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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
The 119th Congress has shown little willingness to assert its own constitutional powers, Jason Dick and Molly Reynolds observe in the latest Political Theater podcast.

Let’s get existential

By Jason Dick
Posted September 23, 2025 at 6:01pm
Majority Leader John Thune speaks to reporters after Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Revisiting friendly advice for the House, Senate

By Jason Dick
Posted September 18, 2025 at 1:05pm
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
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
Activists with Shut Down DC hold a protest outside of the EPA headquarters in Washington on Thursday to rename it as the Environmental Pollution Agency.

How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue

By Jessica Wehrman and David Jordan
Posted August 7, 2025 at 3:11pm
Rep. Marc Veasey speaks alongside fellow Texas Democrats during a news conference outside the Capitol on July 23, 2025, to discuss the Lone Star State's redistricting plans.

Off to the redistricting races

By Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari
Posted July 30, 2025 at 12:19pm
President Donald Trump holds up the “GENIUS Act” alongside Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans after signing the bill into law during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on July 18.

Six months into Trump 2.0, GOP exudes ‘extreme confidence’

By Jessica Wehrman and Nathan L. Gonzales
Posted July 22, 2025 at 4:21pm
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