Tag: House speaker

You have to admire Johnson a little for having the courage to take on such a kamikaze job.

The U.S. House of Representatives has a new speaker in Mike Johnson of Louisiana.

The U.S. has got its federal government back. But Mike Johnson is not an answer to the nation’s political dysfunction.

For a new speaker with a razor-thin Republican majority, it will be almost impossible to counteract the right wing hard-liners who ... humiliated him ... to the bitter end.

The Republicans are increasingly becoming a liability, and not only for the political culture of the United States.

[W]hether McCarthy will visit Taiwan remains something that “both Taiwan and the U.S. must discuss.”

[E] in Congress show precisely that the Trump era has not come to a close.

The Republicans look like a divided party in which personal vanity is more important than governing.