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Comedian and actress Dulcé Sloan talks to CQ Roll Call’s Kathryn Lyons for the latest Political Theater podcast, part of Heard on the Hill’s “Seriously Funny” feature.

Seriously Funny: Dulcé Sloan is not a ‘celebrity’

By Jason Dick and Kathryn Lyons
Posted May 13, 2020 at 1:49pm
A voter casts a ballot at a drop box in Baltimore on April 28 in the special election in Maryland’s 7th District.

‘Anything could happen,’ and it did. But political dynamics did not budge

By Jason Dick
Posted May 6, 2020 at 3:26pm
New York Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Max Rose wear face masks as they walk down the House steps Thursday before the chamber passed the $483.4 billion economic relief package.

A formidable coronavirus meets its match: New Jersey gas stations, liquor control boards, Capitol hobnobbing

By Jason Dick
Posted April 29, 2020 at 4:09pm
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., was the first member of Congress to disclose he had COVID-19. He talks to Political Theater about how it all went down.

“Out of the blue … all hell broke loose”: Mario Diaz-Balart on his COVID-19 recovery

By Jason Dick
Posted April 22, 2020 at 3:49pm
The Senate campaign of Texas Democrat Beto O'Rourke is just one of the topics of some our favorite political movies and the podcasts that came from them here on Political Theater.

Miss the campaign trail? These directors and their movies take us back

By Jason Dick
Posted April 15, 2020 at 1:36pm
Derek Najdzin, hangs out with Duke, a West Highland white terrier, in Meridian Hill Park in Washington on April 7.

What we learned, or didn’t, from the Ebola crisis

By Jason Dick
Posted April 9, 2020 at 7:00am
When the coronavirus pandemic hit and Congress moved to address it, the narrative quickly morphed into the biggest story many journalists had ever covered.

What happens when you lose track of your own story

By Jason Dick
Posted April 2, 2020 at 3:46pm
Sens. Kamala Harris and Pat Roberts leave the Capitol on Wednesday night after voting on the coronavirus stimulus package.

It’s not chaos: This is how debate in the Senate should look

By Jason Dick
Posted March 26, 2020 at 1:43pm
Meet the Mikes: From left, Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla., Rep. Michael Bost, R-Ill., and Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., talk in the Rayburn Room in the Capitol last month.

One Mike, two Mike, red Mike, blue Mike

By Jason Dick
Posted March 19, 2020 at 2:49pm
Actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at an anti-gerrymandering rally in front of the Supreme Court on Oct. 3, 2017. Schwarzenegger has a small role in the documentary "Slay the Dragon," which is about gerrymandering.

‘Slay the Dragon’ filmmakers take fight to gerrymandering

By Jason Dick
Posted March 12, 2020 at 4:10pm