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Mike Johnson, the accidental Speaker of the House, has spent his seven months in power trying to be everything to everyone. Hard-right conservatives...
Mike Johnson, the accidental Speaker of the House, has spent his seven months in power trying to be everything to everyone. Hard-right conservatives...
Tweet Share Share Comment An impeachment trial is supposed to be a big deal. The trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro...
Hudson County, New Jersey, is one of the country’s last remaining redoubts of old-fashioned machine politics where, just across the river from the...
Hudson County, New Jersey, is one of the country’s last remaining redoubts of old-fashioned machine politics where, just across the river from the...
Tweet Share Share Comment There was not much glory in Nikki Haley’s first victory of the 2024 presidential primary. About...
If Trump rallies are for his fans, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is for his zealots. In his keynote address to the conference on...
If Trump rallies are for his fans, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is for his zealots. In his keynote address to the conference on...
CPAC is one of the biggest Trumpist gatherings of the year, and on Friday the rockstar was Elise Stefanik, the New York congresswoman and former...
It was one of the biggest Trumpist gatherings of the year and Elise Stefanik was a rock star. Cheered for her speech and celebrated afterwards, the...
Ralph Norman is the rare Republican to buck Trump and live to tell the tale.
The former British prime minister spoke in a hotel conference room that was less than half full.
Even the race to replace George Santos in Congress is packed with drama. The historic expulsion of Santos in December has prompted a rare special...
Eight years ago, Donald Trump’s opponents for the Republican presidential nomination were convinced that if the field had just cleared and turned it...
After months of setbacks that culminated in a second-place finish in the Iowa Republican caucuses last week, Ron DeSantis suspended his campaign...
Manchester, New Hampshire — “It makes me sick” to criticize President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips says in a windowless room of his campaign...
Clive Fields flew into Iowa from Texas to vouch for Ron DeSantis’s campaign at a caucus site inside a former lumber store in Urbandale. Beginning at...
The scene on a cool Sunday morning in Osceola, Iowa, could have been out of a movie about the Iowa caucuses. Roughly 40 people had gathered in a...
On the Saturday before the Iowa caucus, Ron DeSantis stopped in the small city of Atlantic for a meet and greet with roughly two dozen voters and two...
If only the Des Moines suburbs voted, Nikki Haley would win the Iowa caucuses in a landslide. On Thursday, at her first public event after her debate...
It’s hard to think of a scenario where Republicans reject Donald Trump as their presidential candidate. Despite his 91 criminal charges and one...
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito was too close to the scandal for his own liking. Now, he’s ready to get on with a more “normal” neighbor.
In over two centuries, the House of Representatives has expelled members for only two reasons: being a Confederate and being a convict. On Thursday,...
Tweet Share Share Comment For all of Donald Trump’s rhetorical innovations, personality quirks, and alleged criminal...
George Santos officially has more friends in Washington than in New York. A majority of the House voted against a resolution to expel him on Wednesday...
On Wednesday, Congress finally reopened. After more than three weeks without a speaker, the elevation of the previously obscure Mike Johnson of...
At 12:17 p.m. on Tuesday, Tom Emmer became the Republican nominee for House Speaker. At 4:27 p.m. that same day, the No. 3 Republican in the House...
House Republicans haven’t been terribly successful at many things this year. They struggled to keep the government open and to keep the United...
The House of Representatives has traditionally had elected its speaker by a simple system. Each party would hold an internal vote to pick its nominee...
Tweet Share Share Comment The second-biggest question in the Capitol right now is who will be the speaker of the House. The...
The vote to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week was another clear indicator that the House of Representatives is becoming something un-American....
Tweet Share Share Comment In January, the process of electing Kevin McCarthy to be Speaker of the House was a circus. It lasted...
Tweet Share Share Comment America is a weird country, and that was very clearly on display on Monday in Philadelphia. Speaking to a crowd of...
This week’s battle for the Speaker’s gavel among House Republicans won’t be like a normal election. There will be no exit polls or campaign ads....
Tweet Share Share Comment The marvel of Wile E. Coyote isn’t that he eventually falls off the cliff but that he makes it so...
Kevin McCarthy is poised to become the first Speaker of the House in American history to be formally voted out of his position on Tuesday thanks to a...
Minutes after setting in motion the first vote to oust a sitting Speaker of the House in over a century, Matt Gaetz declared that going after Kevin...
On Saturday, Congress narrowly averted a government shutdown with only hours to spare. Now the real crisis begins. Appearing on television on Sunday,...
With only hours to spare, Congress on Saturday narrowly avoided a government shutdown. The Senate approved a bill to keep the government open for the...
Representative Jamaal Bowman of New York was accused of deliberately pulling a fire alarm in a House office building this morning in the hours before...
The impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden was already a disappointment before it started on Thursday. In prepared testimony, two of the three witnesses...
A decade ago, Kristen Daddow-Rodriguez was a loyal Republican. Raised in Michigan, she voted automatically for the GOP in each election, even though...
It was a day like many others. An interested crowd settled into a well-lit conference room for a presentation in Washington D.C. on Wednesday....
Mounting a primary challenge to an incumbent president is perhaps the most difficult task in American politics. It’s so difficult that no one has...