The U.S. Congress is getting younger – on the whole, at least – according to a Pew Research Center analysis of representatives and senators in the new 119th Congress. The median age of voting members ...

But he has less authority over Republicans in Congress, who have a pivotal role in advancing his agenda. The Senate, for instance, must approve his choices for more than 1,000 jobs, including all ...

It doesn’t have to be this way. To escape our two-party trap, we need a better system of electing people to Congress: proportional representation. Opinion By Jesse Wegman and Lee Drutman ...

He promised to introduce a system of proportional representation designed to “make every vote count.” Proportional representation is an electoral system designed to create a representative ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

The 119th session of Congress is officially in full swing ... Six states will have no women representation in either chamber this time around, with Mississippi being the only state having never ...

Congress is ready to put up a fight. Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who control NASA’s purse strings, want Americans to return to the lunar surface in 2027 — and they’re not willing to ...

and the pioneering introduction of a proportional representation system. Commission members have crafted these recommendations as a roadmap to be rolled out in phases—short, medium, and long ...

Speaker Mike Johnson may have the House’s top job — but it’s an anesthesiologist from Queens who might soon be the most powerful member of Congress. Rep. Andy Harris, who has repped the ...

Thousands of protesters shouting “No to Nazis” gathered in the German town of Riesa, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party held a key convention approving co-leader Alice ...

The opening day of a new Congress is usually electric — noisy, celebratory and hopeful. Constituents pack the galleries to watch their hometown heroes being sworn-in for the first time.