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The Jan. 6, 2021, attempted insurrection helped inspire the simulation role-playing exercise that is the subject of the documentary “War Game.”

Podcasts

‘War Game’: Rehearsing the uncomfortably plausible

Political Theater, Episode 343

By Jason Dick
Posted October 9, 2024 at 10:24am

Rep. David L. Hobson, R-Ohio, sits in the House Energy-Water Appropriations Subcommittee hearing room on June 9, 2006.

Congress

Former Rep. David Hobson, longtime appropriator, is dead at 87

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted October 7, 2024 at 2:39pm, Updated at 4:25pm
The Supreme Court's new term starts on Monday, Oct. 7.

Podcasts

A ‘sleepy’ Supreme Court term? Yeah, right

By Jason Dick, Todd Ruger and Michael Macagnone
Posted October 2, 2024 at 5:56pm
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, participate in a debate at the CBS Broadcast Center on Oct. 1, 2024, in New York City.

Campaigns

Fact-checking Vance’s health policy claims

By Ariel Cohen and Sandhya Raman
Posted October 2, 2024 at 4:29pm
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
Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential nominee, celebrates on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 22.

Harris ties Georgia deaths to Trump policies

By Sandhya Raman
Posted September 20, 2024 at 5:37pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. Three Republicans are squaring off Tuesday for the chance to face Warren in November.

Few GOP challengers in solidly blue Massachusetts

By Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted August 30, 2024 at 7:00am
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, celebrates on the final night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 22.

For progressives, praise for Harris’ economic agenda

By Daniela Altimari
Posted August 26, 2024 at 5:41pm
The Democratic Party is largely focused on the same issues and voters since the New Deal, Stu Rothenberg writes.

Still your father’s (and grandfather’s) Democratic Party

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted August 19, 2024 at 12:39pm
Vice President Kamala Harris, Democratic nominee for president, and her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, address a rally to kick off their campaign at the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia on Aug. 6.

Toss-up, but with an edge to Kamala Harris

By Stuart Rothenberg
Posted August 12, 2024 at 12:49pm