Families with school-age kids have borne the brunt of the pandemic. Will they make themselves heard at the ballot box?

Amy McGrath and other Senate candidates deceived donors to rake in far more cash than their Republican opponents. They got crushed anyway.

The not-funny names that lawmakers invent to sell their policy ideas are evidence of a legislative body in deep decline.

The country is facing a humanitarian crisis, and countless allies remain trapped there, but Congress and the White House continue to dither.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are teeming with ideas to halt the practice of self-enrichment. Which one will they choose?

Why congressional staffers are pushing to unionize their offices on Capitol Hill

The Competes Act sailed through where Build Back Better floundered. That’s a troubling sign of politicians’ priorities.

The House passed the China competitiveness bill, which includes funding to shore up faltering supply chains.

Senator Mitt Romney’s child allowance proposal may offer a basis for future bipartisan negotiations.

Experts and politicians agree: The measure is in desperate need of reform, in order to avoid a repeat of 2020 in 2024.

The California representative says Build Back Better needs to get pared down to some urgent essentials.

Cutting the Build Back Better Act into “chunks” would be painful, but it may be the last chance in a long time to pass ambitious, enduring climate policy.

Biden’s approval rating on the virus is bleak, but Democrats’ fortunes in 2022 could quickly change if the pandemic becomes endemic.

Georgia Republicans redrew her district to make it more Democratic, and she faces a primary challenge that could be serious. It’s not impossible.

Biden’s forceful condemnation of Trump reminded the public that the choice is between democracy and authoritarian rule.

January 6 was the biggest shock to our republic since JFK’s assassination—and in many ways, much more frightening.

How the Maryland representative became the man for this historical moment

In the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of overdose deaths surged past 100,000 for the first time in 2021.

If a lot of things break their way, the Democrats could defy history in the midterm elections. But man, that would need to be a whole lot of things.

In order to avert a catastrophe for democracy, the party must get over its Joe Manchin problem ahead of the 2022 midterms.