Congress

It feels like half the people I run into just want to pull the covers over their heads and ignore the news. Dozens of vital issues, from economic inequality to cyber-security, are going largely unaddressed.

How did we get here? How did the House and the Senate, which these days can only be called "the world's greatest deliberative body" with ironic air-quotes, become so frustratingly unproductive? There's no single answer, of course. Partisanship and polarization among politicians and...

Voters will have the opportunity to ask questions of the five DFL candidates for Congress in District 8 during a forum Wednesday, April 4, from 6-9 p.m. at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet. All DFL candidates — Joe Radinovich, Leah Phifer, Jason Mesta, Michelle...

We haven't followed it since the middle of the 1990s. Instead, we've been forced to live with high-stakes fiscal brinksmanship. The current budget deal, negotiated between Republicans and Democrats, has the virtue of having included both parties at the table with give and take on...

Congressman Jim Oberstar conceded defeat to opponent Chip Cravaack, ending his 36-year run in Congress. Oberstar, speaking at his office in the Gerald Heaney Federal Building in Duluth, said it wasn't "any one thing" that contributed to his loss, but added that had voter turnout...