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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson gives remarks during the Opening of the 119th Congress in the House Chambers of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025. Republicans re-elected Mike Johnson to Speaker of the House after conservative holdouts changed their votes to Johnson.

Congress Surprisingly, Democrats—not Republicans—will be calling for a shutdown this year

Wendell Primus, Molly E. Reynolds

September 18, 2025

National Guard troops patrol outside of the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on August 20, 2025. The week prior, President Donald Trump invoked section 740 of Washington, D.C.'s Home Rule Act of 1973, federalizing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and deploying National Guard troops, citing crime-fighting reasons. Bryan Dozier/NurPhoto

Cities & Communities The war over federalism

William G. Gale, Darrell M. West

September 17, 2025

International Affairs Are President Trump’s tariffs legal?

William A. Galston

September 12, 2025

As Americans head to the polls to vote in the 2022 midterm elections, voters trickle into the Alexandria Fire Department Headquarters Station Number 4 in Alexandria, Virginia, on Tuesday, November 8, 2022.

U.S. Government & Politics What history tells us about the 2026 midterm elections

William A. Galston

August 28, 2025

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