he was the first senator in American history to cross partisan lines to vote to convict a president. Congress is now less an independent branch of government and much more a collection of partisan ...

As the budget process on Capitol Hill moves forward, with its heated debates over steep cuts to Medicaid, raising the debt ...

Congress in the coming weeks will consider shoring up voting and election laws — efforts that will reflect the vast gulf between Democrats and Republicans on protecting a foundation of American ...

Congress wielded procedures and rules to attack their opponents. Rather than running away from Tea Party and MAGA activists, the GOP worked with them to build a formidable partisan infrastructure ...

American politics isn’t just polarized ... Power is centralized in Congress to avert unpredictable cross-partisan coalitions and more effectively stage-manage a partisan Kabuki theater.

ATLANTA — Congress in the coming weeks will consider ... between Democrats and Republicans on protecting a foundation of American democracy. The parties will unveil separate and competing ...