 2025 Issues Conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on Wednesday.

Democrats at (in?) retreat

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted March 12, 2025 at 9:14pm
Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading “This is not normal” as President Donald Trump enters the House chamber on Tuesday night to deliver his address to a joint session of Congress.

Protest, retreat, hide? Congressional behavior, 2025-style

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted March 6, 2025 at 4:05pm
Josh Hawley is among the Senate Republicans who are unenthusiastic about the House’s proposed cuts to Medicaid.

‘Yeah, I don’t love that,’ or how the House learned to start jamming the Senate

By Jason Dick and David Lerman
Posted February 27, 2025 at 4:19pm
The U.S. Capitol dome is lit as the Senate voted late into the night and early morning last week on a budget resolution.

Polls: No really; it’s still the economy, stupid

By Jason Dick
Posted February 26, 2025 at 2:32pm
Among the small number of Democrats who have shown they can navigate the current political environment, according to Brandon Wetherbee, is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

‘If I can get you to feel’ — politics, wrestling and connecting with people

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted February 19, 2025 at 5:22pm
Political Theater podcast host Jason Dick and “Porcelain War” co-director Slava Leontyev in the Roll Call newsroom.

‘Beauty never gets old’ — Slava Leontyev in the ‘Porcelain War’

By Jason Dick
Posted February 11, 2025 at 2:47pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has largely stuck to his plan to consistently confirm executive nominees and has plans to take the lead on the budget process if the House cannot forge a path.

Having a plan beats not having a plan

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 6, 2025 at 3:14pm
A helicopter flies near the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.

Instability as norm. Or test

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 30, 2025 at 4:59pm
Security barricades the House chamber as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021. Reps. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, blue shirt, and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., right, are also pictured. President Donald Trump issued pardons to all those involved in the attack.

Pardon me? Tales of presidential pardons

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted January 22, 2025 at 2:57pm
Barack Obama was the most recent president before Donald Trump to deliver a second inaugural address.

Echoes among 17 presidents’ second inaugural addresses

By Jason Dick
Posted January 20, 2025 at 12:54pm
Two appointed senators, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Roland Burris, D-Ill., walk through Statuary Hall before President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009. Burris did not seek election following his appointment. Wicker won election and has continued to climb the ranks in the chamber.

Appointed senators: The winners, seat-warmers, losers and weirdos

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 15, 2025 at 8:29pm
Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is the most senior senator to first enter the chamber as an appointee.

Some stick around: Appointed senators and their fates

By Jason Dick
Posted January 15, 2025 at 5:37pm
From left, Sen. Patty Murray and Reps. Xavier Becerra and James E. Clyburn address the media outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting in November 2011.

‘It’s incredibly hard’ — consider the super committee

By Jason Dick
Posted January 9, 2025 at 6:00am
Sen. Max Baucus is questioned by reporters outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting on Nov. 17, 2011.

So you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget

By Jason Dick, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted January 8, 2025 at 4:11pm
Sunrise light hits the Capitol Dome on Thursday as the 119th Congress is set to begin Friday. Republicans will control both chambers and the White House for the first time in eight years.

Editor’s Note: Honeymoon in Washington

By Jason Dick
Posted January 3, 2025 at 6:30am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has a thin margin of error now and in the coming 119th Congress.

The top political stories, of next year

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 19, 2024 at 10:58am
Andy Kim, D-N.J., takes in John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” painting in the Capitol Rotunda before being sworn in to the Senate on Monday.

Revenge of the Senate

By Jason Dick
Posted December 11, 2024 at 6:57pm
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, center, has scheduled 31 five-day work weeks in 2025, which was music to the ears of Rep. William R. Timmons IV.

Help wanted: Spending more time and effort in Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted December 9, 2024 at 4:42pm
One of the first votes the newly elected freshman members of Congress will take after being sworn in is on a rules package for the House chamber. Some very simple proposals that could be written into the rules could make the chamber function better, Molly Reynolds of The Brookings Institution argues.

Home improvements for the House

By Jason Dick
Posted December 4, 2024 at 2:58pm
Few senators have shaped the judicial confirmation process as much as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

A very judgy lame duck

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted November 21, 2024 at 12:36pm
Ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, and Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., arrive for a Senate Judiciary Committee markup on Thursday. Prior to the markup, they spoke to reporters about the nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be attorney general.

Who are these guys? The Congress-Cabinet-West Wing revue

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted November 14, 2024 at 6:19pm
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband Paul, greet guests before Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the crowd at Howard University after conceding the presidential race to Donald Trump on Wednesday.

