Seven years ago last month, President Donald Trump remarked that he had “an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.” This statement was widely mocked during his first term ...

Republican and Democratic challengers are both using the issue to attack members of Congress as unethical, seizing on a common practice that enrages voters. By Annie Karni Reporting from Washington ...

Fourteen state legislatures have passed a resolution asking for something Congress could, in theory, hand them for free: term limits on its own members. They aren't asking Congress to pass a law. They ...

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The Supreme Court’s ruling to limit a key part of the landmark Voting Rights Act this week adds a new bend to the winding history of Black representation in Congress, fueling fear from civil rights ...

This week, Congress celebrated a rare bipartisan victory after overwhelmingly passing the largest housing affordability bill in a generation. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump was set to sign it ...

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Operation Epic Fury is over. Or at least, that’s what the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced on May 5, describing any further US action in the Gulf as purely “defensive”. Rubio’s insistence ...

Congress’s most important job is deciding how federal money is spent. It hasn’t passed annual funding bills on time since 1997. And the normal act of budget-making has become all but impossible, with ...

The promise of democratic governance was stolen from the people. We must win it back. You will hear no more disorienting or self-defeating a platitude uttered on Capitol Hill in this 250th year of the ...

President Donald Trump’s obsession with unfounded claims of election fraud has defined his second term in office. But in recent months his fixation has moved from executive nominee litmus tests and ...