U.S. Politics & Government

Police officers stand guard as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The security threat hiding in plain sight

Daniel L. Byman

Thursday, January 7, 2021

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (L) attends a bilateral meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Washington March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Biden and Erdoğan are trapped in a double fantasy

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş and Jeremy Shapiro

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

A voter casts her ballot in the run-off election featuring incumbent Republican U.S. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, at the polling site at the Dunbar Neighborhood Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy

Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, David Harshbarger, and Anthony Fiano

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks 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/Jim Bourg

How can we prevent Trump-like presidents in the future?

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Georgia runoff election campaign signs

Will white women in Georgia put family or culture war first?

Isabel V. Sawhill and Morgan Welch

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Divided Flag

How Biden can rebuild a divided and distrustful nation

Isabel V. Sawhill

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Susan Rice, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden's appointee to be director of his Domestic Policy Council, speaks after Biden announced her appointment among another round of nominees and appointees for his administration during a news conference at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., December 11, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Under Susan Rice, will there be increased overlap between the Domestic Policy Council and the National Security Council?

Michael Sinclair

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on December 1, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As Congress returns from Thanksgiving recess for the lame duck session, the 7-day average for confirmed COVID-19 cases in America is holding above 150,000. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Who is—and isn’t—represented in environmental oversight in Congress

Mohammed Memfis, Molly E. Reynolds, and Jackson Gode

Monday, December 28, 2020

The Oval Office in the White House while John F. Kennedy was President 1963 © 2012 Mark Shaw

Organizing the presidency, from Roosevelt to Biden

Stephen Hess, James P. Pfiffner, and Bill Finan

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Census 2020 employee helps New Yorker fill census form at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem in New York on September 22, 2020 during Census Drive. Census Drive was coordinated with voter registration organized by Young Black Women protest group Freedom March NYC. (Photo by Lev Radin/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

The 2010s saw the lowest population growth in US history, new census estimates show

William H. Frey

Tuesday, December 22, 2020