5 big questions with Nathan L. Gonzales

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted November 7, 2024 at 2:26pm
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, seen here at a campaign rally at the Communications Workers of America Local 4370 in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 2024. Brown is among the most vulnerable senators running for reelection.

The last Most Vulnerable Incumbents lists of the 2024 cycle

By Jason Dick, Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted October 31, 2024 at 11:51am
Actor Jeremy Strong poses for a photo as he arrives for the gala premiere of the movie "The Apprentice" at the Imperial in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Oct. 16. Strong portrays Roy Cohn, the former president's one-time lawyer.

But is it art? Unpacking ‘The Apprentice’

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted October 24, 2024 at 5:40am
Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock plays a president facing an insurrection in “War Game,” which documents a tense, unscripted tabletop exercise held last year.

In swing states and beyond, ‘War Game’ sounds a warning

By Jason Dick
Posted October 22, 2024 at 6:30am
Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn speaks during his campaign stop at Sly’s Family Bar and Grill in Neligh, Neb., on Monday. Osborn is running against Republican Sen. Deb Fischer, and the two parties differ on the status of the race.

Let’s get (electorally) unstable!

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted October 18, 2024 at 12:55pm
The Jan. 6, 2021, attempted insurrection helped inspire the simulation role-playing exercise that is the subject of the documentary “War Game.”

‘War Game’: Rehearsing the uncomfortably plausible

By Jason Dick
Posted October 9, 2024 at 10:24am
The Supreme Court's new term starts on Monday, Oct. 7.

A ‘sleepy’ Supreme Court term? Yeah, right

By Jason Dick, Todd Ruger and Michael Macagnone
Posted October 2, 2024 at 5:56pm
Vice President and Democratic nominee for President Kamala Harris speaks at an event hosted by The Economic Club of Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, Pa. President Joe Biden was in New York at the UN General Assembly and former President Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C.

Tales of the three-headed incumbent: Biden/Harris/Trump

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted September 26, 2024 at 11:33am
From left, former Rep. Earl Pomeroy points as Ben Rich, chief of staff for the late Rep. Bill Pascrell’s office, hands over the Pease Cactus to Rep. Jimmy Panetta in Panetta’s office in the Cannon House Office Building on Sept. 18. House Ways and Means Committee members whose first or last names start with “P” have passed along guardianship of the cactus for more than 30 years.

‘The cactus endures’ — a Ways and Means tradition’s moment in the sun

By Jason Dick
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:15am

One last journey down Roll Call’s Jersey Turnpike

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted September 19, 2024 at 12:02pm
The Maryland Senate primary that Angela Alsobrooks, now the Democratic nominee, won against Rep. David Trone was among the most instructive for Roll Call Elections Analyst Nathan L. Gonzales. Gov. Wes Moore is pictured at right.

The surprises, lessons and exhaustion of the congressional primaries

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 12, 2024 at 10:28am
Protesters hold signs outside the Supreme Court on June 24 to mark the second anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. In a new book, journalist Amanda Becker chronicles the upheaval and activism that followed the decision.

In ‘You Must Stand Up,’ Amanda Becker captures the scramble after Dobbs

By Jason Dick
Posted September 9, 2024 at 1:38pm
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., speaks during a rally to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade on June 27, 2024.

When political realignment happens before your eyes; Amanda Becker discusses ‘You Must Stand Up’

By Jason Dick and Amanda Becker
Posted September 5, 2024 at 11:01am
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle will perform at the Congressional Record 2024 on Sept. 17 at the Capitol Visitor Center.

Members of Congress get ready to kick out the jams

By Jason Dick
Posted August 30, 2024 at 8:51am
From left, Reps. Sean Casten, D-Ill., Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky., and Dan Kildee, D-Mich., are seen on the first night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19. McGarvey is among the members scheduled to perform at the Congressional Record 2024 music event on Sept. 17.

The happy-to-be-there caucus

By Jason Dick
Posted August 30, 2024 at 5:00am
John Legend, joined by Sheila E., perform Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” during day three of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sweet (temporary) home Chicago

By Jason Dick, Aidan Quigley and Daniela Altimari
Posted August 22, 2024 at 9:50am
From left, Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan and Sen. Al Franken; Minnesota natives Ryan Jensen of Peregrine Espresso and Dorothy Sietsema; Democratic Rep. Tim Walz, who won with his “Tim's Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish”; and Sietsema's son, Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema, attend the sixth annual Minnesota congressional delegation’s hotdish competition in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 11, 2016. Jensen and the Sietsemas acted as judges.

