Question: Why doesn’t Congress act more as a check on the President? Answer: Political science has spent a fair amount of ...

Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, reported that the F.B.I. warned him of “credible death threats” while he ...

For decades, Sally Quinn has brought people together in Washington. But under Trump, the free flow of ideas has been replaced ...

New York Times veteran writer Sally Quinn, who has been working with the paper since 1969, says the atmosphere in DC is more ...

Tillis's willingness to take the blame for blocking one of the president's nominees threatens to sour his standing in Trumpworld as he runs for reelection.

Republican politicians face threats of violence if they oppose [President Donald Trump],” but a New York Times guest essay, ...

How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be. Most ...

Interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin’s nomination to serve as DC’s top prosecutor is in serious ...

MAGA’s online power brokers unloaded on Republican Senator Thom Tillis Wednesday after he said he would not vote to confirm ...

The combination of those two orders sent the clearest possible message. His friends and personal allies would enjoy protection, favors and perhaps even immunity from the law. His critics and foes, on ...

Of course, all bad senators aren’t senile. Some are just stupid. But sadly, even the stupid ones are necessary because we ...

The same day that National Security Advisor Mike Waltz exited his job at the White House, President Donald Trump announced a ...