Ron Elving

Increasing pressure on the Biden administration over its stance on Israel, effective paralysis in the House of Representatives over government funding, election wins Tuesday encourage Democrats.

Johnson’s election is the latest and perhaps most consequential event to date in the alliance of white evangelical Christians with the Republican Party.

It is too soon to know whether current events will be nearly as momentous as those of 1973 — for the region, for the U.S. or for the world at large. But it is also possible they could be more so.

Cannon resisted government regulation of business, supported protective tariffs and frowned upon change in general. It was said that had he been present at the Creation he would have voted against it.

The hardline Republicans want to shift the focus of Congress to their own agenda of opposing, investigating and even impeaching the president or members of his administration.

Using the phrase “comeback kid” helped Bill Clinton revive his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1992 New Hampshire primary. Could Ron DeSantis revive that model?

The 90-year-old Californian’s long absence and current condition raise questions about the institution’s ability to deal with its internal issues of aging or disability.

The memory of the speakership fights leading up to the Civil War remind us that the consequences of dysfunction in the national government affect us all.

Both Kevin McCarthy and the nominee for speaker a century ago represented a party establishment regarded with hostility by a potent faction of the party. They became the embodiment of its grievances.

This year saw President Biden’s first State of the Union address, revelations from the House committee investigating Jan. 6, former President Trump’s campaign announcement and much more.