‘Turkey Taco Tot Tim’? Hot takes on hotdish

By Jason Dick
Posted August 20, 2024 at 2:07pm
President Joe Biden, center, and Vice President Kamala Harris, second from left, appear with their families after Biden addressed the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Monday.

Democrats cram opening night with tributes, contrasts with Trump

By Jason Dick and Niels Lesniewski
Posted August 20, 2024 at 5:28am
Banners and bunting decorate the outside of the InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile hotel as Chicago gears up for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.

DNC-adjacent: Stories in the convention’s orbit

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted August 15, 2024 at 12:11pm
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is pictured with his running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, right, in the Fiserv Forum on the second day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16.

Ohio, the [political] heart of it all

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted August 1, 2024 at 1:08pm
Sens. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., left, and George McGovern, D-S.D., the Democratic nominees for vice president and president, respectively, at the Democratic National Convention in 1972. Eagleton dropped off the ticket less than three weeks later after revealing he had been treated for depression.

Yes things feel crazy, but elections are frequently chaotic, from LBJ to RBG and more

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 26, 2024 at 11:06am
Roll Call columnist Walter Shapiro dons headphones before recording a podcast with editor Jason Dick on Nov. 15, 2017.

Appreciation: Walter Shapiro, a pro’s pro who learned politics and journalism the hard way

By Jason Dick
Posted July 21, 2024 at 1:51pm
Former President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are riding high at their national nominating convention, confident of their prospects for winning in November.

‘Happy Days’ for Republicans in Milwaukee

By Jason Dick, John T. Bennett and Briana Reilly
Posted July 18, 2024 at 10:25am
Former President Donald Trump arrives at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee for his first appearance at the Republican National Convention on Monday.

Trump and Biden, watching their language

By Jason Dick
Posted July 16, 2024 at 2:39pm
President Joe Biden arrives at the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2023.

Just the facts, just the facts, with Factba.se

By Jason Dick
Posted July 11, 2024 at 2:37pm
The Interstate 5 and Interstate 605 interchange is seen on descent to Los Angeles International Airport.

Nathan L. Gonzales just can’t wait to get on the road again

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted June 27, 2024 at 10:01pm
Signage for Thursday's presidential debate is seen as workers set up security fencing outside CNN's studios at the Turner Entertainment Networks in Atlanta.

Debatus interruptus, tracking the Biden-Trump debates

By Jason Dick
Posted June 27, 2024 at 5:11pm
Abortion rights and anti-abortion protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, before justices overturned Roe v. Wade.

Two years in the post-Dobbs world

By Jason Dick and Amanda Becker
Posted June 21, 2024 at 1:14pm
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, slides in safe to home plate as catcher Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., appeals to the umpire during the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday.

Editor’s Note: Mixing baseball and contempt

By Jason Dick
Posted June 14, 2024 at 2:11pm
Being former President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Iceland wasn’t enough for Jeff Gunter to earn Trump's endorsement, as he went on to lose the GOP Senate primary in Nevada.

When being ambassador to Iceland isn’t enough

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted June 13, 2024 at 1:08pm
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and attorney Ben Crump, left, leave a news conference at the Capitol on Wednesday after meeting with congressional leaders about increasing minority representation in the multibillion-dollar luxury spirits industry.

Editor’s Note: Running the numbers in Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted June 7, 2024 at 5:06pm
The DC/DOX film festival gets underway on June 13. The festival highlights documentaries from across the spectrum and examines a vast swath of culture.

Gathering in dark rooms: Sky Sitney on DC/DOX

By Jason Dick
Posted June 4, 2024 at 2:29pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Strange things are afoot at the Capitol

By Jason Dick
Posted May 24, 2024 at 4:10pm
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., plays catch with a reporter while being interviewed outside the Capitol on Thursday. Summer is almost here, and the news cycle is going to heat up.

Summertime, and the political news is busy

By Jason Dick
Posted May 24, 2024 at 11:19am
Angela Alsobrooks, second from right, Democratic Senate candidate from Maryland, and Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., left, pose for picture with voters on the state’s primary election day at Lewisdale Elementary School in Chillum, Md., on Tuesday.

Primary colors: Breaking down the latest congressional contests

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted May 15, 2024 at 10:04pm
Back before the discussion turned to a worm that ate part of his brain, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was a star witness for the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government at a July 30, 2023 hearing.

