2018 Elections

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Beltway Confidential

King, Tlaib, Ellison, and more: An awful night for Jews and #MeToo

Tiana Lowe Doescher · November 8, 2018 12:42 am

Democratic candidate for Arizona governor David Garcia (pictured right) pauses as he gives his concession speech while his wife, Lori (pictured left), applauds at an election night gathering for Democrats on Tuesday in Phoenix.

Beltway Confidential

Progressive candidates blew it in the competitive midterm races

Becket Adams · November 8, 2018 12:20 am

The media’s Democrat darlings of the midterm elections all failed

Eddie Scarry · November 8, 2018 12:00 am

Exit polls: How women voters swept Democrats to victory in suburbs

Melissa Quinn · November 7, 2018 10:55 pm

A group of women early vote in the midterm elections after the Women's March Chicago on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018 in Chicago.

13 women who made history by being elected to Congress this week

Diana Stancy Correll · November 7, 2018 10:35 pm

Beltway Confidential

Pro-life movement makes small but important strides in midterm elections

Nicole Russell · November 7, 2018 10:35 pm

An attendant weighs marijuana at the Far West Holistic Center dispensary, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Detroit.

32 states have legalized medical marijuana and 10 will let you smoke it

Anna Giaritelli · November 7, 2018 10:33 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., speaks during the 2019 California Democratic Party State Organizing Convention in San Francisco, Sunday, June 2, 2019.

Democratic 2020 candidate rips Jeff Sessions’ firing

Caitlin Yilek · November 7, 2018 10:08 pm

President Trump takes questions from journalists during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Washington.

Washington Secrets

Mr. Accessible: Trump takes 68 questions from 35 reporters, three times as much as Obama

Paul Bedard · November 7, 2018 9:44 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at a luncheon event organized by the Boston Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, at a hotel in Boston.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s war on Jeff Sessions is over, the attorney general’s war on pot should be too

Erin Dunne · November 7, 2018 9:42 pm

Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill., chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Tax Policy, joined at left by Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, describes the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul, the first major revamp of the tax system in three decades, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017.

Tax law falls flat for Republicans in midterm elections

Colin Wilhelm · November 7, 2018 9:37 pm

The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington is shrouded in fog early in the morning.

Democratic win in the House was a swell but no blue wave

David Mark · November 7, 2018 9:33 pm