
Mike Johnson: In Trump’s shadow
The new speaker of the House is bringing anti-politics to the position and threatening to destroy all democratic pragmatism in Washington

The new speaker of the House is bringing anti-politics to the position and threatening to destroy all democratic pragmatism in Washington

Johnson’s early moves have confounded administration officials, particularly his strategy on aid to Israel

The new House speaker, a son of a firefighter, has extinguished the fire raging within the Republican caucus, but threatens to set national politics ablaze

European leaders focused on the order of the day, the Israel-Hamas war, and didn’t come back to the issue of Russia’s war in Ukraine after Zelenskiy’s videoconference

Progressive faith leaders expressed alarm at Johnson’s election, and his remarks evoking the Bible as saying authorities are chosen by God