A.O.C. has the money, fame, and national movement to run in 2028. Her dilemma: Seize the moment now, or take the safer road via Schumer’s seat.

Tim Scott has developed a reputation for running two of the Senate’s most dysfunctional offices—consumed by high turnover, internal rivalries, and a string of costly political missteps. Some Republica...

Jon Ossoff has seemingly reinvented himself as a ready-made 2028 presidential candidate, from his new suits and beefier physique to his studied, Obama-like cadence. Inside the Senate, however, colleag...

After Graham Platner’s flame-out in Maine, Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed is the progressive left’s best—and last—chance to prove they can win a Senate seat in a purple state.

Exclusive focus group data suggests that Americans across the political spectrum have soured on Trump’s second term—with inflation, Iran, and political dysfunction eclipsing the postelection optimism ...

The president has staked everything on passing the SAVE America Act, his divisive voter ID bill. The result: a Republican civil war over whether feeding the base is the best way to win—or the fastest ...

At a private event in Washington last night, Cheryl Hines, Mehmet Oz, and Lee Zeldin all took turns reassuring the crowd that Kennedy isn’t going anywhere. But across the Hill, the succession chatter ...

With his unrepentant populism and problematic past, Graham Platner’s polarizing Senate run has tapped into a wellspring of Democratic anger that could upend the party establishment, if the old guard d...

After the president helped end the careers of two of their own, many in the Senate G.O.P. feel he’s broken their political contract. Now, instead of constantly bowing to the executive branch, they’re ...

Trump has spent his second term largely getting what he wants from Congress as he’s launched wars, imposed tariffs, and accumulated crypto wealth with little scrutiny. But last week, he encountered mo...

After a tense phone call with Majority Leader John Thune, Trump did what many felt he'd wanted to all along.

James Blair and Chris LaCivita are set to embark on an ambitious midterm agenda, working amid a sprawling web of interlinked super PACs, LLCs, and dark money groups that make it difficult to know who’...

An unusual set of primary interventions by the party’s congressional campaign arm has infuriated progressive candidates, who accuse out-of-touch leadership of putting their thumb on the scale. Democra...

Primary voters head to the polls tomorrow in two states affected differently by redistricting.

A Policy Brief on DC’s Electricity Crisis

The Republican civil war isn’t just ideological, it’s institutional, with the House and Senate engaged in an intra-party feud with no obvious exit ramp before the midterms.

Democratic donors are feeling jazzed about the midterms, but still haven’t made peace with leadership over the party’s post-’24 aimlessness. Support for Chuck Schumer, in particular, has become a litm...

Republicans confront the reality that launching the redistricting war might have been a costly mistake. And a new poll shows moderate white women breaking against Trump.

Eric Swalwell’s implosion, as sudden as it was overdue, is less a scandal than a reminder that Washington’s old boys’ club still confuses proximity to power with immunity from consequence.

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For much of the past year, Democratic leaders have mostly kept a lid on threats by far-left members to impeach the president. Now, amid Trump’s unauthorized war in Iran and his increasingly erratic be...

Crypto lobbyists are starting to hedge their bets as they contemplate a post-midterms landscape in which their G.O.P. allies are no longer in charge.

Once it was Ted Cruz. Recently it's been Rand Paul. But Republican senators have a new least-popular member in their ranks.

Speculation is building around who could replace Mike Johnson as House leader if and when Republicans find themselves relegated to the minority. And there are already four names on the theoretical sho...

A combative, law-and-order Trump loyalist with a steep learning curve on policy, Markwayne Mullin has leveraged his relationship with the president to rise from Oklahoma backbencher to Kristi Noem’s l...

On Capitol Hill, Republicans are projecting a united front in support of Trump’s war. But many of them fear rising gas prices in Peoria, not to mention dwindling munitions. And a number of them are tr...

Renewable energy industry types are wondering why Stephen Miller’s wife seems to have developed a sudden interest in their field. Not that they’re complaining.

With Trump allies floating ideas ranging from strict voter ID mandates to declaring a national emergency to seize control of elections, Democrats are preparing for what they fear could be unprecedente...

Everyone in town is talking about the latest oscillations of J.D. Vance, who once praised his boss’s decision to eschew unnecessary foreign conflicts before going all in on Yemen, Venezuela, and now I...

The House Republican crusade to depose Bill and Hillary Clinton over their Epstein ties may well establish a bipartisan playbook for dragging former presidents before Congress—including Donald Trump.

As midterm season kicks into gear, Republicans fret over what Trump plans to do with his war chest, while a set of high-profile primaries prove everything is indeed bigger in Texas.

An Alabama conservative, Trump ally, and Democratic whisperer, Katie Britt has built a career on charming both parties. But triangulation has a short shelf life in Trump’s Washington.