Ron Elving

The reaction to Roe vs. Wade was immense, but not immediately so. It took months and years for the anti-abortion movement to fully form, to organize and gain political power.

We look at what the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion means for midterm elections and what Congress can do to guard access to contraception and same-sex marriage from a similar fate.

Shakespeare observed that "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Something similar seems to apply to the title of Republican leader in the U.S. House of Representatives.

We'll take a look at two grand jury investigations into former President Donald Trump, as well as the fate of the Ukraine aid and COVID spending bills currently in Congress.

Liberal activists are hoping to use part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to keep Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene off the ballot in Georgia. We look at the history of the provision.

The concept and practice of the U.S. government deciding what to recognize as a genocide is profoundly political, both in contemporary and historical cases.

President Biden's support for Ukraine has not garnered enthusiasm from the U.S. public. Another inflation record. And the Republicans drop out of presidential debates.

Responsibility is difficult to prove conclusively in a war zone, and evidence might have to link such acts to national leaders far from the battlefield. But it has happened.

The Senate confirms the first Black woman as justice on the U.S. Supreme Court and also deals additional rebukes to Russia on trade.

The U.S. economy continues to create new jobs at a rapid pace. President Biden taps the strategic petroleum reserve to lower gas prices. Also, the seven-hour gap in White House logs on Jan. 6, 2021.

Biden was far from the first U.S. president to say what he thought about Russia or its leaders — or to pay a price for it.

The U.S. continues its work to economically isolate Russia, and most lawmakers are on board. Also: a look ahead to Monday's Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

Other addresses to Congress by foreign leaders have paled compared to Winston Churchill welding with his words the alliance that overcame Adolph Hitler, until Volodymyr Zelenskyy's this week.

American gas stations displaying high prices this summer and fall will matter more than all the campaign billboards put together in affecting the November midterm elections.

We look at the Biden administration response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the potential economic and political fallout of the U.S. cutting off Russian energy imports.

In One Damn Thing After Another, Bill Barr alternates between castigating and exonerating. He catalogs Trump's offenses yet casts him as the latest victim of dishonest media and "the radical Left."

There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.

President Biden succeeded in unifying NATO's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which may give him more credibility to pursue his domestic agenda.

The Biden administration responds to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the president announces his historic pick to replace Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

Even when under maximum pressure, presidents have viewed the speech as a unique opportunity to make their case to the rest of the government, to the nation as a whole and to the wider world as well.