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Outgoing National Press Club President Mike Balsamo of the Associated Press toasts newly inaugurated NPC President Mark Schoeff Jr. of CQ Roll Call on Feb. 6.

Spotlight on the National Press Club, and its new president

By Jason Dick and Mark Schoeff Jr.
Posted February 13, 2026 at 9:57am
Marissa Lang, an enterprise reporter who was laid off by The Washington Post, hugs a supporter during the Save the Post rally outside the newspaper’s offices on Thursday after about 300 newsroom employees were fired the day before.

The Washington Press Club Foundation dinner debrief

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 6, 2026 at 11:54am
In his role as vice chair of the 9/11 Commission, former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton was an advocate for streamlining oversight of national security.

Lee Hamilton, Indiana Democrat and vice chair of 9/11 Commission, dies at 94

By Jason Dick
Posted February 4, 2026 at 1:02pm
Senators returned to Washington after a massive winter storm, with just a few days to avert a partial government shutdown. Time is not on their side, nor is a solution for addressing concerns about Homeland Security operations.

Forecast shows chance of snow, shutdown

By Jason Dick, Savannah Behrmann and Valerie Yurk
Posted January 29, 2026 at 12:22pm
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive for the inauguration of Donald Trump for his second term as president inside the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025.

Contempt for the Clintons?

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted January 22, 2026 at 7:13pm
The decision by Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola, pictured here shortly after being sworn in to her first full term as a member of the House in February 2023, puts into play a Senate seat in a state where Democrats aren’t typically competitive.

‘All the pieces matter’ in politics — just not equally

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted January 16, 2026 at 12:14pm
President Donald Trump's approval rating is underwater, as are people's satisfaction with the direction of the country, according to polling averages per the last year. The Political Theater podcast explores which numbers are key to understanding the emerging 2026 campaign's dynamics.

The good, the bad and the meh: What 2026 economic and polling numbers we follow

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 8, 2026 at 12:20pm
The movies can be political, even when the topic isn’t politics.

Political Theater’s conversations with filmmakers and other people who dig movies

By Jason Dick
Posted December 29, 2025 at 9:35am
Caution tape is seen on the East Front lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 18. In 2025, Congress faced questions about its role in government as the executive and judicial branches tugged at its responsibilities.

A most consequential year for Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted December 18, 2025 at 1:59pm, Updated December 19, 2025 at 9:19am
Protesters march down Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the second "No Kings" protest in Washington on Oct. 18, 2025. The current political instability has some parallels to the 1930s portrayed in Thomas Pynchon's novel "Shadow Ticket."

Buy the ‘Shadow Ticket,’ take the ride

By Jason Dick
Posted December 10, 2025 at 1:26pm
Architect Frank Gehry and Rocco Siciliano, chairman of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission, talk with reporters during a press conference about the memorial for President Eisenhower in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 25, 2010.

Frank Gehry’s Washington legacy: The Eisenhower Memorial

By Jason Dick
Posted December 8, 2025 at 5:05pm
Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, here heading to a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday, is among several lawmakers who have sought bipartisan solutions for problems Congress is facing.

Can Congress save itself?

By Jason Dick and Justin Papp
Posted December 4, 2025 at 1:53pm
The Capitol dome is illuminated as the House of Representatives returned to Washington to vote to reopen the government Nov. 12. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

The re-re-redistricting chronicles

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted November 20, 2025 at 6:30pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., lead narrow majorities in their respective chambers as the 2026 midterm elections loom.

There is no such things as an off-year in politics

By Jason Dick, Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted November 6, 2025 at 1:25pm
Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary, conducts a press briefing on March 17, 2025. A hard-line approach to immigration is defining President Donald Trump's second term. And, immigration as an issue is one of the biggest drivers of the new film "One Battle After Another."

Immigration, race and ‘One Battle After Another’

By Jason Dick and Chris Johnson
Posted October 21, 2025 at 5:07pm
A copy of George Orwell's novel “1984” sits on a shelf at a bookstore in Los Angeles in 2017.

How director Raoul Peck found a ‘new Orwell’

By Jason Dick
Posted October 8, 2025 at 3:56pm
Filmmaker Raoul Peck joins Roll Call Editor-in-Chief Jason Dick during a discussion for the Political Theater podcast in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025.

