As expected, President Trump took to the podium in the Rose Garden to declare a National Emergency...
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There were some wondering if President Trump would sign the newly passed spending bill designed to avert...
Video of President Donald Trump's State of the Union, Stacey Abrams' Democratic response, and the guest list...
For his part King is claiming he was misunderstood, taken out of context, and is being treated...
"Face it, Republicans. Trumpism is a slapdash replicate of P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth. Moreover, like...
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times' end-of-week tradition of bringing you links to stories from around the world and...
Linky Friday is Ordinary Times' end of week tradition of bringing you linked stories from around the...
Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the highest ranking female Republican in Congress. And I thinks she is in...
An attempt to plant goalposts.
In which Burt Likko tries to convince you, and himself, that it's not going to be that...
Looking for suggestions in the decidedly unlikely event of lunch with a member of Congress.
Congress is broken, argues Michael Cain -- who offers some rule-changing fixes.
A brief summary of the "executive summary" of the Senate's report on the CIA detention and interrogation...
In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by...
An open thread on the President's remarks on Syria and where the crisis currently stands.
The full text of the Senate’s joint resolution authorizing the use of military force in Syria is...
Doug Henwood summarizes an important decline in the reading level of State of the Union addresses,
…may very well be in Arizona’s new Ninth Congressional District, which wraps around the eastern side of...
I loathe Ryan, not least of all because I can now no longer sit in front of...
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t...
