The White House on Friday called out the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) budget proposal for backing legislation that would put strict restrictions on abortion access. The group, which comprises nearly 80 percent of all House Republicans, proposed a budget that endorses the Life at Conception Act, which would implement protections for unborn humans. Democrats argue...
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...
Longtime Democratic Penn. Sen. Bob Casey's office and campaign has not answered repeated inquiries whether he endorses Rep. Summer Lee in light of her rhetoric on Israel.
Senate Republicans frustrated with a lack of procedure and unfettered spending are poised to delay the passage of the second slate of appropriations bills.
President Biden's landmark CHIPS and Science Act is quietly contingent on funding applicants meeting a series of diversity, equity and inclusion requirements.
Washington, D.C.’s Union Station is supposed to be the “gateway to the nation’s capital.” But after eight years and millions of dollars, it has become one of the nation’s greatest symbols of bureaucratic and regulatory dysfunction. Nine years ago, the Federal Railroad Administration began jumping through all the legal hoops necessary to redevelop the capital’s […]
On the day before Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado leaves Congress, he became the first Republican in this entire Congressional session to back a Democratic discharge petition.
If you haven’t read The Three-Body Problem, the 2008 novel by the Chinese science-fiction writer Cixin Liu, you’ve probably seen or heard of others reading it — people on subways, people in airport terminals, or President Barack Obama, whose endorsement contributed to the book’s popularity in the United States. The book, a heady and dense […]