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What to make of Trump’s choice for labor secretary

Laura C. Bucci - February 17, 2025
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer backed pro-labor legislation. So why did Trump nominate her to join his cabinet?

Congress finally passed a federal anti-lynching bill — after 120 years of failure

Justin Peck and Jeffery Jenkins - March 9, 2022
For decades, a small, intensely committed Senate minority was able to use Senate rules to block change and maintain the Jim Crow system in the South

The Canadian truckers’ ‘freedom convoy’ disrupted life and blockaded borders. Did the protest succeed?

David Meyer - February 24, 2022
The trick, for activists, is to get authorities and other audiences to focus on their issues as well as their tactics.

Congress is about to pass a stopgap spending bill. That’ll cost taxpayers.

Stuart Kasdin - September 30, 2021
When federal agencies have to put off spending decisions until the last minute, they are forced to take shortcuts

Mitch McConnell is wrong. Here’s the filibuster’s ‘racial history.’

Sarah Binder - March 24, 2021
From defending slavery to protecting segregation, the filibuster has been heavily used to block civil rights

How Congress is pushing back against Trump’s unprecedented use of emergency powers

Elizabeth Goitein - September 24, 2020
Unless the laws change, future presidents are more likely to exploit emergency powers, now that Trump has ended the tradition of restraint.

The Republican Senate just rebuked Trump using the War Powers Act — for the third time. That’s remarkable.

Sarah Binder - February 14, 2020
Congress hasn’t used it against any other president.

Uber issues its IPO this week. Tomorrow its drivers are threatening a worldwide strike.

Ashley Nunes - May 7, 2019
Who’s for — and who’s against — regulating its relationship with its workers?

Trying to understand how Jeff Flake is leaning? We analyzed his Twitter feed — and were surprised.

Gregory Eady, Jan Zilinsky, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua Tucker - October 5, 2018
How did the president’s deep-red critic, Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.),

No matter what Trump says, Russia is unique in trying to hack other countries’ democracies

Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin Jensen - July 17, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/world/segments/trump-putin-address-election-interference/2018/07/16/baff2fa8-890e-11e8-9d59-dccc2c0cabcf_video.html Not everyone hacks democracy. States don’t “all do it,”
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