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An image of a gavel What Should Congress Be?
Former Representative Justin Amash’s critique of the House illuminates its failures to live up to democratic ideals––and casts the fight over its rules in a new light.
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Scott Olson / Getty Amazingly, George Santos Is a Member of Congress
The GOP strategy of acclimatizing us to scandal is still working.
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Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency / Getty The GOP Goes Down the Rabbit Hole
Welcome to the Republican Wonderland.
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Getty; The Atlantic All the Pretty Republicans
If Cormac McCarthy interpreted the humiliations of Kevin McCarthy
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Andrew Harnik / AP Speaker in Name Only
Kevin McCarthy finally has the job he always wanted. What did he sacrifice to get it?
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty In Politics, Is Older Better?
Franklin Foer argues that youthful vigor is no match for hard-won experience.
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Tom Williams / Getty Nothing Is Working for Kevin McCarthy
The deadline for the Republican leader to cut a deal or quit the speaker’s race is fast approaching.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty No Tears for Kevin McCarthy
It would be better for everyone if his candidacy for House speaker failed.
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Win McNamee / Getty The GOP-Speaker-Vote Burlesque
Whether McCarthy wins or loses is irrelevant.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Humiliation of Kevin McCarthy
The new GOP majority can’t decide on a leader.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty You’ll Miss Gerontocracy When It’s Gone
Are the oldsters who refuse to retire hoarding power or just better at wielding it?
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Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call / Getty The Republican Majority’s Opening Debacle
House Republicans return to Washington today in disarray.
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Tom Williams / Getty; The Atlantic An Ousted Trump Target on Leaving Congress
Outgoing Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler reflects on the forces that ended her 12-year term, and what might have been different.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Elizabeth Frantz / … The Senate Needs More Kyrsten Sinemas
America’s most popular party affiliation isn’t Republican or Democratic. So why does Congress have so few independents?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Kyrsten Sinema and the Myth of Political Independence
Pretending to be independent in a partisan system won’t improve America’s politics. But more parties might.
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David Becker / The Washington Post / Getty How a Perfectly Normal New York Suburb Elected a Con Man
Democratic complacency, Republican extremism, and media decline helped George Santos take over my old congressional district.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Republican Party Is in a Strange Place
“Republicans don’t have a Trump problem. They have a voter problem.”
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Ilana Panich-Linsman / The New York Times / … ‘She Made an Idiot Out of Me’
Conversations with Kyrsten Sinema’s former canvassers reveal anger and disappointment with the newly independent senator from Arizona.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Republicans Need a Reckoning
The party of Lincoln must end its embrace of sedition.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Threat to Democracy Is Still in Congress
One hundred forty-seven Republicans voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Almost all of them are still in office.
