The Republican nominee for speaker spent his day doing what his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, did best—not getting enough votes to win the gavel.

The Ohioian, who combines an extreme lack of interest in governing with a governing interest in extremism, would be the perfect leader of this lapsed party.

After several weeks of extended chaos, it’s possible the lower chamber will be permanently changed by the GOP’s intraparty fracas.

The GOP can’t evade the structural realities that make it so hard to elect a speaker—and which will make it impossible for that new speaker to govern.

The Republican Party’s sequel to last January’s Kevin McCarthy crisis is not going well.

The Republican representative has a troubling history of campaign donations from Big Tech—and it’s spilling into the rest of his work.

There’s a procedural way out of this madness—if a few Republicans have the guts to pursue it.

The Republicans may finally prove true an old leftist aphorism.

To say that anyone outside of the House GOP caucus had a hand in McCarthy’s downfall requires superhuman amounts of ignorance.

The House Republican effort to make a case against Joe Biden is mostly blundering—but their collective face-plant can still cause some significant damage.

Conservatism is no longer defined by resistance to liberal progress—it’s all about destroying the pillars of our democracy.

The House GOP’s crank caucus have been historically unproductive at governing—but that doesn’t mean they’ve done nothing.

The GOP’s big project isn’t creating jobs or beating inflation, it’s trying to make their weird and ever expanding canon of lore and grievances make sense.

And politicians, despite their posturing, don’t care about any of them.

Democratic lawmakers have a golden opportunity to distinguish themselves from Kevin McCarthy’s army of weirdos.

What, you didn’t know the U.S. defense establishment is captive to the far left? Pay attention!

The final hearing of the January 6 committee showed that the former president was far from alone in fomenting the insurrection.

The House select committee will hold eight hearings in June. They’re its one shot at making Americans care about the attempted coup d’état we all saw.

His walk-back of an irresponsible statement that launched the Trumpy right into hyperspace could be a sign that he actually has some integrity.

Next year, Jordan may chair the Judiciary Committee. What’s he going to think of people spurning congressional subpoenas then?