California is in the middle of implementing a plan that will create a free, universal pre-K program (known as transitional kindergarten) for every 4-year-old in the state by the 2025-2026 school year. It sounds like a big, blue state priority, but it’s also a ... More »
This week was all about the 118th Congress getting its committees organized, removing Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., from her Foreign Affairs seat, denouncing socialism and the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol. The post Photos of the week ending February 3,... More »
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. In one of America’s most enduring myths, President George Washington damaged his father’s cherry tree with a hatchet when he was a small child. When his father confronted him, Washington admitted to what he ... More »
You may have heard that U.S. emissions per capita are the highest in the world, in part because the United States is by far the world’s largest economy. But a new report highlights that wealth inequality within countries is as important as inequality between c... More »
In the country’s hottest hotbed of election denialism, the debate over voting goes on. And on. More »
Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. At their most basic level, campaign finance reports are a simple tabulation of money... More »
Like many other millennials, Santos sees attention as the most valuable currency. And now the scandal-plagued congressman is getting plenty of it. More »
Let’s get this out of the way up front: There was a wide gap between the perception of how well polls and data-driven forecasts did in 2022 and the reality of how they did … and the reality is that they did pretty well. While some polling firms badly missed th... More »
“I am not a candidate. I will not become a candidate. I will support the nominee of my party with all the energy I have.” With this, former President Gerald Ford announced in March 1980 that he would not make a late entrance into the Republican presidential no... More »
There’s Trump, DeSantis and a few other would-be hopefuls in case they falter. But an entire generation of Republican stars seem determined to sit this one out. More »
In the first few years after former President Donald Trump assumed office, he essentially became a one-man litmus test for the Republican Party. Conservatives’ bona fides hinged less on their voting records, and more on their fealty to him. Then something we... More »
When Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., meets President Joe Biden on Wednesday to discuss the debt limit, there are some structural advantages in favor of emerging from the fight this summer without tanking financial markets that didn’t exist in 2011, a similar... More »