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The politics of the party have shifted, with more of the GOP base reliant on welfare programs. But policy hasn’t followed.
Republicans saw Obamacare as the golden opportunity to take back the House in 2010. Now, Democrats are eyeing the "big, beautiful bill" as their path to victory.
Shortly into Ronald Reagan’s presidency, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave a speech at the Heritage Foundation in which she described America’s foreign policy before Reagan as ...
President Donald Trump has said he may invoke the Insurrection Act, a law that grants the president the authority to deploy ...
The political success of members of Congress has become increasingly tied up with the success or failure of the president. Because nearly all Republicans hail from districts and states that are very ...
Donald Trump calls her the “Ice Maiden.” But in person, the very private White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is warm and ...
When President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign advisers were planning a key West Coast swing through Washington, Oregon ...
In the first five months of the 119th Congress, House Republicans have proposed at least eight bills to honor the current ...
He spoke, and spoke and spoke — for eight hours and 44 minutes. Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries delivered a record-breaking ...
Wattenberg’s career was built on the mastery of data. Long before Google, he immersed himself in facts and figures, poring over government reports and academic journals to understand the latest ...
The bill has to pass the House again before the president can sign it into law, and the difficulty for Republicans is not ...
“Defund the Police” was a chant after George Floyd’s murder, but the Democratic Party never embraced it. The defense budget has gone up under Democratic and Republican administrations alike.