Congress wrote the statutes establishing the new government’s Departments of Foreign Affairs, War, and Treasury, placing them under the president’s supervision and direction. Congress even gave the ...

The U.S. Congress is a complex and subtle organization, but sometimes its changing character and mood can be understood through a single individual. The First Congress, determined to keep alive a ...

1. The first Congress began in 1789, and truth be told, it wasn’t really the first. The Confederation Congress met from 1781 ...

Congress is terribly unpopular, and no one who watches it closely is satisfied with how it is working. Our national legislature barely manages to do its most basic work (such as funding the government ...

Behind the scenes of freshman Rep. Cori Bush's first weeks in Congress. Cori Bush had been through Black Lives Matter protests, overcome homelessness, gone public as a domestic abuse and sexual ...

As Congress — the 117th Congress, to be precise — speeds toward a government shutdown, we slowed down to look back at the first Congress. Are things really all that different now than they were at the ...

The First Continental Congress, a brazen show of both defiance and union by the American colonies on the road to revolution, met on this day in history, Sept. 5, 1774. It was the first time many of ...

Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the ...