Utilizing National Journal expertise to explore the issues of today.
On August 27, 2018, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the first round of direct farm-assistance payments to be released through the Trump administration’s $12 billion trade mitigation package. Arguing that these measures would serve as a stopgap until more lasting trade deals could be struck,
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As Republicans and Democrats battle over President Trump’s most recent Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is quietly and rapidly scheduling votes for lower court nominees without much pushback from Democrats. National interest has fixated on the nominations of Neil Gorsuch
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Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election defied the predictions of most well-known pollsters, who had estimated Clinton’s likelihood of winning in the 70 to 99 percent range. After Trump’s win, many headlines suggested that the polls had failed, and the
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Almost a decade on from the 2008 Financial Crisis, the United States is entering one of the longest periods of continuous economic growth in recent history. While this is good news, investors and policymakers are increasingly asking: how close is the next crisis, and what
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With November’s general elections four months away, both parties are gearing up for an election that might propel Democrats to a majority – or might not. The House has attracted the most attention: Democrats need to pick up only 23 Republican-held seats in the 435-seat
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Each day, over 115 people die due to an opioid overdose. The opioid crisis is taking tens of thousands of American lives annually and is expected to cost the US over $1.5 trillion by 2021. Seven months after the opioid epidemic was declared a public
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Even if voting machines never go online, digital threats to the US political system loom over this year’s midterm elections and, presumably, every election to come. A full year after US intelligence agencies unanimously agreed that President Vladimir Putin directed a Russian operation to interfere
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In November, voters from southwest Pennsylvania will vote for a congressional candidate for the second time this year. Instead of a Republican incumbent, which they’ve had for the past 15 years, the incumbent will be Democrat Conor Lamb. He recently beat Republican Rick Saccone in
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“All politics is local.” So said former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neil. The phrase means that, to succeed in politics, a politician must appeal to the mundane, everyday, and indeed local concerns of his or her constituents. But political analyst Charlie Cook, who
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