An Orwell movie for Orwellian times

By Jason Dick
Posted October 7, 2025 at 3:51pm
The blinds at the ticket window for the ferry to Fort Sumter are closed in Charleston, S.C., on Oct. 2, 2025 due to the government shutdown.

The great ‘meh’: Scenes from a shutdown

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted October 3, 2025 at 11:18am
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, seen here in 2017 talking to a group of students at the Capitol, is among the former members of Congress to be profiled in Roll Call's Life After Congress feature.

They seem fine: Life after Congress

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted September 10, 2025 at 1:07pm
Former Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., was the latest member of Congress to bid adieu and leave before his term was over.

Editor’s Note: The 119th Congress in numbers, post-Labor Day edition

By Jason Dick
Posted September 8, 2025 at 3:44pm
Rep. Thomas Massie has a discharge petition and he’s not afraid to use it.

Discharge petition: Congressional procedure or great band name?

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 3, 2025 at 6:02pm
Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith speaks to media outlets about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act during the House GOP’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act Media Row event in the U.S. Capitol basement on July 15. House Republicans are making a push to sell the bill to the American public.

Rush job: Life in Congress

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted July 16, 2025 at 3:53pm
Chris Cillizza, left, joins the Political Theater podcast this week.

‘We had time back then’

By Jason Dick
Posted July 8, 2025 at 5:31pm
Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez, left, and general manager Mike Rizzo, pose with World War II veteran Sidney Walton, 100, on 15th Street NW, during a parade to celebrate the World Series champions on Nov. 2, 2019.

That championship Nats season

By Jason Dick
Posted July 7, 2025 at 3:14pm
Hunter S Thompson at his ranch, sitting in his kitchen, which he also used as an office on Oct. 12, 1990 in Woody Creek, Aspen, Colo. Playwright Joe Iconis visited the late journalist's home while working on "The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical."

The ‘rock and roll poetry’ of Joe Iconis’ Hunter S. Thompson musical

By Jason Dick
Posted July 3, 2025 at 9:09am
U.S. Capitol Police arrest protesting members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The protesters chanted “no cuts to Medicaid” while being arrested.

A short history of hoping people will change their minds

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted June 25, 2025 at 4:16pm
The original "ROLL CALL" sign at the first office.

Roll Call goes platinum

By Jason Dick
Posted June 18, 2025 at 5:30am
Hunter S. Thompson is pictured at the Democratic National Convention in New York City on July 15, 1976.

Fear and Loathing at Signature Theatre: The Hunter S. Thompson musical

By Jason Dick
Posted June 11, 2025 at 12:23pm
An activist with Save Our Care brings tombstone cutouts to the office of Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst to highlight her comments at a recent town hall on the Republican budget proposal.

It’s déjà tea party all over again

By Jason Dick and Jim Saksa
Posted June 10, 2025 at 3:28pm
The closing of E Street Cinema in Washington, D.C., a hub of documentary and art-house movies, is among the challenges facing the genre and its champions.

The ‘predicament and necessity’ of documentary movies

By Jason Dick
Posted June 4, 2025 at 11:53am
Former Roll Callers Christina Bellantoni and Neda Semnani have been leading their students on a tour of Washington during a time when Congress has been debating significant changes to tax and entitlement laws, such as at the House Rules Committee, shown here last week.

Taking the grand tour of Washington

By Jason Dick, Christina Bellantoni and Neda Toloui-Semnani
Posted May 27, 2025 at 6:16pm
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Elena Kagan greet President Donald Trump after his address to Congress on March 4. The court has found itself in an increasingly prominent space in a series of cases concerning Trump's administration.

That’s a lot of Supreme Court there

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:21pm
Runners make their way to the starting line of the ACLI Capital Challenge 3-mile race in Anacostia Park on Wednesday.

A run in the (Anacostia) park

By Jason Dick
Posted May 14, 2025 at 3:27pm
Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., seen here last month in Washington, is one of the members of Congress who is not considered vulnerable in the 2026 election cycle, but could find himself in a tough race depending on circumstances.

