A.D. Quig 
You’ll have to decide on your own whether 2014 was a good year or not. We’re assuming that if you’re a Republican, you’re probably leaning yes, and if you’re a Democrat, you’re trending no. But no matter how you rate it, it was a remarkable year — both here at home and overseas. And thus, …
It’s the time of year when, upon reflecting over the politics of 2014, we also remember those in the political world who passed from the scene. Janet Hook of the Wall Street Journal and Alan Ehrenhalt of Governing magazine sit down with us for our 2014 Political Junkie Remembrances Special, where we listed some of …
This week is all about unfinished business — from the spending bill to the recount in Arizona. That Arizona race is in the state’s 2nd CD, where Martha McSally, a Republican, leads Democratic incumbent Ron Barber by 161 votes. This week’s (somewhat related) question is: Who was the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. senator? …
With just days to go before they are evicted from majority status, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), released a scathing indictment of the CIA. Their report states that the agency used excessive and illegal tactics against detained terror suspects, covered up the brutality, misrepresented the intelligence from detainees, and …
The holidays are getting closer every day (have you updated your wish list?), so we thought we’d head to reindeer country for this week’s chilly trivia question. In last month’s election in Alaska, the Democratic senator, Mark Begich, and the Republican governor, Sean Parnell, were both defeated. When was the last time a state saw …
Republicans learned what they needed to do to score big electoral victories in 2014, and now it seems they’ve also learned that shutting down the government as a tactic against President Obama and the Democrats over funding the government may not be the best approach. Sarah Mimms, a congressional reporter for the National Journal, explains …
We were honored to have one of our favorite journalists and authors, Jules Witcover, on this week’s podcast talking about his latest book, The American Vice Presidency: From Irrelevance to Power. That got our brains turning about all the VPs we’ve never heard of: William King? Henry Wilson? Or that other guy … Richard Cheney? So we thought …
Just weeks after his party took a historic drubbing in the midterm election, President Obama turned the tables on the Republicans and said he would use his executive powers to change the nation’s immigration policy. He said he was forced to take that position after months and months of inaction in the Republican-led House. Lauren …
The elections are over and now it’s time for Congress to start governing. At least that’s the plan for the lame-duck session, designed to take up issues the House and Senate failed to get to prior to October, when lawmakers left town to campaign. But aside from working on a spending bill and votes on …
We know, for the most part, the winners and losers in the Nov. 4th elections. Now it’s time to break down the results even more. While it was a great night for Republicans, and an awful one for Democrats, it was less clear of a message for women. In terms of party winners, female Republicans …