Tag: US House of Representatives
For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House...
Robert A. Strong, University of Virginia
Now that the 2026 midterm elections are less than a year away, public...
Speaker Johnson’s choice to lead by following the president goes against...
SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, University of Virginia
When the framers of what became the U.S. Constitution set out to draft...
Forcible removal of US Sen. Alex Padilla signals a dangerous shift...
Charlie Hunt, Boise State University
Democratic leaders and a lone Republican senator, Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, quickly decried the treatment...
Citizenship voting requirement in SAVE Act has no basis in the...
John J. Martin, University of Virginia
The Republican-led House of Representatives passed on April 10, 2025, the Safeguard American...
US faces $31.4 trillion national debt crisis – and Republican divisions...
Thomas Gift, UCL
US federal debt currently stands at a staggering US$31.4 trillion (£25.2 trillion), the highest it’s ever...
The weaponization of the federal government has a long history
Ken Hughes, University of Virginia
Now that House Republicans have created a “Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal...
Steve Bannon faces criminal charges over Jan. 6 panel snub, setting...
Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is tasked...
Why Trump is more likely to win in the GOP than...
Marjorie Hershey, Indiana University
Former President Donald Trump has claimed at times that he’ll start a third political party...
EXPLORING NATURE
Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX’s Starship could transform astronomy by making space...
Martin Elvis, Smithsonian Institution
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully...
