Having confirmed most of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees a month into his second term, the Senate will soon shift ...

Shortly after Donald Trump blindsided senators and endorsed the House’s plan to advance the president’s agenda Wednesday, Senate Leader John Thune convened his leadership team to navigate next steps.

German voters are heading to the polls Sunday for a national election. The race pits the incumbent chancellor against the opposition leader, the vice chancellor and — for the first time — a leader of ...

Despite their apparent powerlessness, Democrats can block appropriations measures with a Senate filibuster, as they could in 2018 when Republicans had a governing trifecta as well. So they have to be ...

There’s also the fact that Hawaiʻi is the only Western state that doesn’t allow statewide citizens initiatives, in which voters can go over the heads of the Legislature and propose their own ballot ...

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i.

A vast majority of 2024 races for Congress and state legislatures were decided by low-turnout or meaningless primaries. The ...

Kansas is one of several red states to launch their own interpretations of DOGE, all conceived in the belief that waste is ...

Ohio lawmakers are joining a nationwide effort to hold a second constitutional convention, with the goal of reining in the ...

Popular conservative Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia, who is top GOP recruit to flip a Democrat held Senate seat in the ...

President Trump and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have increased their efforts to slash ...