Category: GOV/POLITICS

Former Fairfax County School Board member Rachna Sizemore Heizer was sworn in as a county supervisor during a ceremony Tuesday night.

Rob Reiner was a mainstream liberal, devoted to expanding social rights and benefits to people arbitrarily denied them.

Rural cities already devote most of their property tax revenue to basic services, leaving little room to absorb new tax cuts.

American presidents occasionally perform roles that extend well beyond the formal obligations of their office. Thomas Jefferson’s tenure (1801–1809) embodied the broader progress of antebellum sout…

Michigan Law recently hosted an annual academic conference focused on the challenges facing local governments in the US.

An Indian man working in Paris shared how Indians abroad created toxic office politics.

Despite being in control of the White House and Congress, Republicans have been unable to pass their health care agenda. We look at why that’s the case, as well as a new lawsuit against the president.

There are more federal tax cuts in the works for people who adopt children. Birth mothers say they also want financial support so they don’t have to place their infants up for adoption.

President Donald Trump said late Saturday afternoon that he had been briefed on the shooting at Brown University that killed at least two people and critically wounded eight.

Fred Upton, a former Republican congressman from Michigan, discusses the Senate’s failed health care votes and the political fallout of rising insurance premiums.