U.S. Politics & Government

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to supporters during a campaign rally at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S., November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo - RC13BA61D600

Three reasons you should be startled by how the Senate rebuked Trump

Sarah A. Binder

The Washington Post Friday, December 14, 2018

Students hold signs while rallying in the street during the "March for Our Lives" demanding stricter gun control laws at the Miami Beach Senior High School, in Miami, Florida, U.S., March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Javier Galeano - RC1C60279010

Six years after Sandy Hook, House Democrats can build on grassroots gun reform

Friday, December 14, 2018

A thriving marijuana plant is seen at a grow operation in Denver, Colorado December 31, 2013. REUTERS/Rick Wilking/File Photo - RTSJ4EC

The Farm Bill, hemp legalization and the status of CBD: An explainer

Friday, December 14, 2018

Donald Trump signing executive order to roll back Dodd-Frank

Tracking deregulation in the Trump era

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly arrives for the Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons annual meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 11, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1AF68C68D0

In search of a third chief of staff, Trump sets a record

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Monday, December 10, 2018

A sign points towards voting booths during the midterm election at Philomont Fire Station, in Purcellville, Virginia, U.S., November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Al Drago - RC1C4591A6A0

Understanding the election scandal in North Carolina’s 9th district

Molly E. Reynolds

Friday, December 7, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Tracking turnover in the Trump administration

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Elaine Kamarck, and Nicholas W. Zeppos

Friday, December 7, 2018

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

When does better policy information change minds?

Vanessa Williamson

Friday, December 7, 2018

An armed U.S. Marshall stands outside federal court in Brooklyn before the court appearance of Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, of Neptune, New Jersey, in the borough of Brooklyn in New York

Appellate Court vacancies may be scarce in coming years, limiting Trump’s impact

Russell Wheeler

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Front Cover: Bit Player

Stories from a life with presidents and ideas

Stephen Hess and Bill Finan

Friday, November 30, 2018

An Occupy Wall Street movement activist raises his fist while protesting in front of a digital flag of the United States in Manhattan's Time Square in New York on July 17, 2012. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) - GM1E87I0W6M01

Malevolent soft power, AI, and the threat to democracy

Thursday, November 29, 2018

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) makes remarks a day after the Midterm Elections, in which the Senate Republicans retained their majority as the House saw Democrats sweep into control, and a possible return as Speaker for Pelosi, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 7, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Theiler - RC1EAA04BEA0

Four key questions about Nancy Pelosi’s bid to be the next speaker of the House

Molly E. Reynolds

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon speaks during a campaign event for Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Judge Roy Moore in Fairhope, Alabama, U.S., December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman - RC12533091D0

Nationalists of the world, unite?

Kemal Derviş and Caroline Conroy

Monday, November 26, 2018

U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi celebrates the Democrats winning a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in the U.S. midterm elections during a Democratic election night party in Washington, U.S. November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC15D633D420

The challenge of opposition leadership in the age of Trump

Linda Peek Schacht

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

The future of the defense budget

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EST

Pump jacks operate in front of a drilling rig in an oil field in Midland, Texas U.S. August 22, 2018. Picture taken August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Nick Oxford - RC1B5EE7E390

Unhappy anniversary: U.S. withdrawal from the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, one year later

Kelsey Landau and Norman Eisen

Friday, November 16, 2018

Incoming members of the U.S. House of Representatives pose for the 116th Congress Member-Elect Class Photo on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 14, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC1A419463F0

Legislation or gridlock after the 2018 midterms?

Sarah A. Binder, Molly E. Reynolds, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 16, 2018

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to supporters during a campaign rally at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S., November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo - RC13BA61D600

America’s place in the world depends on conditions at home (and the middle class)

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Mourners visit a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue, a day after 11 Jewish worshippers were shot dead in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 28, 2018. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton - HP1EEAS1UMVP2

In 1986, another anti-Semitic Pittsburgh shooter murdered my childhood friend

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Bit Player: My Life with Presidents and Ideas

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST