Not only have Democrats been declared the winners in both the House and Senate, but they are on the verge of capturing ...

But then Joe Biden, who campaigned as a centrist, governed as a progressive, so the thermostat swung in the opposite direction, electing a Republican House in 2022 and then a Republican trifecta in ...

During the primary, two (or more) candidates bitterly spar over the direction of their party and who should be its ...

During Donald Trump’s first term, his then-chief of staff Reince Priebus referred to the times late at night that the president would be holed up at the White House all alone as “the witching hour,” ...

Presidential elections are certified on January 6th, a date that used to be anodyne but is now seared into the national memory. Congressional elections, meanwhile, reach their final stage on January ...

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In a newsletter last week, I laid out my standard for when I’ll use that label: if the executive ...

Here’s a puzzle for you. Democrats are posting a series of dazzling poll numbers in red states, far exceeding how Kamala Harris (or other recent Democratic presidential candidates) performed in these ...

With the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second term in the rearview mirror, a new crop of media stories is starting to emerge: the tale of the regretful Trump voter. MSNBC: “One month into Trump’s second ...

How often midterm elections predict the next presidential election, and what 2026 will (and won’t) tell us about 2028 But first: I’ll give you a bit of a lay of the land for how I’m looking at the ...

There’s a comedian named Joe Zimmerman who has a bit on — of all things — the U.S. tax system. The video is below, but it goes like this: My biggest fear about the government is just: taxes. I worry ...

Gerald Ford faced a dilemma. Five days after he ascended to the vice presidency, lawmakers unveiled a bill to rename a federal building in Ford’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in his honor.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is upset that the Senate has gone on recess while the Department of Homeland Security shutdown stretches into its 45th day. That makes two of us. The DHS is the country’s ...