U.S. Politics & Government

Workers prepare the South Lawn for a ceremony for U.S. President Donald Trump to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 29, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Does impeachment require criminal behavior? In a word, “No”

Richard Lempert

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Local residents listen as Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks during a campaign event in Dubuque, Iowa, U.S., January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo

Iowa Caucus 2020: A guide to understanding the results

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

The Seal of the United States of America is seen on the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in the Brooklyn borough in New York April 2, 2015. Two New York City women have been arrested in an alleged conspiracy to build a bomb and wage a "terrorist attack" in the United States, according to a federal criminal complaint made public on Thursday. Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, devised a plot to target police, government or military targets based on their "violent jihadist beliefs," according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

Judicial appointments in Trump’s first three years: Myths and realities

Russell Wheeler

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Demonstrators calling for action on immigration rally in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 3, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

The 2020s can end America’s generational divide in politics

William H. Frey

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

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