Editor’s Note: Dead dogs, porn stars and brain-eating worms: Congress can barely compete

By Jason Dick
Posted May 10, 2024 at 3:09pm
A Capitol Police officer confronts a rioter who broke through a window on the first floor of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

‘The Sixth’ shows what some don’t want to see

By Jason Dick
Posted May 9, 2024 at 6:15am
One reason Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., is on the Most Vulnerable Incumbents list is she is facing off against a wealthy opponent, one of several ways to land on the list.

How to get onto Roll Call’s Most Vulnerable Incumbents list

By Jason Dick, Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted May 8, 2024 at 2:05pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., attend a ceremony for Army Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., the last Korean War Medal of Honor recipient to die, as his remains lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda on April 29.

Editor’s Note: Congress’ own river of life, in miniature

By Jason Dick
Posted May 3, 2024 at 3:46pm
Rioters attempt to enter the Capitol at the House steps during a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021.

Jan. 6, 2021, and the people who will never forget

By Jason Dick
Posted May 2, 2024 at 12:38pm
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, left, and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conduct a photo op before a meeting in the Capitol on Thursday.

Editor’s Note: Congress and the coalition-curious

By Jason Dick
Posted April 19, 2024 at 2:48pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., did not raise much money for his reelection campaign, but he did for his legal defense. Still, he might run anyway in November, potentially upending Garden State politics.

Meanwhile, in non-Trump, non-impeachment and non-speaker news

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted April 19, 2024 at 9:00am
Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., died on April 16. His habit of recording his daily minutia is now standard social media behavior for billions of people.

We all became Bob Graham

By Jason Dick
Posted April 17, 2024 at 6:03pm
The American food system gets another look in “Food, Inc. 2.”

Food fight continues with ‘Food, Inc. 2’

By Jason Dick
Posted April 16, 2024 at 5:00am
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and Speaker Mike Johnson pose for a photo before Kishida addressed a joint meeting of Congress on Thursday.

Editor’s Note: What passes for normal in Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted April 12, 2024 at 2:49pm
From left, Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, author Eric Schlosser and filmmakers Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo discuss “Food, Inc. 2” after a screening of the film at the Burke Theater in Washington on April 9.

‘Food, Inc. 2’ filmmakers provide plenty to chew on

By Jason Dick
Posted April 11, 2024 at 1:56pm
Rep. Bill Delahunt pauses to consult notes as he questions witnesses during a 1998 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton.

Bill Delahunt and his part in a legendary Capitol Hill crash pad quartet

By Jason Dick
Posted April 8, 2024 at 3:53pm
Former Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman talks with reporters as he walks through the Senate subway in Washington on June 22, 2021.

Joseph Lieberman, an iconoclast who frustrated the Democratic Party, dies at 82

By Jason Dick
Posted March 27, 2024 at 7:47pm
Bernie Moreno, Republican candidate for Senate, speaks at the Columbiana County Lincoln Day Dinner in Salem, Ohio, on March 15.

When the most powerful people get what they want

By Jason Dick, Daniela Altimari and Herb Jackson
Posted March 22, 2024 at 6:08am
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., is seen in the U.S. Capitol after the House passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which could ban TikTok in the U.S., on Wednesday, March 13.

Editor’s Note: Amid Congress’ dysfunction, some significant votes

By Jason Dick
Posted March 15, 2024 at 3:33pm
Marine One takes off from the South Lawn of the White House.

The highs, lows and weirds of covering the White House

By Jason Dick and Niels Lesniewski
Posted March 14, 2024 at 3:04pm
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge arrives on the House floor before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address to the joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, March 7, 2024. On Monday, the news broke that Fudge was leaving the administration.

Marcia Fudge becomes second Cabinet secretary to leave Biden team

By Niels Lesniewski and Jason Dick
Posted March 11, 2024 at 5:50pm
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., seen here in January walking in the Senate subway, got stuck on a train after the State of the Union.

Editor’s Note: Train in vain … you didn’t stand by me

By Jason Dick
Posted March 8, 2024 at 11:16am
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, reacts during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday. Brown is in a toss-up reelection race that will be key to who is in the majority in the next Congress. Also pictured are, left, Sens. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Tim Scott, R-S.C.

The changing 2024 Senate landscape

By Jason Dick
Posted March 7, 2024 at 1:37pm
An abandoned tank stuck in the sand on Oucuo Beach in Kinmen, Taiwan.

On Taiwan’s islands of Kinmen, ‘that feeling of being stuck in between’

By Jason Dick
Posted February 29, 2024 at 6:15am
Among the marquee races on Super Tuesday is the California Senate primary, which features three House Democrats: from left, Katie Porter, Barbara Lee and Adam B. Shiff. More than one-quarter of the House faces primaries on March 5 in California, Texas, North Carolina, Alabama and Arkansas.

