A wildly important midterm year is off to a chaotic start, with a raid in Venezuela, an uneasy economy and more. Here’s what we’re curious about.

A week ago, it looked like Minnesota Democrats had stumbled into a scandal that might cost their party any chance to win back the U.S. Senate and at the very least turn a safe gubernatorial race

Politics in America these days has increasingly featured unreasoned narratives, meaningless rhetoric and nonsensical drama that ignores crucial problems inhibiting actual governance. The recent record-breaking 43-day federal government shutdown is a prime example.

In the first week of the new year, Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings took to social media to decry recent issues involving America’s political climate.

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. New York City billionaire John Catsimatidis has long been immersed in ...

The House board flashed 427–1. Down on the floor, a Louisiana Republican named Clay Higgins had just cast the lone “no” on a bill ordering the Justice Department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files within 30 days. Within hours, Senate leaders ...

Most Americans expect political violence to keep growing in the United States and believe that it is likely a political candidate will be assassinated in the next few years. Widespread pessimism about political violence is a rare, grim point of consensus ...

In the 1970s, Congress passed a raft of laws to hold the White House accountable. President Trump has decided they don’t apply to him.

“Democracy” gets thrown around a lot in American politics. Usually, when someone wins, they say democracy worked. When someone loses, they say democracy died. Here’s the twist most civics classes rush past: the United States is not a pure democracy.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to ...