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A former speaker of the U.S. House and the British prime minister have struggled to corral the extreme right factions of their parties.

The centrist Democrat helped deliver her party the House majority in 2018, and her decision to seek higher office could make it more difficult for Democrats to reclaim control in 2024.

A revolt in Congress. Insurgent candidacies in swing states. A likely nominee on trial. This week showed how the party has turned more insular, antagonistic and repellent to general-election voters.

Last week’s Republican primary in Tennessee resulted in a comfortable win for Senator Lamar Alexander over his Tea Party-backed challenger, State Assembly Representative Joe Carr. But make no mistake: The Tea Party is on a roll across the South, having mounted major primary challenges in Texas, Mississippi and South Carolina, and knocked out Representative Eric…

Last month, the United States Senate scheduled a "Health Week" toconsider modest changes to the health care system. It failed topass anything.

Israel is again a wedge issue in election cycle, with the right criticizing Biden for not inviting Netanyahu to Washington, and the left saying foreign aid cuts endanger security

Abstract: The Obama Administration’s $862 billion stimulus bill was an expensive failure that increased the federal deficit, contributed to America’s deteriorating fiscal health, and failed to reduce unemployment. Instead of repeating this mistake, Congress should alleviate business fears and economic uncertainty by maintaining the current tax policy (extending the 2001 and 2003 tax rates) and freezing costly new regulations.

Hurricane Irene and the East Coast earthquake exposed the persistent problems in America’s disaster response system.

The Republican holdouts are showing that party leaders’ usual methods of arm-twisting no longer work. “It’s not about policies, it’s about the fight,” said one former operative.

The growing success of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) is a policyvictory, but Congress should be cautious not to overstep the roleof the government in the health insurance marketplace. Policymakerseager to build on the success of HSAs should focus on improving themanagement and administration of these arrangements, but resisttempting efforts to manipulate the market in favor of them.Congress should retain a level playing field for free marketcompetition in health insurance, including HSAs.