Republicans are doing their best to get blamed for a shutdown

Will this be the least important presidential debate in U.S. history?

It is very easy to be cynical, so let’s indulge that. At some point in time, presumably, political debates were meaningful. Observers watching

Court rulings poised to play pivotal role in battle for Congress

The impeachment inquiry is starting exactly as might have been expected

When the Democratic majority in the House held the first public hearing in its 2019 impeachment inquiry targeting President Trump, it heard

Menendez, facing more calls to resign, to address fellow Senate Democrats

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), facing more calls for his resignation from senior Democrats, will address his party’s Senate caucus on Thursday, and

Sen. Bob Menendez faces rapidly growing calls from colleagues to resign

Cassidy Hutchinson on Gaetz dating claim: ‘I have much higher standards’

Cassidy Hutchinson could only awkwardly laugh after Rachel Maddow listed Hutchinson’s encounters with Rudy Giuliani and President Donald Trump that the former

Another campaign, another outrage over ‘free phones’

It was one of Donald Trump’s familiar asides, offered not in the monotone he uses when powering through the text on the

Bending to right, McCarthy pushes safety net cuts in shutdown battle

Cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 percent as soaring rents drive a national affordability crisis. Forcing more than 1 million

Gun laws become a 2024 issue in an unexpected way

One of the patterns to Donald Trump’s bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has been to promise to spend money without