Call it the Most Not Invulnerable List

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted May 13, 2025 at 5:13pm
Carla Hayden speaks during a hearing for her confirmation to be librarian of Congress before the Senate Rules and Administration Committee on April 20, 2016.

Fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden in her own words

By Jason Dick
Posted May 9, 2025 at 12:21pm
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., seen here at the 2022 Congressional Baseball Game, is a prodigious fundraiser and dodged a strong opponent when Gov. Brian Kemp said he would not run for Senate against him, but he still tops Roll Call's Most Vulnerable senator list.

Still vulnerable, even while batting .400

By Jason Dick, Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted May 8, 2025 at 11:33am
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump listen to Master Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Bennear of the U.S. Marine Band sing the national anthem during the White House Easter Egg Roll on April 21.

Six degrees of 100 days

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted April 30, 2025 at 8:20pm
A man waits to initiate the balloon drop as then-former President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech during the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 18, 2024.

In politics, like in life, nothing lasts forever

By Jason Dick
Posted April 18, 2025 at 12:19pm
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, seen here at last year's Democratic National Convention in Chicago, is helping set the tone for his state's approach to President Donald Trump's second term.

Golden State meets ‘Golden Age’

By Jason Dick and Christina Bellantoni
Posted April 11, 2025 at 8:39am

Much ado about special elections

By Jason Dick, Mary Ellen McIntire and Andrew Menezes
Posted April 3, 2025 at 10:51am
Negative views of Congress has not kept tourists away from the Capitol, like these seen visiting on Monday.

Economic worries continue as Washington mulls tariffs, budget

By Jason Dick
Posted March 31, 2025 at 4:58pm
A Maracas Ice Pop is prepared during the Washington Nationals media preview day at Nationals Park on Friday, March 21, 2025.

The Thai popcorn does not detract

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted March 27, 2025 at 10:26am
Both chambers are in recess for the first time in the 119th Congress.

Editor’s Note: The 119th Congress in numbers, mid-March edition

By Jason Dick
Posted March 21, 2025 at 3:31pm
Materials from this year’s Gridiron dinner, a tradition that dates to 1885.

At the Gridiron, laughter in the dark

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted March 19, 2025 at 6:36pm
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference with caucus leadership during the House Democrats' 2025 Issues Conference at the Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., on Wednesday.

Democrats at (in?) retreat

By Jason Dick and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted March 12, 2025 at 9:14pm
Rep. Melanie Stansbury holds a sign reading “This is not normal” as President Donald Trump enters the House chamber on Tuesday night to deliver his address to a joint session of Congress.

Protest, retreat, hide? Congressional behavior, 2025-style

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted March 6, 2025 at 4:05pm
Josh Hawley is among the Senate Republicans who are unenthusiastic about the House’s proposed cuts to Medicaid.

‘Yeah, I don’t love that,’ or how the House learned to start jamming the Senate

By Jason Dick and David Lerman
Posted February 27, 2025 at 4:19pm
The U.S. Capitol dome is lit as the Senate voted late into the night and early morning last week on a budget resolution.

Polls: No really; it’s still the economy, stupid

By Jason Dick
Posted February 26, 2025 at 2:32pm
Among the small number of Democrats who have shown they can navigate the current political environment, according to Brandon Wetherbee, is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

‘If I can get you to feel’ — politics, wrestling and connecting with people

By Jason Dick and Brandon Wetherbee
Posted February 19, 2025 at 5:22pm
Political Theater podcast host Jason Dick and “Porcelain War” co-director Slava Leontyev in the Roll Call newsroom.

‘Beauty never gets old’ — Slava Leontyev in the ‘Porcelain War’

By Jason Dick
Posted February 11, 2025 at 2:47pm
Senate Majority Leader John Thune has largely stuck to his plan to consistently confirm executive nominees and has plans to take the lead on the budget process if the House cannot forge a path.

Having a plan beats not having a plan

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted February 6, 2025 at 3:14pm
A helicopter flies near the crash site of the American Airlines plane on the Potomac River after the plane crashed on approach to Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening.

Instability as norm. Or test

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 30, 2025 at 4:59pm
Security barricades the House chamber as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6, 2021. Reps. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, blue shirt, and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., right, are also pictured. President Donald Trump issued pardons to all those involved in the attack.

