Turns out there are consequences for not having any policy ideas or purpose.

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.

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.

Steve Scalise dropped out of the speaker’s race just 30 hours after receiving his party’s nomination. Can any Republican lead the House?

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

Steve Scalise is struggling to secure enough votes, as more than a dozen Republicans oppose his candidacy.

Republicans have nominated Representative Steve Scalise as their next House speaker—and that speaks volumes.

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

Republicans wanted to have a televised House speaker debate. Then they came to their senses.

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

Kevin McCarthy’s fate may well be decided this week. If he’s out, who’s in? The list is short—and grim.

You’d think the connection between the weather and climate change would be obvious. But you haven’t discussed the matter with Republicans in Congress.

Buckle up, we’re about to find out how strange the GOP has become.

The chaotic race to be the next speaker of the House of Representatives is a preview of things to come now that Republicans have retaken the chamber.

As the GOP’s margin of victory in the House dwindles in the direction of single digits, so too go his chances of becoming speaker.

It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.

They tried to defend the president, and failed spectacularly. So now they’re keeping their mouths shut.

How gun culture and radical politics are combining to produce a new kind of zealot

The GOP is attempting to expose millions of Americans to the kind of financial ruin that he has avoided—for now.

Partisan polarization is getting worse, and gun control has stalled. But Democrats and Republicans can unite over treatment for troubled people.