Over the last few weeks, I’ve been receiving a lot of questions about whether, even if Democrats win a House majority this ...

Susie Wiles, who now holds Priebus’ old job, can probably relate to that description. Trump seems to increasingly be making ...

Happy Monday morning! Some quick news from me before we dive in today: I’ve started a YouTube channel! I’ll be using the channel to post all sorts of videos explaining and analyzing our political ...

But first, let’s walk through a bit of the last year (and the last weekend) together: Back in April 2016, the Boston Globe’s opinion section published a satirical front page imagining what the first ...

Since the government shut down on October 1, the U.S. Senate has held 63 roll call votes. Senators may still be struggling to strike a spending deal, but you can’t say they haven’t been working on a ...

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In a newsletter last week, I laid out my standard for when I’ll use that label: if the executive ...

With the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second term in the rearview mirror, a new crop of media stories is starting to emerge: the tale of the regretful Trump voter. MSNBC: “One month into Trump’s second ...

The big news from Congress yesterday was the House passage of a continuing resolution (CR) that would keep the government open through the end of September, staving off a Friday shutdown deadline. I ...

How often midterm elections predict the next presidential election, and what 2026 will (and won’t) tell us about 2028 But first: I’ll give you a bit of a lay of the land for how I’m looking at the ...

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. When you were in elementary school, you probably learned a schema of the federal government that ...

President Donald Trump escalated his war with the press on Friday, announcing on Truth Social that he was banning three news outlets — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — from the White House. Correspondents ...

There’s a comedian named Joe Zimmerman who has a bit on — of all things — the U.S. tax system. The video is below, but it goes like this: My biggest fear about the government is just: taxes. I worry ...