Being a member of Congress from the outside may seem glamorous, but the reality of spending a large portion of the year in Washington, D.C., away from family, with constant eyes on them and the weight of the country on their shoulders, often leaves the job isolating and lonely. In a time of deep partisanship, […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has successfully recruited prized political heavyweights in key battlegrounds, but left-wing insurgents are threatening to dash his plans to create a competitive midterm map for Democrats. The toss-up Maine Senate race is perhaps ground zero for the ideological, and in some cases generational, clash, with embattled first-time candidate Graham […]

President Donald Trump is coming under pressure to deliver on his most notable outstanding domestic policy campaign promise: decreasing inflation. While his outstanding foreign policy promise of ending the Russia–Ukraine war is unlikely to have political consequences for the 2026 midterm elections, the same cannot be said for Trump’s response to inflation. To that end, […]

In President Donald Trump’s second term, tariff relief no longer runs through a bureaucratic process; rather, it runs straight through the Oval Office. Trump, long a proponent of tariffs, has implemented far more aggressive tariffs this year than during his first term. Also notable is that the administration has essentially done away with the process […]