U.S. Politics & Government

U.S. Justice Department building in Washington, DC.

WATCH: Brookings experts on the Mueller report, Barr’s letter, and what’s next

Friday, March 29, 2019

U.S. Attorney General William Barr's signature is seen at the end of his four page letter to U.S. congressional leaders on the conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election after the letter was released by the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, U.S. March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Bourg TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1B4EB05810

Forget collusion, the problem is corruption and complacency

Isabel V. Sawhill

Thursday, March 28, 2019

A line worker installs the back seats on the flex line at Nissan Motor Co's automobile manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, U.S., August 23, 2018. Picture taken August 23, 2018. REUTERS/William DeShazer - RC1B6E2ACF40

Automation perpetuates the red-blue divide

Mark Muro, Jacob Whiton, and Robert Maxim

March 19, 2019

The sign for the House Judiciary Committee hearing room is visible at the Rayburn House office building where FBI lawyer Lisa Page failed to show up for a subpoena for a closed House Judiciary Committee deposition related to the ongoing congressional investigation into the Justice Department and FBI's decisions during the 2016 election in Washington, U.S., July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis - RC11B1F228F0

Maintaining the rule of law: How House Democrats are conducting oversight in the 116th Congress

Thursday, March 21, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with members of Congress as he arrives at the 37th annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 14, 2019. REUTERS/Jim Young - RC1C5F28A710

The Senate’s emergency vote showed Trump’s enduring strength

Friday, March 15, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by Houston High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Director Mike McDaniel and Chief of U.S. Border Patrol Carla Provost, holds a briefing on "drug trafficking on the southern border" in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 13, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1453617A40

The Senate vote on the wall brought Trump closer to impeachment

Friday, March 15, 2019

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, with the partial quote "taxes are what we pay," 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. The entire quote chiseled on the building, from Oliver Wendell Holmes, reads, "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society''. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109452

Americans want the wealthy and corporations to pay more taxes, but are elected officials listening?

Isabel V. Sawhill and Christopher Pulliam

Thursday, March 14, 2019

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) leads Democrats in introducing proposed government reform legislation, which they've titled the For the People Act, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S. January 4, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1D8861B9A0

Why Democratic ‘disarray’ is not a disaster

Morley Winograd and Michael Hais

Thursday, March 14, 2019

A general view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington February 28, 2013. Positions hardened on Wednesday between U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders over the budget crisis even as they arranged to hold last-ditch talks to prevent harsh automatic spending cuts beginning this week. Looking resigned to the $85 billion in "sequestration" cuts starting on Friday, government agencies began reducing costs and spelling out to employees how furloughs will work. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E92S1U0N01

More productive, more diverse: What ‘Vital Stats’ tells us about the new Congress

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Jobseekers stand in line to attend the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. career fair held by the New York State department of Labor in New York April 12, 2012. A report on Friday showed the economy created only 120,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October. The unemployment rate fell to a three-year low of 8.2 percent, but largely as people gave up the search for work. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E84D0FT401

What does the latest jobs report mean for 2020?

Monday, March 11, 2019