Writers also comment on graduation requirements, cellphones in classrooms and Democrats "clutching at pearls" post-election.

That Donald Trump failed to achieve central goals in the government shutdown fight alongside Elon Musk seemed unimportant to ...

Democrats and some conservatives opposed the new funding bill, which was crafted after President-elect Donald Trump blew up ...

Mike Johnson can’t keep his conference together and Trump can’t scare them into submission. Can the GOP be governed?

Whatever the outcome, this stalemate reminds Democrats that it will be difficult for Republicans to legislate with a ...

Political analysts addressed questions about Trump's control over Republicans amid a looming government shutdown threat.

Plan to avert a government shutdown backed by Trump failed with 38 Republicans opposing the bill. Does it mean his ...

Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election ...

The House rejected a new Republican proposal to avert a shutdown, a day after President-elect Donald J. Trump torpedoed a ...

The furor over avoiding a government shutdown has fueled Republican calls to oust Mike Johnson from the speakership and ...

McConnell warned that Republicans could “pay a political price” if they don’t pass legislation keeping the government open by ...

Clarke T. Reed, whose work cemented the “Southern Strategy,” pushed Republican politics farther to the right, where it has ...