It is an honor to respond to my colleague Philip Wallach’s comprehensive and depressingly persuasive overview of the self-inflicted irrelevance of Congress. ...
I began my career in the Senate chamber as a page, the junior-most staff member in the body. From the ...
On February 7, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado offered the following advice on X: “Dear Speaker Johnson, Simply pass every executive order ...
Something remarkable occurred on Capitol Hill this month: Congress and the president partnered to make a law that cut the budgets of ...
Donald J. Trump, signing ceremony for the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, July 4, 2025. Source: White House Instagram. On ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last year, the U.S. government made at least $162 billion in improper payments, according to a nonpartisan government watchdog. Kristin Kociolek of ...
President-elect Donald Trump and senior advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the co-chairs of the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, ...
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