Washington, D.C., will briefly have the upper hand Monday.

The nation’s capital often gets the short end of the stick in its dealings with the federal government. Its delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, can’t vote on final passage of bills. Its laws can be undone by acts of Congress, which also has authority over its budget.

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How do you know which states will really swing?

With the general election now essentially under way, pundits, scholars and voters will spend a lot of time trying to figure out which states are really in play.

Based on my experience as a North Carolina reporter in 2008, I propose a simple method: the Embed [...]

Will the Supreme Court justices’ personal health history affect their rulings?

Sometime today, the nine justices of the nation’s highest court met for the first time behind closed doors to discuss how they might vote on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law.

Unlike a lot of other cases before the court, all nine justices [...]