The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is almost over. The House, back for its first votes since September 19, just passed the Senate’s bipartisan deal to reopen the government. The 222-209 ...

It's Election Day! Voters are having their say in closely watched contests in New York City, California, New Jersey and Virginia. And the government shutdown is about the become the longest ever. Here ...

Wednesday brought the first fallout from Tuesday's elections, in which Democrats swept key races by large margins. President Trump, clearly bothered by the election results, voiced growing frustration ...

Good evening and a happy Veterans Day to those who served. Our thanks go out to you. Tomorrow, on Day 43 of the government shutdown, the House will be back in session to take its first vote since ...

Happy Thursday! Lots of history was made on this date: In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president; in 1956, Dwight Eisenhower won a second term in office; in 1984, Ronald Reagan won 49 states en ...

To compile this Fiscal Health Index, we looked at 116 U.S. cities with populations greater than 200,000, using data from 2015 financial reports issued by the cities themselves. Our scoring system is ...

Hungry for love and it’s feeding time, Alice Cooper wrote in his 1991 classic song, “Feed My Frankenstein.” Academia has created its own Frankenstein with its speech codes, groupthink enforcement, and ...

The Clinton era of the 1990s is remembered as a prosperous time punctuated by a series of scandals. Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were ...

Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, author of a comprehensive new book, Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, says Barack Obama was an amazing law student. During a broad ...

I have no idea whether or not Mitt Romney will run for president, and if he does, if he will get the nomination. But many of the issues he ran on when he was a candidate in the last election are ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...

This week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons. Saturday ...