Opinion · 118th Congress
Why the White House Situation Room could provide clues in classified ‘documents-gate’
Lawmakers are struggling to respond to the White House hemorrhaging classified documents. They should start with the Situation Room.
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Opinion · 118th Congress
After Tyre Nichols, can they finally say those three simple words?
As a mother mourns her son, some in Congress are still missing the point. They deny the desperate, defiant power of “Black Lives Matter.”
Opinion · 118th Congress
The siren song of the California Senate race for out-of-state Democrats
As Katie Porter and others announce their bids for California’s Senate seat, Democratic donors should resist the urge to play along.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Republicans still trying to starve the beast
Republicans have handed Democrats an issue to run against: their willingness to rework popular government programs, Stuart Rothenberg writes.
Congress · 118th Congress
Senate Republicans to House GOP on Biden probes: Evidence matters
Senate Republicans are voicing concerns about how their House colleagues are conducting investigations of the Biden family.
Opinion · 118th Congress
The insidious power of keeping it vague
Educators may want to challenge Florida's 'Stop Woke Act,' but it’s difficult to fight something that's so hard to pin down
Opinion · 118th Congress
Pelosi started a war Jeffries has to finish
She broke precedent for the Jan. 6 select committee, and now Democrats are seeing what that means for their Intelligence picks.
Opinion · 118th Congress
‘INFO on everyone’: Both sides casting Biden-Trump rematch as 2024 ‘Sopranos’ reboot
Republicans contend the Biden family is akin to television's "The Sopranos" crime organization — despite not a single charge being filed.
Opinion · 118th Congress
In elections, a win is a win. And Republicans won
Joe Biden and House Democrats ought to finally accept the outcome of this election and rethink their progressive agenda.
Opinion · 118th Congress
House Freedom Caucus goes full ‘swamp’
The House Freedom Caucus long derided Washington's closed-door deals, until it came time to cut one with Kevin McCarthy.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Telling the truth, onstage and off, so history doesn’t repeat itself
I thought of Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, and his defense of the Capitol two years ago, even while being showered with racial slurs.
Congress · 118th Congress
C-Spanning the room: Ups and downs of showing the real House
C-SPAN’s unfettered coverage of the House speaker debate led to calls for more free access, but there’s a downside, Nathan L. Gonzales says.
Opinion · 118th Congress
The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?
The battle for House speaker doesn’t guarantee which party will have the advantage next year in the 2024 campaign.
Opinion · 118th Congress
Meet 2023’s politics, even more dramatic than 2022’s
The messy Republican fight over the next House speaker is a reminder that, despite a new year starting, there is no bottom in U.S. politics.
Opinion · 118th Congress
The ‘spoiler caucus’ is creating chaos
What have we learned so far from the Kevin McCarthy speaker saga? When a tiny minority can dominate the majority, you have a problem.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The year that the last congressional week has been
This was a week that perfectly summarized 2022: Legal problems for Donald Trump and a chaotic Congress stumbled to its conclusion.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The oversight House Republicans could do — but probably won’t
House Republicans vow to investigate all things Hunter and Joe Biden. But there are other issues begging for their oversight.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Why a lost election left Adam Frisch (and his son) optimistic
He came within 546 votes of defeating Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, but Frisch is looking on the bright side.
Opinion · 117th Congress
The beginning of the end for Donald Trump? Probably.
Over the past two midterms, the last presidential election and other events, signs of Trump’s growing weakness are undeniable, Rothenberg writes.
Opinion · 117th Congress
Sinema aligns with independents. Smart!
Kyrsten Sinema seems to understand that looking ahead, independents are the voters to watch when it comes to both parties’ chances in 2024.