Right now the process is underway to reach that final vote in the House to end this longest government shutdown ever. We also wanted to lay out how…
Read more House returns, set to end record-breaking government shutdownDonald Trump has “manufactured a crisis” to justify the notion of sending federalized national guard troops into Chicago next, over the heads of local leaders, a leading Democrat…
Read more Trump ‘manufactured crisis’ to justify plan to send national guard to Chicago, leading Democrat saysThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the last spring of the Obama administration, Michelle Obama was…
Read more Trump Voters Are America Too“I made history, didn’t I?” Kevin McCarthy was saying Tuesday night, a few hours after he in fact did, by becoming the first speaker of the House to…
Read more Kevin McCarthy Got What He WantedKevin McCarthy began his 269th day as House speaker by recounting all the times he proved his doubters wrong. In January, after a series of humiliating defeats, the…
Read more Kevin McCarthy’s Brief Speakership Meets Its EndAmong the things Jaime Herrera Beutler remembers about January 6, 2021, is that her husband managed to turn off the television just in time. He was at home…
Read more A Republican Congresswoman’s Lasting RegretMitch McConnell froze when a Capitol Police officer rushed into the Senate chamber carrying a semiautomatic weapon. The majority leader had been so engrossed in the Electoral College…
Read more The Inside Story of the GOP on January 6
