Unlike exterior columns, interior columns can stick out like sore thumbs. Acting like visual barriers, they block clear lines of sight across a room or simply take up space. But if they are structural ...

For years, I stalked the Capitol halls amid Congress’ fiscal-year-end follies, waiting with other reporters for a breakthrough to end the latest faux crisis. I’m hard-pressed to recall a budget fight ...

In 1872, a man named Hugo Nisbeth traveled from Stockholm, Sweden, to the United States to gather information for a travel guide. To inform Swedish readers on visiting America, he traveled the country ...

Kevin McCarthy’s fall as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has been especially sudden and dramatic, but is only the latest example of intense, internal Republican Party warfare. McCarthy, R ...

If you even noticed the party-line vote in the U.S. House back in June to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, you may have forgotten it by now. Events do move quickly in Washington. And if you did ...

Now that it’s settled down to just a low simmer, the revolt by members of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives has mostly left the front pages. But it would be ...