Before January 6, 25-year-old Representative Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was known for being the youngest member of Congress, an ardent Trump supporter, and one of the few wheelchair users in elected office. Now he is in the headlines for giving a…
Guardsmen said they were not given a clear reason why they were asked to vacate the buildings. National Guard soldier head to the east front of the U.S. Capitol. | Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images Thousands of National Guardsmen were forced to…
As a violent mob descended on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers and aides hid wherever they could, waiting for military and police to arrive. But many of those who stormed the Capitol were military veterans themselves, who had once sworn to…
iStock, AP; POLITICO Illustration Alex Thompson is a White House reporter for POLITICO. The last time Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell faced off, Biden blinked first. It was the winter of 2012. Then, as now, Democrats had just won a presidential…
Jack Shafer is Politico's senior media writer. Washington's public works department should have built an emergency system of drainage ditches, culverts and tunnels to divert into the Potomac River the torrents of praise, approval and adoration the…
