The party had a hand in aiding the rise of a more extreme speaker. That may help with election-year messaging—but it could make things much worse.

The House speaker has an apocalyptic fervor for Israel—but it’s not what it seems.

Covenant Eyes, beloved by some Evangelicals, takes constant screenshots of the user’s activity. Unsurprisingly, the legal system has found a use for it too.

The new speaker’s doomed, ridiculous plan to trade funding for Israel for IRS cuts suggests he is even more powerless than Kevin McCarthy.

What links his election denial and his anti-gay policies is his belief that he’s a member of a persecuted minority.

Mike Johnson is an extremist in every way that matters.

The next task for a divided Congress is to find a way to put the “fun” back in “government funding.”

The chaos of the past few weeks has revived the notion that Donald Trump’s rise was precipitated by the Democrats’ rough treatment of the Utah senator.

The upper chamber’s GOP members greeted the new speaker in the House with bemusement—and the need to google him.