Pardon me? Tales of presidential pardons

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted January 22, 2025 at 2:57pm
Barack Obama was the most recent president before Donald Trump to deliver a second inaugural address.

Echoes among 17 presidents’ second inaugural addresses

By Jason Dick
Posted January 20, 2025 at 12:54pm
Two appointed senators, Roger Wicker, R-Miss., left, and Roland Burris, D-Ill., walk through Statuary Hall before President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Feb. 24, 2009. Burris did not seek election following his appointment. Wicker won election and has continued to climb the ranks in the chamber.

Appointed senators: The winners, seat-warmers, losers and weirdos

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted January 15, 2025 at 8:29pm
Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski is the most senior senator to first enter the chamber as an appointee.

Some stick around: Appointed senators and their fates

By Jason Dick
Posted January 15, 2025 at 5:37pm
From left, Sen. Patty Murray and Reps. Xavier Becerra and James E. Clyburn address the media outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting in November 2011.

‘It’s incredibly hard’ — consider the super committee

By Jason Dick
Posted January 9, 2025 at 6:00am
Sen. Max Baucus is questioned by reporters outside the Senate Foreign Relations room in the Capitol, where members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also know as the “super committee,” were holding a meeting on Nov. 17, 2011.

So you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget

By Jason Dick, Peter Cohn and David Lerman
Posted January 8, 2025 at 4:11pm
Sunrise light hits the Capitol Dome on Thursday as the 119th Congress is set to begin Friday. Republicans will control both chambers and the White House for the first time in eight years.

Editor’s Note: Honeymoon in Washington

By Jason Dick
Posted January 3, 2025 at 6:30am
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has a thin margin of error now and in the coming 119th Congress.

The top political stories, of next year

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted December 19, 2024 at 10:58am
Andy Kim, D-N.J., takes in John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” painting in the Capitol Rotunda before being sworn in to the Senate on Monday.

Revenge of the Senate

By Jason Dick
Posted December 11, 2024 at 6:57pm
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, center, has scheduled 31 five-day work weeks in 2025, which was music to the ears of Rep. William R. Timmons IV.

Help wanted: Spending more time and effort in Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted December 9, 2024 at 4:42pm
One of the first votes the newly elected freshman members of Congress will take after being sworn in is on a rules package for the House chamber. Some very simple proposals that could be written into the rules could make the chamber function better, Molly Reynolds of The Brookings Institution argues.

Home improvements for the House

By Jason Dick
Posted December 4, 2024 at 2:58pm
Few senators have shaped the judicial confirmation process as much as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

A very judgy lame duck

By Jason Dick and Todd Ruger
Posted November 21, 2024 at 12:36pm
Ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, and Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill., arrive for a Senate Judiciary Committee markup on Thursday. Prior to the markup, they spoke to reporters about the nomination of former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be attorney general.

Who are these guys? The Congress-Cabinet-West Wing revue

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted November 14, 2024 at 6:19pm
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and her husband Paul, greet guests before Vice President Kamala Harris addressed the crowd at Howard University after conceding the presidential race to Donald Trump on Wednesday.

5 big questions with Nathan L. Gonzales

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted November 7, 2024 at 2:26pm
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, seen here at a campaign rally at the Communications Workers of America Local 4370 in Brooklyn Heights, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 2024. Brown is among the most vulnerable senators running for reelection.

The last Most Vulnerable Incumbents lists of the 2024 cycle

By Jason Dick, Daniela Altimari and Mary Ellen McIntire
Posted October 31, 2024 at 11:51am
Actor Jeremy Strong poses for a photo as he arrives for the gala premiere of the movie "The Apprentice" at the Imperial in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Oct. 16. Strong portrays Roy Cohn, the former president's one-time lawyer.

But is it art? Unpacking ‘The Apprentice’

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted October 24, 2024 at 5:40am
Former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock plays a president facing an insurrection in “War Game,” which documents a tense, unscripted tabletop exercise held last year.

In swing states and beyond, ‘War Game’ sounds a warning

By Jason Dick
Posted October 22, 2024 at 6:30am
Independent Senate candidate Dan Osborn speaks during his campaign stop at Sly’s Family Bar and Grill in Neligh, Neb., on Monday. Osborn is running against Republican Sen. Deb Fischer, and the two parties differ on the status of the race.

