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President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his 1954 State of Union Address to a joint session of Congress in 1954, the year he signed legislation setting the top tax rate at 91 percent. (CQ Roll Call file photo)

Make taxes great again?

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted April 15, 2026 at 5:15pm
In this handout photo provided by NASA, NASA's Orion spacecraft with Artemis II crewmembers NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; Victor Glover, pilot; Christina Koch, mission specialist; and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist aboard, is seen as it lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, Friday, April 10, 2026. The 10-day journey took astronauts around the Moon and back to Earth.

Artemis II: Back to the Future

By David Winston
Posted April 14, 2026 at 1:38pm
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche conducts a news conference at the Department of Justice about the Trump Administration’s anti-fraud efforts on Tuesday, April 7, 2026.

In Trump’s Department of Justice, weaponization without accountability

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted April 14, 2026 at 6:00am
Hope Goins, Democratic staff director for the House Homeland Security Committee, is seen outside the Capitol on March 20.

This top committee staffer also wrote a children’s book

By Bradford Fitch
Posted March 24, 2026 at 12:00pm
President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson are seen in the Capitol after Tuesday’s Friends of Ireland luncheon. As past presidents have learned, dealing with either inflation (Biden) or jobs (Obama) is tough enough, but dealing with both is exponentially harder, Winston writes.

Connecting the dots on the economy

By David Winston
Posted March 17, 2026 at 5:44pm
As the Supreme Court seems primed to obliterate what remains of the Voting Rights Act, longtime Rep. James E. Clyburn has a message worth hearing, Curtis writes. Above, Clyburn addresses the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August 2024.

Are Americans seeking justice tough enough to meet the moment?

By Mary C. Curtis
Posted March 10, 2026 at 2:09pm
Iranian Americans rally in Upper Senate Park to support the provisional government for Iran’s transition period led by Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), on Saturday. Columnist Steven Pearlstein writes that Congress last week ceded its authority to the president on military operations in Iran.

Congress’ unconditional surrender

By Steven Pearlstein
Posted March 9, 2026 at 12:15pm
A plume of smoke rises after a strike on the Iranian capital of Tehran on March 3. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on Feb. 28, killing Iran's supreme leader, and the Islamic Republic retaliated with barrages of missiles toward Gulf states and Israel.

Trump’s big bet on Operation Epic Fury

By David Winston
Posted March 4, 2026 at 4:32pm, Updated March 5, 2026 at 8:41pm
President Donald Trump greets members before delivering his State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 24. Trump's interactions with the public at large are rare, Brandon Wetherbee writes.

Life in this White House bubble

By Brandon Wetherbee
Posted March 3, 2026 at 1:08pm
President Donald Trump applauds during Tuesday night’s State of the Union. The speech kicked off his economic message ahead of the midterms, Winston writes.

Trump’s economic progress report to the country — and what’s next

By David Winston
Posted February 25, 2026 at 7:31pm