U.S. Politics & Government

U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he departs for travel to Florida from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

President Trump is hiding the modern-day Nixon tapes

Friday, January 24, 2020

A man runs past the U.S. Capitol dome early in the morning on another day of the continued impeachment inquiry hearings into President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Loren Elliott

Is bipartisan US support for Ukraine at risk?

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Staff gather as outgoing National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster walks out of the White House during his last day on the job in Washington, D.C., U.S. April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Crippling the capacity of the National Security Council

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Democratic presidential candidates entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Amy Klobuchar and billionaire activist Tom Steyer on the stage for the sixth 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidates campaign debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Kyle Grillot

Around the halls: What Brookings experts hope to hear in the Iowa debate

Suzanne Maloney, Natan Sachs, Aaron Klein, Molly E. Reynolds, and John Hudak

Monday, January 13, 2020

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC12E21409F0

Trump’s alarming deference to Putin and Lindsay Graham’s weird deference to Trump: This week in impeachment

Friday, December 20, 2019

People look at their smartphones in lower Manhattan in New York City, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RC1AD90F8460

Regulating fact from fiction: Disinformation in political advertising

Friday, December 20, 2019

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden greets Senator Bernie Sanders as Senator Amy Klobuchar looks on at the 2020 campaign debate at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, U.S., December 19, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake - HP1EFCK02SG02

The Democratic Debate: Sens. Klobuchar, Warren take on Mayor Pete

William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck

Friday, December 20, 2019

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, U.S., March 26, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC1CE3654EA0

Congress should revive the Office of Technology Assessment. Here’s how to do it

Grant Tudor and Justin Warner

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

An anti-government protester holds a Taiwan national flag as an U.S. flag flutters in the background during a demonstration to celebrate Taiwan's National Day at the Harbour city in Tsim Sha Tsui district, in Hong Kong, China October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha - RC19205F0000

Don’t let partisanship poison US-Taiwan relationship

Monday, December 16, 2019

Republican president-elect Donald Trump's Trump Tower is seen in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., November 27, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Ornitz

Why Trump’s tax returns are so important: This week in impeachment

Friday, December 13, 2019