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Activists with Shut Down DC hold a protest outside of the EPA headquarters in Washington on Thursday to rename it as the Environmental Pollution Agency.

How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue

By Jessica Wehrman and David Jordan
Posted August 7, 2025 at 3:11pm
Rep. Marc Veasey speaks alongside fellow Texas Democrats during a news conference outside the Capitol on July 23, 2025, to discuss the Lone Star State's redistricting plans.

Off to the redistricting races

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted July 30, 2025 at 12:19pm
President Donald Trump holds up the “GENIUS Act” alongside Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans after signing the bill into law during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 18.

Six months into Trump 2.0, GOP exudes ‘extreme confidence’

By Jessica Wehrman and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 22, 2025 at 4:21pm
Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith speaks to media outlets about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act during the House GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Media Row event in the U.S. Capitol basement on July 15. House Republicans are making a push to sell the bill to the American public.

Rush job: Life in Congress

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 16, 2025 at 3:53pm
Chris Cillizza, left, joins the Political Theater podcast this week.

‘We had time back then’

By Jason Dick
Posted July 8, 2025 at 5:31pm
Hunter S Thompson at his ranch, sitting in his kitchen, which he also used as an office on Oct. 12, 1990 in Woody Creek, Aspen, Colo. Playwright Joe Iconis visited the late journalist's home while working on "The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical."

The ‘rock and roll poetry’ of Joe Iconis’ Hunter S. Thompson musical

By Jason Dick
Posted July 3, 2025 at 9:09am
U.S. Capitol Police arrest protesting members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The protesters chanted “no cuts to Medicaid” while being arrested.

A short history of hoping people will change their minds

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 25, 2025 at 4:16pm
An activist with Save Our Care brings tombstone cutouts to the office of Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst to highlight her comments at a recent town hall on the Republican budget proposal.

It’s déjà tea party all over again

By Jason Dick and Jim Saksa
Posted June 10, 2025 at 3:28pm
The closing of E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., a hub of documentary and art-house movies, is among the challenges facing the genre and its champions.

The ‘predicament and necessity’ of documentary movies

By Jason Dick
Posted June 4, 2025 at 11:53am
Former Roll Callers Christina Bellantoni and Neda Semnani have been leading their students on a tour of Washington during a time when Congress has been debating significant changes to tax and entitlement laws, such as at the House Rules Committee, shown here last week.

Taking the grand tour of Washington

By Jason Dick, Christina Bellantoni and Neda Toloui-Semnani
Posted May 27, 2025 at 6:16pm