Nowadays people complain about the tedious pace of Senate business. The upper chamber empowers the minority party and even a ...
Jay Cost, What Does It Mean to be Madisonian? American Enterprise Institute, March 2026. The word "Madisonian" tends to refer to ...
Daniel Webster was one of the greatest orator-politicians in the history of the United States. A relentless defender of the ...
What is the proper role of the judiciary in American political life? There has never been a clear answer to ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part IX: Resilient Corruption and an Emerging Progressive Critique in the Late 19th Century, American ...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives is one of the most prominent positions in the entire United States government ...
There have been many great men and women to sit in the House and the Senate. Few, however, have rivalled ...
On October 1, 2025 the United States federal government “shut down.” This is not the first time it has happened. ...
In today’s American political system, the president is the unquestioned leader. But this was not how the framers of the ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VIII: Patronage and the Emergence of Senatorial Hegemony, American Enterprise Institute, September 12, 2025. This ...
In the pantheon of the heroes of the early republic, certain names stand out: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, ...
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency in Washington, D.C., and took control of the Metropolitan ...
Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, the parties are playing hardball. Texas Republicans have convened a special session of their ...
The House of Representatives recessed on Wednesday this week. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) made this move to head off a ...
In his 1836 eulogy of James Madison, John Quincy Adams called the late president the “Father of the Constitution.” It ...
President Donald Trump's recent authorization of the use of “bunker-buster” bombs against Iranian nuclear facilities has touched off a debate ...
Congress continues to debate the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda for his ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VII: The Ambiguous Legacy of Andrew Jackson , American Enterprise Institute, May 2025. Unlike his predecessors, ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VI: Madison, Monroe, and the Republican Presidency, American Enterprise Institute, March 2025. Jay Cost reminds ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part V: Politics and Presidential Power Under Adams and Jefferson, 1797-1809, American Enterprise Institute, February ...
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