GOP figures like Glenn Youngkin and Ron DeSantis believe “parents’ rights” rhetoric has made education a winning issue—but its potency may not last forever.

Democrats in Congress are warning the Biden administration that access to some birth-control products is still beyond the reach of many Americans.

They call themselves the Five Families. Here’s a guide to how each family may (or may not) foul up negotiations on the debt limit.

The TikTok hearing in Congress revealed more about U.S. data privacy laws than anything else.

As lawmakers in Washington ponder banning the app, they could be courting a substantial backlash from a key voting bloc—and one party could suffer the brunt of it.

Many of those who assisted the military during its 20-year war remain trapped in Afghanistan—with only a backlogged special immigration visa program as a recourse.

Of course Republicans are in the banks’ pockets. But so are many Democrats. And what’s up with Barney Frank?

The president’s spending plan will never pass, but that’s not the point.

As the Covid-era SNAP emergency allotment program ends this month, providers are already seeing increased need.

Republicans and Democrats are uniting to prove James Madison wrong that the District’s inhabitants “will have had their voice in the election of the government which is to exercise authority over them.”

Hint: It’s not because of rip-offs or abuses. Those, they’re fine with.

Default could permanently threaten our status as the provider of the primary global reserve currency—along with the substantial economic benefits that come from this position of privilege.

Lawmakers are poised to rescind the blank-check authorizations to use military force that the executive branch was handed decades ago.

Democratic lawmakers have a golden opportunity to distinguish themselves from Kevin McCarthy’s army of weirdos.

The tribe has renewed its push to get a delegate in the House of Representatives, and the law is on its side.

The discharge petition has been floated as a Hail Mary to avoid default, but the current political conditions do not augur success.

A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.

On the Homeland Security Committee, she’ll have access to highly sensitive information about domestic right-wing terrorism. Comforting?

GOP lawmakers in the House take up fentanyl, drug addiction, and the border as their new causes célèbres.

From a draconian new proposal in Iowa to farm bill deliberations in Washington, the ideological battles over food aid will soon kick off—and no one knows who will end up paying the price.