The Hill

Pendulum pattern of House power yields to particle accelerator model

In preparing for a talk on the relationship between House Speakers and the Rules Committee (subtitled, “The Speaker’s Committee?”), I took the occasion to reread two Congressional Research Service ...
Yahoo

For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Who will be in the majority in Congress after the midterm elections? Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus Now that the 2026 ...
Wall Street Journal

House in Holding Pattern over Speaker Vote

All the names have been called for the first ballot in the House speaker race, but the clerk’s staff hasn’t officially closed the vote. Leaving the vote open presumably gives Republican leaders time ...
The New York Times

This St. Louis House Is a Pattern-Filled Time Portal to the ’80s

In her home, the artist Katherine Bernhardt conjures the giddy heyday of the Memphis design group. In a room of the artist Katherine Bernhardt’s house in St. Louis that she, like the original owners, ...