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By Costas Panagopoulos and Kendall Bailey

President Trump is a self-proclaimed “very stable genius,” who says he’s “like, really smart,” and he has a history of boasting about his high IQ and...

By Greg St. Martin

The United States federal government shut down this weekend, as Congress couldn’t pass a short-term spending plan. Both Republicans and Democrats dug in their heels and blamed each...

By Greg St. Martin

This story is part of our multi-part series looking at some of the big stories and bright ideas primed to make headlines in 2018.

Politics consumed the national discourse in 2017...

By Molly Callahan

On Tuesday, Alabama voters elected Democrat Doug Jones to the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Jeff Sessions in a move that overturned a generation of Republican victories in the deep...

By Molly Callahan

The U.S. government is going to run out of money on Friday. That is, unless lawmakers pass a stopgap measure that would extend government spending through Dec. 22, giving them two...

By Greg St. Martin

Three former aides to President Donald Trump—including his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort—have been charged as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into...

By Aaron Weinschenk and Costas Panagopoulos

With the release of Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir last week, political observers have turned their attention back to the 2016 presidential race.

And...

By Jeremy M. Teigan If the Democratic Party retakes the House of Representatives in 2018, it may owe its success to military veterans’ candidacies. That, at least, is the perspective emerging from news reporting in recent weeks. This month, a story in the New York Times reported on 20 Democratic military veterans hoping to unseat Republicans in next year’s midterm elections, writing that party leaders believe that “candidates with a military pedigree [are] an appealing contrast to entrenched, career politicians.” This week, the San Antonio Express-News suggested much the same thing.

By R. Michael Alvarez

In a matter of months, federal elections in the United States will enter full-swing. I recently asked Costas Panagopoulos, a professor at Fordham University and an expert on...

By Clem Richardson

Michele Obama tells the Democratic National Convention how the future President used take her on dates in a junker car with its floor rusted out.

A jacketless Milt Romney...