The Florida governor and potential presidential contender used his inauguration address to target his favorite bogeyman.

The new GOP House majority predictably got bogged down in infighting over who will hold the speaker’s gavel. How many days of disarray are yet to come?

An on-the-ground report on the movement trying to rewrite the Constitution—and arm supporters along the way

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

Katherine Clark is now the highest-ranking woman in Congress. Will she and the new Democrats atop the House remake the party, or just carry on the last generation’s legacy?

Here are the in-depth stories our editors and readers alike loved this year.

As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?

The Nebraska senator is finally getting out of politics after years of never really getting into it.

The former NFL player is embroiled in what may be Mississippi’s biggest corruption scandal ever: the misuse of welfare funds for ego projects that did nothing to help the state’s poor people.

The party now has complete control in Lansing. Time to repeal the state’s anti-union right-to-work law.

The Islamic Republic’s theocratic elite are on the ropes.

After the Supreme Court gutted rules to protect unions, the Freedom Foundation has been on a national mission to erode labor’s base of support.

The disgraced Los Angeles councilman says he wants to address homelessness. Advocates say he’s hurting any real progress.

After the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, the country changed forever.

At long last, are the doors closing in on him?

The right-wing writer and podcaster has raised his profile by spreading grotesque conspiracy theories about “grooming” and pedophilia in the LGBTQ community.

This was the year the Saudi strongman was supposed to become a pariah. Instead, he’s gotten away with murder.

The Virginian represented one of the swingiest House seats in the country but still staked her reelection on defending democracy and investigating what actually happened on January 6.

It wasn’t great, but the 1970s did not return, and in 2023 the economic indicator we’ll be talking about will be unemployment.

The January 6 committee’s damning final report makes clear that the former president sought to steal the 2020 election by force. Will Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice take the baton?