Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears of Virginia could make history next year as the nation's first Black woman to win election ...

Mike Johnson can’t keep his conference together and Trump can’t scare them into submission. Can the GOP be governed?

The federal government shut down three times during Donald Trump's first term as president, including 35-day closure that is ...

From his first book to his landmark account of the politics of the pre-WWI labor movement, Montgomery explored how people’s ...

Past efforts to shrink the federal bureaucracy, including basic things like selling off unused government buildings, have ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an ...

Sen. Mitt Romney predicts that Vice President-elect JD Vance will become the Republican Party's 2028 presidential nominee.

Josh Stein’s victory in this year’s North Carolina governor’s race was huge. And his opponent was widely seen as the weakest ...

The president-elect who is 78 years old is slated to be the oldest president in U.S. history when he's inaugurated next month ...

Basic political geography means Democrats might need to ask themselves a broader question as they look to rebound.

The year 2024 will go down in history books as a sensational one politically. For just the second time in history, America is ...

Post Opinions columnists Karen Tumulty, Colbert I. King, David Ignatius, Ruth Marcus, Catherine Rampell, Leana S. Wen and ...