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The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. More than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire.
The founders’ vision of the speaker of the House – a nonpartisan moderator and referee – has yielded to a far more powerful position. But has Speaker Mike Johnson given away his chamber’s power?
House speakers have had the power to determine when the oath is administered, and courts have been reluctant to weigh in on that influence.
A decade ago, people did not even agree on the traits that defined women politicians. Now they see women seeking political office as intelligent, rational, analytical, ambitious and moral.
A war of words has broken out between Australian and US political veterans over whether the status of Taiwan is a key Western security interest.
Kamala Harris is the heir to a political lineage that dates back to a chain-smoking, hard-drinking and profane political mastermind first elected to Congress from San Francisco in 1964.
The incumbent vice president has a number of significant advantages over rival Democrats.
Joe Biden’s refusal to grapple with his looming mortality brings the world dangerously close to another Republican presidency rife with Donald Trump’s many denials and resentments.
Relations between the U.S. and China have been particularly tense for the last few years. Can one summit between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping significantly improve relations?
Many years beyond the average American retirement age, politicians vie for power and influence. Their constituents tend to prefer they step back and pass the torch to younger people.
In the wake of the three-week internal GOP battle to choose a speaker, a scholar of Congress says that what looks like dysfunction is actually something else.
The House of Representatives is breaking norms and establishing a new way for the body to do business.
The status quo in terms of Canada’s protection of public officials is untenable and poses a serious risk to the country’s national security.
For decades, there were growing numbers of Democratic and Republican women in Congress, but the number of Republican women has stalled.
The hard-right of the Republican Party is exerting pressures on candidates to be the next speaker of the House.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced she will step aside from senior leadership. It could lead to generational change in the Democratic Party.
The rise in contemporary right-wing political extremism – and violence – can be traced back to events in the 1990s.
Welcome to an era of two parallel worlds in global business.
Visits by foreign law-makers to Taiwan are nothing new. So why did China react in such a heavy-handed manner to Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit?
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