In his 1836 eulogy of James Madison, John Quincy Adams called the late president the “Father of the Constitution.” It ...
Media stories erupted recently about Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) financial dealings. “Stock market watchdog claims Nancy Pelosi raked in $4.7M in a single ...
As a constitutional matter, was President Trump required to have congressional authorization before he militarily struck Iran’s nuclear facilities? The ...
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 ...
Clash of the titans. Source: Google Gemini. On May 28, Elon Musk, de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency ...
Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VII: The Ambiguous Legacy of Andrew Jackson , American Enterprise Institute, May 2025. Unlike his predecessors, ...
The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself ...
If you listen to how Republicans in Washington talk about federal spending these days, you might imagine that we have ...
Caucuses, caucuses everywhere. Source: Rep. Ritchie Torres, X.com. House Republicans are battling over what should be included Donald Trump’s “one, big, ...
Everyone who follows American politics is going to spend a lot of time thinking about presidential and judicial power over ...
House Republicans recently sank numerous Democratic efforts to investigate President Donald Trump’s administration, but anyone who is not a close watcher of Congress would ...
The Constitution designates Congress as the lawmaking institution in our federal government. Yet, an enormous amount of lawmaking gets done ...
“Liberation Week” was quite the wild ride. On Thursday, April 2, President Donald Trump announced, in an executive order, that ...
The “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been hard to pin down. In the wake of last year’s election, Elon ...
On April 14, 2025, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released this educational video. The Constitution designates Congress as the primary ...
Near the outset of Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice in Wonderland, Alice ...
Late in March, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives turned their energies to appliances. They passed two resolutions to strike down energy ...
Jay Cost, How Congress Lost, Part VI: Madison, Monroe, and the Republican Presidency, American Enterprise Institute, March 2025. Jay Cost reminds ...
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