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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The political action committee affiliated with J Street added Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts to its list of endorsed senators, with the result [...]

Congress is set return to Washington to face what might be the busiest news week of 2018. Much of the action will take place off of the House and Senate chamber floors, where lawmakers are [...]

Republicans are working on a backup plan in case the GOP tax law does not turn out to be a strong selling point for their party in this year’s midterm elections. While the booming economy is [...]

Voters in seven states cast their ballots Tuesday in what amounts to the most significant primary election of the 2018 season, a Super Tuesday for partisans battling for control of Congress. In [...]

The Israeli government has been lapping it up, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praising the Donald Trump adminitrations’s “unvarnished” and “straightforward” envoy. But Democrats and [...]

The inauguration of the new US embassy in Jerusalem was not the only event Monday that reflected a growing partisan divide over Israel in the Trump era. Across the Atlantic, several hours after [...]

Democrats hold a 10-point lead on the generic House ballot, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll published Monday. Fifty percent of respondents said they would vote for the Democratic [...]

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee launched its annual conference with an appeal to bipartisanship, including a plea to progressives not to leave the pro-Israel cause. “To my friends in [...]

The number of women running for Congress here this year is surging, fueled by indignation over the wave of sexual harassment claims against office-holders, anti-Trump sentiment and an abundance [...]

In the era of President Donald Trump, Democrats are the ones looking to return power to the states. On climate, guns, trade, infrastructure, immigration and more, they’ve gone from talking about [...]