The next to last draft of this column started with the line: “Both consumers and the markets are showing serious signs of the ...

Reaching Washington used to be the pinnacle of a politician’s career. But increasingly, being one of 100 senators in a deeply ...

Amy, Jessica, Erin and Matthew get together to talk about Senate retirements and who might be the next to announce, ...

The seven-state Electoral College battleground of 2024 became such a cliche that it's hard to believe that states other than ...

Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears no longer has a clear primary path to the GOP nomination for Virginia governor this year, with ...

Despite the outsized media attention that a president’s performance at the State of the Union/Joint Address to Congress gets, ...

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Whether President Donald Trump has a “real” mandate for many of the polarizing things he and his administration are doing is ...

In one the most over-hyped annual events on the political calendar, President Trump Tuesday night will address a joint ...

First Person is a series of quick videos from the Cook Political Report editors exclusively for our premium members. This week, David discusses key takeaways from our newly released 2025 Cook PVI ...