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Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia caught an elevator...

A proposal to reform House elections and give more power to the people is gaining traction with...

Democratic lawmakers have swung behind a deranged plan to kick kids out of the United States that...

Proponents of “popularism” believe they have a plan to rescue the party’s electoral hopes, but they...

Bipartisanship might not be dead. But it is on life support. And it’s long past time we pulled the...

We ascribe too much meaning to the early years of the republic. It’s been some time since public...

Everything you think you know about how our democracy functions is about to change. It’s hard to...

Beltway pundits, finally wise to the fact that the president’s agenda faces long odds, have decided...

On Thursday, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire, putting a tentative end to 11 days of fighting...

Like the city itself, the push to grant Washington, D.C., autonomy and federal representation...

On Wednesday, after a speech that saw House Republicans quit the chamber in protest and a...

Early in the morning of April 1, Texas state Senator Bryan Hughes, a Republican who represents a...

As the Biden administration and Senate Democrats sort out how badly they want to govern,...

The debate over the territory’s status isn’t just dividing Washington. It’s dividing the island’s...

For lawmakers who want to pay lip service to policies they don’t actually want to enact, the...

On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a remarkable editorial framed as a breakup letter...

It’s not clear that the president even has a plan to pass the kind of legislation that would earn...

What counts as infrastructure? Critics of President Biden’s American Jobs Plan are already in a...

Democrats will either make a grand bargain with Republicans or go it alone. Either way, a...