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Kevin McCarthy finally did it. On Wednesday, by an overwhelming bipartisan vote including the vast majority of Republicans, the House finally passed...
Thomas Massie drives a Tesla with a “friends of coal” vanity plate and walks around Capitol Hill wearing an electronic debt clock on his lapel...
A top leader in the organization that puts on CPAC, the highly influential conference of conservative leaders, resigned on Tuesday night, citing...
Ron DeSantis’s campaign has been predicated on his competence. Unlike the undisciplined Donald Trump, he won’t lash out on Twitter, get consumed...
South Carolina’s Republican Sen. Tim Scott will formally announce Monday that he is running for president in 2024. The announcement, which will be...
Recently, some of the most attention-getting debates in Washington have been outside Congress. As in literally just outside Congress. That’s where...
If Democrats have their way, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will join two felons and three Confederate sympathizers in being expelled from the House of...
Over the past decade, the United States has gone through a series of standoffs over the federal budget and the debt limit with an ever-changing cast...
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of wire fraud and money laundering in federal court in New York and was released...
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will reportedly be indicted on Wednesday in federal court in New York. The federal charges come after Santos has faced a...
The biggest race of 2023 is in Kentucky, and it’s not the Derby. Instead, the reelection bid by the state’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear will be...
One of the great reminders for many Americans during the course of Donald Trump’s two presidential elections was how little the popular vote matters...
Joe Biden’s announcement of his candidacy released Tuesday is the incumbent’s fourth bid for the Democratic nomination for the presidency. It will...
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy jump-started the game of chicken over whether the United States will default on its debt when he announced the...
Embattled incumbent Rep. George Santos (R-NY) announced on Monday that he would seek reelection to Congress. Santos’s announcement, posted on...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed paperwork on Wednesday to challenge Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential primary. It’s the third time a member of...
Most criminal defendants would not immediately go on national television and attack the judge and the judge’s family only hours after being...
Thursday night was the most cringe moment in American politics since the high times of the #resistance in the early Trump administration. After news...
This week, Donald Trump faced indictment and Ron DeSantis faced Piers Morgan, and it’s clear DeSantis is the one hurting. It’s not just that...
If there is any American politician who Donald Trump resembles the least, it’s Eugene Debs. Debs ran for president five times for the Socialist...
Some call him Miles Guo. Others call him Guo Wengui. To top Trump allies like Steve Bannon and Jason Miller, he is an ally and a business partner....
The biography of newly elected Congress member George Santos seemed quite impressive. The 34-year-old son of immigrants had graduated from Baruch...
A Republican operative identified himself Wednesday as the man who filed a January lawsuit alleging sexual battery and defamation against Matt Schlapp...
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was once a marquee event on the political calendar where Republicans seeking the favor of the...
Donald Trump is many things, but whatever he is, it’s not a Reagan Republican. Speaking in one of his trademark discursive speeches to the...
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was once the place to capture the pulse of the conservative movement. The annual conference, which...
In 2023, just as in 2022, a select committee of the House of Representatives held its first hearing in primetime and discussed a topic that everyone...
Americans have long admired the raucous debate in the British Parliament. John McCain even ran for president promising to bring Prime Minister’s...
Americans have long admired the raucous debate of the British Parliament. John McCain even ran for president promising to bring Prime Minister’s...
Ruben Gallego has a problem. It’s not just that he is on stop 22 of what seems to be a never-ending media tour after announcing his U.S. Senate...
For ten long years, Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds loomed over the electoral process that determines who gets inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame....
Kevin McCarthy wanted to be Speaker in the worst way possible. And early Saturday morning, he got his wish. After more than four days, 15 ballots, and...
Once people would come to Congress for entertainment. The visitors gallery on Capitol Hill was a hot ticket for those looking to watch human drama and...
In his efforts to appease the far right of his conference, Kevin McCarthy has gone to just about every length possible over the past two years. From...