An explosive first hearing promised a string of revelations that could match the last time Congress checked a presidential threat to democracy.

The raring-to-go House voted on a package of gun safety bills, but the filibuster-fied Senate is working on a slow-but-steady timetable.

Advocates say there is more momentum than ever before. But nothing is guaranteed.

The president is walking a fine line between pushing meaningful legislation and alienating Republican senators.

It’d likely be a decades-long campaign, but it’s long past time to take disarming America seriously.

There are better things for the former New York City mayor to do.

Sam Bankman-Fried may have lost in Oregon, but he and other crypto big shots have discovered politics. What will Democrats do for them in return?

China is trying to shut U.S. companies out of Southeast Asia. We can’t let that happen.

Democrats in New York gerrymandered too close to the sun, and now they’re paying the price.

The government may be able to provide a quick fix to the deepening emergency. Solving the problem’s root cause will be substantially more difficult.

In an interview with The New Republic, Kansas’s lone Democrat says she’s focused on boosting the economic fortunes of her constituents and staving off the effects of inflation.

The resolution will hit the House floor this week. It’s time for Democrats to live up to their stated principles.

A new book reveals that GOP aides wanted the party to back MTG’s primary opponent—but McCarthy, afraid of Donald Trump’s reaction, killed the idea.

The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.

Yes, the former president is vain, and the House minority leader crossed him. But the briefly disloyal Republican may yet be spared.

His budget proposal to tax the wealth of America’s top plutocrats may face an uphill battle in Congress, but it signals a new midterm message.

A fiscal crisis is looming for the childcare industry, and the Democrats don’t have the votes to do anything about it.

With fears of a new Covid variant rising, legislators are dithering on providing enough money for testing and care.

Congress can’t pass laws, so Democrats want Biden to issue more executive orders. But the conservative Supreme Court often rejects such orders, requiring Congress to pass a law. But Congress can’t pass laws …

All this shouting about clocks is actually another pitched battle over the primacy of automobiles in our politics.