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Rep. Josh Harder (D-Calif.) arrives to the U.S. Capitol during the last votes of the week on Thursday, May 1, 2025.

Campaigns & Elections Assessing the role of candidate quality in the 2026 midterms

Elaine Kamarck

September 25, 2025

FILE PHOTO: Pro-Trump protesters storm into the U.S. Capitol during clashes with police, during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo

U.S. Government & Politics What former lawmakers reveal about the strain on American democracy

Raymond La Raja, Alex Theodoridis

September 24, 2025

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

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