Let’s get (electorally) unstable!

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted October 18, 2024 at 12:55pm
The Jan. 6, 2021, attempted insurrection helped inspire the simulation role-playing exercise that is the subject of the documentary “War Game.”

‘War Game’: Rehearsing the uncomfortably plausible

By Jason Dick
Posted October 9, 2024 at 10:24am
The Supreme Court's new term starts on Monday, Oct. 7.

A ‘sleepy’ Supreme Court term? Yeah, right

By Jason Dick, Todd Ruger and Michael Macagnone
Posted October 2, 2024 at 5:56pm
Vice President and Democratic nominee for President Kamala Harris speaks at an event hosted by The Economic Club of Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday in Pittsburgh, Pa. President Joe Biden was in New York at the UN General Assembly and former President Donald Trump was on the campaign trail in Charlotte, N.C.

Tales of the three-headed incumbent: Biden/Harris/Trump

By Jason Dick and John T. Bennett
Posted September 26, 2024 at 11:33am
From left, former Rep. Earl Pomeroy points as Ben Rich, chief of staff for the late Rep. Bill Pascrell’s office, hands over the Pease Cactus to Rep. Jimmy Panetta in Panetta’s office in the Cannon House Office Building on Sept. 18. House Ways and Means Committee members whose first or last names start with “P” have passed along guardianship of the cactus for more than 30 years.

‘The cactus endures’ — a Ways and Means tradition’s moment in the sun

By Jason Dick
Posted September 24, 2024 at 6:15am

One last journey down Roll Call’s Jersey Turnpike

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted September 19, 2024 at 12:02pm
The Maryland Senate primary that Angela Alsobrooks, now the Democratic nominee, won against Rep. David Trone was among the most instructive for Roll Call Elections Analyst Nathan L. Gonzales. Gov. Wes Moore is pictured at right.

The surprises, lessons and exhaustion of the congressional primaries

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted September 12, 2024 at 10:28am
Protesters hold signs outside the Supreme Court on June 24 to mark the second anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. In a new book, journalist Amanda Becker chronicles the upheaval and activism that followed the decision.

In ‘You Must Stand Up,’ Amanda Becker captures the scramble after Dobbs

By Jason Dick
Posted September 9, 2024 at 1:38pm
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, D-Mass., speaks during a rally to mark the two-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade on June 27, 2024.

When political realignment happens before your eyes; Amanda Becker discusses ‘You Must Stand Up’

By Jason Dick and Amanda Becker
Posted September 5, 2024 at 11:01am
Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle will perform at the Congressional Record 2024 on Sept. 17 at the Capitol Visitor Center.

Members of Congress get ready to kick out the jams

By Jason Dick
Posted August 30, 2024 at 8:51am
From left, Reps. Sean Casten, D-Ill., Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky., and Dan Kildee, D-Mich., are seen on the first night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Aug. 19. McGarvey is among the members scheduled to perform at the Congressional Record 2024 music event on Sept. 17.

The happy-to-be-there caucus

By Jason Dick
Posted August 30, 2024 at 5:00am
John Legend, joined by Sheila E., perform Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” during day three of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sweet (temporary) home Chicago

By Jason Dick, Aidan Quigley and Daniela Altimari
Posted August 22, 2024 at 9:50am
From left, Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan and Sen. Al Franken; Minnesota natives Ryan Jensen of Peregrine Espresso and Dorothy Sietsema; Democratic Rep. Tim Walz, who won with his “Tim's Turkey Taco Tot Hotdish”; and Sietsema's son, Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema, attend the sixth annual Minnesota congressional delegation’s hotdish competition in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 11, 2016. Jensen and the Sietsemas acted as judges.

‘Turkey Taco Tot Tim’? Hot takes on hotdish

By Jason Dick
Posted August 20, 2024 at 2:07pm
President Joe Biden, center, and Vice President Kamala Harris, second from left, appear with their families after Biden addressed the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Monday.

Democrats cram opening night with tributes, contrasts with Trump

By Jason Dick and Niels Lesniewski
Posted August 20, 2024 at 5:28am
Banners and bunting decorate the outside of the InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile hotel as Chicago gears up for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday.

