In 2023, my husband and I bought our house in southwest Colorado, in part, because it backed up to open space. That was the dream: trails just past the fence, a scrubby network of oak and sage stretch...
Brian Fitzpatrick’s survival mechanism as a battleground House Republican in the Philadelphia suburbs entails occasionally distancing himself from his own MAGA-controlled party. On Thursday he took th...
Republicans just delivered Donald Trump a “big, beautiful” legislative win. Now they’re fretting it will lead to some ugly electoral losses. GOP lawmakers are warning that slashing spending on Medicai...
Last weekend, my colleague Christian Paz wrote about how the Democratic Party could be on the brink of a grassroots takeover, similar to what the GOP experienced with the Tea Party movement. It’s a fa...
Democrats believe President Donald Trump’s tax-and-spend megabill gives them a heavy cudgel ahead of the 2026 midterms. Now they have to effectively wield it as they try to reclaim the House. Ad-maker...
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill was always destined to pass, and it’s instructive to realize why: for Republican lawmakers, this was an up-or-down vote on President Donald Trump. The sprawling measur...
This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. As a millennial, I had my fair share of ’90s summers. I rode my bike, I read,...
Former Rep. Colin Allred is jumping back into the Texas Senate race, after losing to Ted Cruz eight months ago. In a video released Tuesday, Allred, who flipped a red-leaning district in 2018, pledged...
Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s ability to pass the “big, beautiful bill” is hinging on Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The Alaska senator has been the subject of an intense whip effort by GOP leaders over t...











