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Read CNN’s Fast Facts on John Boehner and learn about the former speaker of the US House of Representatives.

(News Analysis)WASHINGTON -- In the end, Republican hard-liners got their man.He wasnt the person whom the most extreme element of House Republicans really wanted -- that was Rep. Jim Jordan

Introducing Mike Johnson, the 56th speaker of the House.

Former Republican house majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) had a large victory in court yesterday, but ABC and NBC didn’t think it was important enough to include in their evening news broadcasts. As reported by the Washington Post: "Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) won an early round in his money-laundering and conspiracy trial Tuesday by getting a judge aligned with Democratic candidates and causes removed from the case."Yet, even though the announcement of DeLay’...

An expert on House speakers explains how changes in campaign finance, media, and the type of people who get elected created the current debacle.

The current chaos is not the first time Republicans have found themselves rocked by a vacancy at the top.

Republicans these days tend to complain about “woke” culture, referring pejoratively to an increasing attention to, awareness of, and concern about abiding

The GOP was once feared for its ability to unite and win – but Kevin McCarthy’s demise shows a party deeply divided

The GOP was once feared for its ability to unite and win – but Kevin McCarthy’s demise shows a party deeply divided

Illustration by Elizabth Brockway/The Daily BeastThere have been MAGA true believers shitting on the floor of the Congress ever since Jan. 6, 2021. But the right wing’s active desecration of the U.S. government extends far beyond ugly recent events on Capitol Hill, and dates back long before the Trumpist insurrection of two and a half years ago.In fact, the origins of the attacks on the government date back at least four decades to the Reagan administration, when the former president popu...