DNC-adjacent: Stories in the convention’s orbit

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted August 15, 2024 at 12:11pm
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is pictured with his running mate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, right, in the Fiserv Forum on the second day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16.

Ohio, the [political] heart of it all

By Jason Dick and Jessica Wehrman
Posted August 1, 2024 at 1:08pm
Sens. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo., left, and George McGovern, D-S.D., the Democratic nominees for vice president and president, respectively, at the Democratic National Convention in 1972. Eagleton dropped off the ticket less than three weeks later after revealing he had been treated for depression.

Yes things feel crazy, but elections are frequently chaotic, from LBJ to RBG and more

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 26, 2024 at 11:06am
Roll Call columnist Walter Shapiro dons headphones before recording a podcast with editor Jason Dick on Nov. 15, 2017.

Appreciation: Walter Shapiro, a pro’s pro who learned politics and journalism the hard way

By Jason Dick
Posted July 21, 2024 at 1:51pm
Former President Donald Trump and his Republican Party are riding high at their national nominating convention, confident of their prospects for winning in November.

‘Happy Days’ for Republicans in Milwaukee

By Jason Dick, John T. Bennett and Briana Reilly
Posted July 18, 2024 at 10:25am
Former President Donald Trump arrives at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee for his first appearance at the Republican National Convention on Monday.

Trump and Biden, watching their language

By Jason Dick
Posted July 16, 2024 at 2:39pm
President Joe Biden arrives at the Oval Office of the White House on January 23, 2023.

Just the facts, just the facts, with Factba.se

By Jason Dick
Posted July 11, 2024 at 2:37pm
The Interstate 5 and Interstate 605 interchange is seen on descent to Los Angeles International Airport.

Nathan L. Gonzales just can’t wait to get on the road again

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted June 27, 2024 at 10:01pm
Signage for Thursday's presidential debate is seen as workers set up security fencing outside CNN's studios at the Turner Entertainment Networks in Atlanta.

Debatus interruptus, tracking the Biden-Trump debates

By Jason Dick
Posted June 27, 2024 at 5:11pm
Abortion rights and anti-abortion protesters rally in front of the Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, before justices overturned Roe v. Wade.

Two years in the post-Dobbs world

By Jason Dick and Amanda Becker
Posted June 21, 2024 at 1:14pm
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, slides in safe to home plate as catcher Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., appeals to the umpire during the Congressional Baseball Game on Wednesday.

Editor’s Note: Mixing baseball and contempt

By Jason Dick
Posted June 14, 2024 at 2:11pm
Being former President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Iceland wasn’t enough for Jeff Gunter to earn Trump's endorsement, as he went on to lose the GOP Senate primary in Nevada.

When being ambassador to Iceland isn’t enough

By Jason Dick and Herb Jackson
Posted June 13, 2024 at 1:08pm
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and attorney Ben Crump, left, leave a news conference at the Capitol on Wednesday after meeting with congressional leaders about increasing minority representation in the multibillion-dollar luxury spirits industry.

Editor’s Note: Running the numbers in Congress

By Jason Dick
Posted June 7, 2024 at 5:06pm
The DC/DOX film festival gets underway on June 13. The festival highlights documentaries from across the spectrum and examines a vast swath of culture.

Gathering in dark rooms: Sky Sitney on DC/DOX

By Jason Dick
Posted June 4, 2024 at 2:29pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer conducts a news conference after the Senate luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Strange things are afoot at the Capitol

By Jason Dick
Posted May 24, 2024 at 4:10pm
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., plays catch with a reporter while being interviewed outside the Capitol on Thursday. Summer is almost here, and the news cycle is going to heat up.

Summertime, and the political news is busy

By Jason Dick
Posted May 24, 2024 at 11:19am
Angela Alsobrooks, second from right, Democratic Senate candidate from Maryland, and Gov. Wes Moore, D-Md., left, pose for picture with voters on the state’s primary election day at Lewisdale Elementary School in Chillum, Md., on Tuesday.

Primary colors: Breaking down the latest congressional contests

By Jason Dick and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted May 15, 2024 at 10:04pm