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Maz Jobrani will return to the Kennedy Center on Friday. (Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)

Comic Maz Jobrani is seriously funny about politics

By Jason Dick and Kathryn Lyons
Posted January 24, 2020 at 6:08pm
A Capitol. A hallway. Lunch. The Senate copes with not having full control of its calendar and waiting on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to transmit articles of impeachment so it can start its trial. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Waiting for Pelosi: The Senate theater of the absurd

By Jason Dick
Posted January 9, 2020 at 10:12am
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell uses the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center to hold discussions with his allies, adversaries and other dignitaries. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The center of Mitch McConnell’s legacy-building

By Jason Dick
Posted December 4, 2019 at 3:53pm
President Donald Trump concludes a rally at the Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville, Pa., on May 20. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Our offbeat debrief of the off-year elections: Trump ‘always makes it about him’

By Jason Dick
Posted November 20, 2019 at 8:04am
Journalists follow Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein as she leaves her office on her way to the chamber floor to speak about the CIA torture report being released by the committee on on Dec. 9, 2014. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

How a Capitol Hill staffer and a James Bond screenwriter dramatized ‘The Report’

By Jason Dick, Micaela Rodríguez and Niels Lesniewski
Posted November 12, 2019 at 2:02pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi looks on as the House votes on Oct. 31 on a resolution outlining the rules for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Impeachment will frame the debate going into the 2020 elections. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times/Pool)

The four most likely scenarios for 2020 elections, explained

By Jason Dick, Micaela Rodríguez and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted November 5, 2019 at 5:00am
Oklahoma Rep. Kendra Horn tops the list of most vulnerable House incumbents for the 2020 election cycle. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The most vulnerable 2020 House and Senate incumbents, explained

By Bridget Bowman, Jason Dick, Micaela Rodríguez, Simone Pathé and Stephanie Akin
Posted November 4, 2019 at 2:21pm
House Judiciary Chairman Henry J. Hyde presided over the impeachment hearings of President Bill Clinton in 1998. At left is the portrait of Peter Rodino, the Judiciary chairman when the committee approved impeachment articles against President Richard Nixon.(Scott J. Ferrell/CQ Roll Call file photo)

From impeachment’s high solemnity to high farce

By Jason Dick
Posted October 31, 2019 at 3:29pm
A portrait of the late Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings sits nearby as his body lies in state outside the House chamber on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Inside the unique tributes to Elijah Cummings

By Jason Dick
Posted October 25, 2019 at 4:38pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her fellow Supreme Court justices are political issues themselves, a topic for discussion in the latest Political Theater podcast. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The Supreme Court is ready for its close-up

By Jason Dick
Posted October 3, 2019 at 6:12pm