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U.S. President Donald Trump talks with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol Agent while participating in a tour of U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California. U.S., March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - HP1EE3D1KSH5O

Rebuffed by Congress, Trump resorts to old ideas on the border

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speak with the media about the ongoing Russia investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - RC1ABEC21B30

The cautionary tale of the House Intelligence Committee’s recent failures

Casey Burgat and Daniel Schuman

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

A man carries flowers outside a county office on Valentine's Day in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., February 14, 2018. Picture taken February 14, 2018. REUTERS/Maranie Staab - RC164B0CD210

Is Constitutional Localism the answer to what ails American democracy?

Michael Hais, Doug Ross, and Morley Winograd

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (L) and Attorney General Jeff Sessions wait for the start of ceremonies as the late evangelist Billy Graham lies in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. February 28, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - HP1EE2S19RT18

Trump’s Census policy could boomerang and hurt red states as well as blue states

Friday, March 30, 2018

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (C), flanked by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (from L), White House senior advisor Jared Kushner, National Security Council Middle East adviser Michael Bell, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (2nd R) and ?Vice President Mike Pence? (R), attends Kuwait's Emir Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and U.S. President Donald Trump's news conference after their meetings at the White House in Washington, U.S. September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1CCFBA2E30

McMaster out and turnover on the White House “A Team” continues at a steady clip

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Thursday, March 22, 2018

Illinois' 3rd Congressional District candidate for Congress, Marie Newman, arrives to vote in the Democratic Party's congressional primary election at the Lyons Township in La Grange, Illinois, U.S. March 20, 2018. REUTERS/Kamil Krzaczynski - RC1B57676BA0

What do the Illinois primary elections tell us?

Elaine Kamarck and Alexander Podkul

Thursday, March 22, 2018

U.S. Democratic congressional candidate Conor Lamb is greeted by supporters during his election night rally in Pennsylvania's 18th U.S. Congressional district special election against Republican candidate and State Rep. Rick Saccone, in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC190011A7B0

Score one for the smoke-filled room: Why Conor Lamb’s victory was a win for party politicians

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. opioid crisis, at Manchester Community College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S. March 19, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1266D6A610

Comparing Trump to the greatest—and the most polarizing—presidents in US history

Gregory Eady, Justin S. Vaughn, and Brandon Rottinghaus

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

U.S. Government Publishing Office employee Darlene Matthews arranges new copies of President Donald Trump's Budget for the U.S. Government for the Fiscal Year 2019 at the U.S. Government Publishing Office in Washington, U.S., February 12, 2018.

The politics and tradeoffs of congressional budget process reform

Molly E. Reynolds

Monday, March 19, 2018

A woman, who has been displaced by floods, uses a USAID box to move her belongings while taking refuge on an embankment at Chandan Mori village in Dadu, some 320 km (199 miles) north of Karachi October 10, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) - RTXT9RN

Americans overestimate foreign aid? Not so fast.

Vanessa Williamson

Monday, March 19, 2018

Police officers stand in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Thayer - RC1AECFD3360

For Democrats and public workers, there’s a lot at stake in the Supreme Court’s Janus decision

Vanessa Williamson

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Boys stand on an empty lot where a house once stood in Joplin, Missouri May 15, 2012. May 22 marks the one year anniversary of a deadly EF-5 tornado that ripped through the town, killing 161 people. The tornado damaged or destroyed about 7,500 homes and 500 other buildings, but the city is now well into a recovery mode that has spurred some segments of the local economy. REUTERS/Eric Thayer (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT) - GM1E85G0VL101

A New Deal for poor African-American and Native-American boys

Camille Busette

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump points at supporters after speaking in support of Republican congressional candidate Rick Saccone during a Make America Great Again rally in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, U.S., March 10, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - HP1EE3B05DFC5

Is Trump getting away with it? The answer from Pennsylvania 18

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off his plane as he arrives to the presidential hangar in Mexico City, Mexico February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Romero TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC184D3ADC70

Tillerson is out as secretary of state and Haley just dodged a bullet

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

American flag seen along Wyoming Highway 59

Is public sentiment shifting toward support of authoritarianism? Not really.

William A. Galston

Tuesday, March 13, 2018