Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter that would like to console President Donald Trump for losing the Nobel Peace Prize. The Surge has been there, bud. Buck up, put in the ...

Republicans are on the defensive as Democrats have successfully made the shutdown fight about health care. Most Republicans ...

Some are asking if President Donald Trump, who has criticized the filibuster, might call for the “nuclear option" to remove ...

The hosts of MSNBC’s “The Weekend” burst out laughing Saturday after host Jonathan Capehart cheered a far-right GOP lawmaker for breaking with party leadership amid the ongoing government shutdown. On ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to reporter Greg Bluestein about Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who says her party needs to end the government shutdown and work with Democrats on health care.