Politics & Policy

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Trump will declare a national emergency in order to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz appeared in Philadelphia Wednesday night. He did not commit to an independent presidential run, but is still considering it.

The video game tax would pay for bulletproof glass and metal detectors at schools, but researchers say the proposal is misguided.

From minstrels to the mummers, from governors to Gucci, how blackface began and why it keeps coming up.

According to state officials, it was one of the first credits of its kind — a measure intended to give employers incentives that neighboring states were already providing.

Following a disagreement over a toll hike at the Delaware Memorial Bridge, local governors have reached a compromise.

Draw the Lines PA is a civic group that plans to host a biannual competition where people can make their own congressional district maps.

Spending negotiators may have reached an agreement on an outline to avoid a government shutdown, but the final legislation is still incomplete.

There's a Yiddish saying that "a schlemiel is somebody who often spills his soup." Which brings us to Donald Trump.

Michael Tomasky on political polarization and how to end it

Cory Booker and Bernie Sanders spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with the South Carolina NAACP.

Ed Stack is a gun owner who was a longtime Republican donor. A year after Dick's Sporting Goods became an unlikely face of gun control, it sees the fallout from its policy.

The Senate majority leader wants to put the massive progressive climate change framework to vote. Its Democratic sponsor is not pleased by the move from the Republican.

The Longtime Owner Occupants Program, which seeks to help homeowners who are facing rising tax bills as their properties grow more valuable, could be expanded.

Trump noted that regardless of what happens with the budget deal, a Southern border wall will be built.