What we talk about when we talk about Super Tuesday

By Jason Dick, Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 28, 2024 at 12:01pm
President Joe Biden, seen here on Feb. 20 on the South Lawn of the White House, will give his State of the Union address on March 7, just one of many big-ticket items for the month ahead.

Editor’s Note: Never mind the Ides of March, beware all of March

By Jason Dick
Posted February 23, 2024 at 1:02pm, Updated at 2:02pm
S. Leo Chiang's new documentary, "Island in Between," is about Taiwan's Kinmen Island and the filmmaker's own history and identity. It has been nominated for an Academy Award.

Exploring the in-betweenness of Taiwan

By Jason Dick
Posted February 21, 2024 at 9:28am
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., gives a thumbs-up to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during the House Republicans’ news conference on Wednesday.

Editor’s note: A case of the Mondays

By Jason Dick
Posted February 16, 2024 at 6:00am
Rep.-elect Tom Suozzi takes a picture with supporters during a campaign rally at the Polish National Home in Glen Cove, N.Y., on Feb. 4. The New York Democrat won the 3rd District special election on Tuesday.

One special place: New York’s 3rd Congressional District

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted February 15, 2024 at 5:37pm
Rep. James E. Clyburn speaks during the opening news conference of House Democrats’ 2024 issues retreat in Leesburg, Va., on Feb. 7. Clyburn announced Wednesday that he is stepping down from his leadership position.

Clyburn leaving Democratic leadership but will seek reelection to House

By Jason Dick
Posted February 14, 2024 at 5:43pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday addressed the media about the Mayorkas impeachment vote.

Editor’s Note: Congress’ dwindling numbers — and returns

By Jason Dick
Posted February 9, 2024 at 11:24am
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., speaks about Republicans abandoning the bipartisan border deal during the Senate Democrats’ press conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

‘What the hell just happened?’ Congress reaches deep into the failure well

By Jason Dick
Posted February 8, 2024 at 3:00pm
Former Sen. Bill Bradley, seen here during his playing days with the New York Knicks in October 1973 at Madison Square Garden in New York, has a new documentary one-man show, "Rolling Along," about his life.

A sense of where he is: Bill Bradley and his one-man show ‘Rolling Along’

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted February 5, 2024 at 10:45am
One big story the Political Theater crew is following is whether Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., seen after the Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, will run for re-election and whether she will be able to collect more than 40,000 signatures from registered independents to qualify for the ballot.

What’s the big idea? The big political stories beyond the headlines

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted January 25, 2024 at 11:23am
President Joe Biden leaves the White House to board Marine One for a trip to Philadelphia on Dec. 11, 2023. Democrats are starting to express concern about the state of his reelection campaign.

Signs of life? Democrats start to sound off about Biden campaign

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted January 18, 2024 at 9:11am
A Pizza Ranch sign advertises "Trump Eats Free" after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump visited the John Wayne Museum, Jan. 19, 2016, in Winterset, Iowa.

Whyiowa? Because you have to start someplace

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 9, 2024 at 9:07pm
Whatever now-former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., the first member of the House expelled since 2002, is doing in this photo, it seems to speak for all of us at the end of this tumultuous year.

On topic, off beat? Our favorite Political Theater episodes of 2023

By Jason Dick
Posted December 21, 2023 at 2:52pm
Mascots for the Washington Capitals, left, and Wizards, surprise a biker on the Mall as the duo was being filmed. The two teams are looking to move to Virginia and away from downtown DC after more than 25 years.

Don’t hassle me, I’m local: The DC edition

By Jason Dick
Posted December 13, 2023 at 12:54pm
Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., waits in his seat for the 14th failed vote to elect a speaker of the House on Jan. 6. McCarthy was eventually elected speaker but in October became the first one to be voted out of his position by his colleagues.

The view from 2073: What political stories this year will be relevant in 50 years?

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 7, 2023 at 1:32pm
Denise and Courtney of Kansas pose with their son, Marek. The family is among those featured in the new Hulu documentary “We Live Here: The Midwest.”

These LGBTQ+ families have a message for the Midwest: ‘We Live Here’

By Jason Dick
Posted December 5, 2023 at 6:15am
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, center, talks with then-Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., right, and ranking member Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., before a hearing on Jan. 31, 2007. Kissinger died on Wednesday.

Kissinger and the Capitol

By Jason Dick
Posted November 30, 2023 at 7:54pm