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A Maracas Ice Pop is prepared during the Washington Nationals media preview day at Nationals Park on Friday, March 21, 2025.

The Thai popcorn does not detract

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:26am
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Democrats had months to head off Schumer’s no-win dilemma

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted March 27, 2025 at 5:30am
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., in August 1988.

Louisiana’s former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston dead at 92

By Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:19pm
Materials from this year’s Gridiron dinner, a tradition that dates to 1885.

At the Gridiron, laughter in the dark

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 19, 2025 at 6:36pm
A health care worker conducts a COVID-19 test at a drive-thru testing facility at George Washington University on May 5, 2020.

On COVID-19 anniversary, concerns about the lessons unlearned

By Lia DeGroot
Posted March 13, 2025 at 7:00am
Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading “This is not normal” as President Donald Trump enters the House chamber on Tuesday night to deliver his address to a joint session of Congress.

Protest, retreat, hide? Congressional behavior, 2025-style

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted March 6, 2025 at 4:05pm
President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol on March 4. Columnist Steven Pearlstein writes that Democrats have more options in how they go about their business.

A third way for congressional Democrats

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted March 6, 2025 at 3:56pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., hold a media availability in the Capitol on “legislative proposals to fight the chaos of the Trump administration” on Feb. 4. Not everyone in the Democratic base is impressed with their approach so far.

For Democrats, it’s time to get rude

By Christina Bellantoni
Posted March 4, 2025 at 6:00am
Josh Hawley is among the Senate Republicans who are unenthusiastic about the House’s proposed cuts to Medicaid.

‘Yeah, I don’t love that,’ or how the House learned to start jamming the Senate

By Jason Dick and David Lerman
Posted February 27, 2025 at 4:19pm
The U.S. Capitol dome is lit as the Senate voted late into the night and early morning last week on a budget resolution.

Polls: No really; it’s still the economy, stupid

By Jason Dick
Posted February 26, 2025 at 2:32pm