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Byline: Philip Bump If you stop and consider it for a moment, this tweet from Joe Grogan, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, doesn't really make any sense. [...]

Byline: Philip Bump At Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Trump argued that his pledge to make America great again had largely reached fruition. 'The days of our country [...]

I used to think there were certain rules about U.S. politics. There were things you had to do, like be nice to veterans. And things you could not do, like [...]

Byline: ;Sebastian Junger Many people balk at the idea that we are a product of evolution. On some level, they acknowledge that humans are social primates with a particular evolutionary [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman If you were a moderate Democrat elected to Congress in 2018, you might worry about how the sweeping proposals from your more liberal colleagues will reflect on [...]

Byline: Colby ItkowitzHere we are 32 days into this partial government shutdown and no closer to a resolution than we were when it started.Most Americans are watching in confusion and [...]

Byline: Joseph MarksTHE KEYDemocrats are far more concerned than Republicans that a foreign power will tamper with U.S. elections and they're more cynical about the government's ability to respond to [...]

Byline: Editorial BoardFOLLOWING THEIR thumping in November's midterm elections, President Trump pretended he had actually won, far-right members of Congress pressed for a government shutdown over border-wall funding, and outgoing [...]

Byline: Tamar HaspelWhat is a partisan, anyway? Let's ask Merriam-Webster.A partisan is 'a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person.' And here's the best part: 'especially one exhibiting [...]

Byline: Anne Applebaum Now that the predictable result has been achieved, it's worth taking a moment to think about the longer-term impact of the bizarre, emotional events of the past [...]

Byline: Dov Weinryb Grohsgal In recent weeks, a great deal of attention has been paid to Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill -- and understandably so. Yet, with Sens. Jeff Flake [...]

Byline: Michael Scherer;Robert Costa When Christine Blasey Ford accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault last month, she did more than open herself up to unwanted scrutiny. She held [...]

Byline: Dan Balz The confirmation battle over the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has left the country as it was before President Trump selected him: [...]

Byline: Megan McArdle 'So, would you vote to confirm?' a conservative friend emailed me on Thursday. Like me, my friend has been torn over that question, watching fearfully as the [...]

Byline: Philip Bump It's an odd place to start, but let's start here since this data is new. What's below is a chart showing how members of each political party [...]

Byline: Carolyn Y. Johnson Politics is polarizing enough, especially when it's easier than ever to find a group of like-minded friends online. The antidote, then, seems obvious: pop the bubble. [...]

Byline: Tom Toles Regardless of the particulars of any given policy or appointment, the fact of a severe partisan split within America is still a fact. There are two ways [...]

We human beings cling to dogmas long after they're disproved. We tend to believe things that make us feel better or remind of us of a past that we miss. [...]

Byline: Paul Kane; Senate Republicans, frustrated with Democrats' stalling tactics, began their effort Wednesday to streamline the process for confirming presidential nominees, particularly those below Cabinet level and in low-level [...]

Byline: Aaron David Miller;Steven Simon Aaron David Miller, a former State Department Middle East analyst and adviser in Republican and Democratic administrations, is a vice president and director of the [...]

Can America unify and rediscover a common national identity? Or are we condemned to political tribalism and polarization? To these gloomy questions the gloomy answer might be: If history is [...]

RUSSELL, KAN. As I set the cruise control on 80 mph and barreled west through the tawny folded Flint Hills and into the gray infinity of prairie Kansas, I realized [...]

Byline: Philip Bump When the New York Times' staggering investigation of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual assaults was published last fall, the Republican National Committee wasted little time in turning the [...]

The U.S. Congress is quietly becoming a European-style parliament -- and the transformation isn't for the good. Congress is fanning, not defusing, conflict. Although I have written about this before, [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Among the few points of agreement among members of the two major political parties is that the Ku Klux Klan is bad. This has not always been [...]

Byline: Philip Bump When he was first running for president in 2008, Barack Obama frequently suggested that he would dismantle the partisanship that had jammed the gears of official Washington. [...]

Byline: Ruth Marcus I'm hoping for the moment when a federal judge picked by a Democratic president strikes down the health-care law. Or when a Republican-appointed judge upholds it. Either [...]