Biden will spend Friday night stumping for Terry McAuliffe.

Cheney stands in the way of the committee becoming meaningless.

A key vote on the president's infrastructure bill comes Wednesday.

The legislative calendar and real-world events are reordering priority lists and threatening to leave several big items behind.

Without people seeing the federal government as a force for good, not many possible outcomes are attractive to President Joe Biden's party.

What Democrats are doing is coalescing around a message -- arguing that falsehoods about the last election are driving changes in voting laws.

The debate from here over Democrats' $3.5 trillion spending plan will, once again, be an exercise in securing party loyalty for President Joe Biden's White House.

The urgent question for Dems is whether they can make any changes of their own at the federal level, while they have power in Washington if not necessarily enough votes.

Former President Trump is relishing the fact that he appears to remain a force who can blow up policy and political plans even without access to Twitter or Facebook.

Biden's "door to door" comment is drawing blowback from the GOP.

The coming months will fill gaps but appear less likely than ever to achieve political consensus surrounding the facts.

This critical summer for the pandemic coincides with a critical legislative stretch for Biden's agenda. Dems are banking on progress in both areas in the months to come.

This middle part of 2021 has felt a bit like 2020, with a torrent of news leading in multiple potential directions.

Former President Donald Trump likes to talk about himself as counter-puncher, yet these blows could be harder than usual to return.

Whether or not former President Donald Trump runs again, Trumpism is here to stay -- through 2022 and 2024, if not beyond.

To many elected Republicans, former President Donald Trump is engaged in a sideshow that they'd just as soon ignore, but he's going to keep feeding the news cycle.

The president said the deal signals American democracy can work.

President Joe Biden has the chance to play the role he has long coveted on Thursday when a group of bipartisan senators brief him on an infrastructure "framework" deal.

Expectations are in danger of outpacing realities with enough regularity to bring intra-party grumbles.

Already, New York City's mayoral race has upended expectations about how a race to run the nation's largest city would play out in 2021.

It’s a showdown more than half a year – perhaps even decades - in the making.

Congress is in the middle of a flurry of legislating, but it will fall to Biden in large part to define what he wants to do with the dwindling calendar.

Russian President Vladimir Putin showed a keen understanding of U.S. domestic politics that will follow President Joe Biden back home.

Biden's cast this moment in broad terms for the U.S. -- a chance to assert the power of democratic nations in the face of challenges from China and Russia in particular.

President Joe Biden will be hard-pressed to deliver on some of the major goals he pushed the G-7 leaders to agree to.

The president continues his trip abroad this weekend.

President Joe Biden's emphasis on science resonates beyond the pandemic and into other areas of public health and in climate change.

The blockbuster landed at a critical time -- with President Joe Biden and some in his party looking for a deal on taxes, but on slightly different terms.

If Terry McAuliffe wins his party's nomination for Virginia governor on Tuesday, he will have Bidenism in part to thank.

It's not so much a standoff as it is a standstill. And Democrats can blast Republicans -- but really they have their own members to blame.

Quietly but undeniably, President Joe Biden's influence over the path of his party has grown, even as he faces a potential inflection point over his governing agenda.

President Joe Biden's meeting with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito on Wednesday again reveals the complicated relationship the president has with the notion of bipartisanship.

A Texas politician named George Bush could test the the post-presidential sway of Donald Trump

As the price tag has shrunken, the stakes surrounding a possible infrastructure deal have managed to grow, with other forces pushing the WH and GOP senators further away.

There just might be deals for President Joe Biden to make after all. That doesn't necessarily mean, though, that he'll calculate that he can afford to cut them.

President Joe Biden's course shift on the origins of the coronavirus is one of those developments that means both less and more than it might seem.

Diplomacy that is diplomatic and putting real faith in Congress to work toward solutions are part of what makes normal feel abnormal.

President Joe Biden is pursuing bipartisanship for his agenda amid diverging political factions.

What Republicans at the state and national level are calling efforts to force transparency are, in fact, increasingly transparent.

This past week set the uncertain stage for President Joe Biden to get Republicans to work with him on key parts of his agenda.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making clear that she has a backup plan. "If they don't want to do this," Pelosi said of Senate Republicans, "we will find the truth."

A vote on establishing a commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection happens Wednesday with the only question being how many Republicans support it.

The full meaning of the 6-3 conservative edge on the Supreme Court is only beginning to be felt. That matters for President Joe Biden and his agenda.

It leaves Republicans deeply divided over a person and his personality -- with Trump doing double-duty as a vote-motivator and a massive distraction for the GOP.

More quietly, yet no less significantly, President Joe Biden may be getting progress out of his meetings with both Democrats and Republicans on infrastructure.

Rep. Liz Cheney won’t be going away -- and neither will the very real concerns she’ll bring to national politics for some time.

This year, winning in Virginia -- a once reliably Republican state -- will mean owning not just Trump but the messaging he's established as mantra inside the GOP.

Republicans may find themselves, to quote Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, in the middle of a "circular firing squad," but that may not spare Biden from some of the damage.

The action in state legislatures on voting laws may be a better indication of where the GOP stands than even the drive to eliminate Rep. Liz Cheney from House leadership.