American voters are almost as polarized as the lawmakers who represent them.

The trouble with making “functional” government the great aspiration of America is that a smoothly operating Congress is not necessarily moral, humane or even economically smart.

The CEO of Wider Opportunities for Women talks about challenges and opportunities for states to crucially improve the economic security of their residents.

Political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann argue that congressional dysfunction is mostly the fault of right wing radicals within the Republican Party.