Chris Good's Slant

Since the 2010 election cycle, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has had to watch his right flank. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has been fostering a conservative Senate axis, of which he is the center, and a major storyline in Washington Republican politics has become DeMint's growing influence in ..

In 2006, Keith Ellison became the first Muslim elected to Congress. Things haven't always been easy since then. Before Ellison even got to Washington, Townhall columnist Dennis Prager attacked him for wanting to be (ceremonially) sworn into Congress on a Quran, rather than a Bible. Prager wrote, "Mr ..

John Ensign, the Nevada senator who admitted an affair with a female staffer in 2009, will retire from the Senate at the end of his current term, capping off a career nosedive that saw him fall from party star to seat ceder.

Chris Good - Chris Good is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes for the Politics channel. He has previously reported and blogged for The Hill newspaper.

It's official: Newt Gingrich is...thinking about running for president. Gingrich launched his presidential exploratory website this afternoon at NewtExplore2012.com.

Gov. Gary Johnson speaks at an event in downtown Phoenix. credit: Gage Skidmore/FlickrOn paper, Gary Johnson seems to fit right in with the rest of the potential 2012 Republican presidential field.Having served two terms as governor of New Mexico -- one more term in office than Mitt Romney, and one- ..

Despite their failure to repeal the Democratic health care law, congressional Republicans aren't done holding votes on the matter. The Senate voted last night on repeal, as an amendment attached to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill. As expected, it failed in a 51-47 vote alon ..

The White House called Monday's health care ruling "unconventional," critiquing federal Judge Roger Vinson's analysis as "out of the mainstream." "This judge is the outlier on not only doing a very expansive ruling but declaring that implementation must stop," a senior administration official said ..

Chris Good - Chris Good is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes for the Politics channel. He has previously reported and blogged for The Hill newspaper.

The two alternate State-of-the-Union responses didn't differ much on policy. It was style--pure style--that set them apart, and from this we can probably learn something about where the tea party and the Republican Party stand. Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), who offered the official GOP rebuttal a ..

President Obama has chosen his next chief of staff, and the winner is Bill Daley, the former Commerce Secretary under Bill Clinton who has worked for J.P. Morgan Chase since 2004. Daley has two notable things in common with his predecessor, Rahm Emanuel: Chicago roots and a career in finance.

Of course, Republicans won't actually repeal health care reform. Having promised to repeal "Obamacare" during the midterms, Republicans won control of the House and are preparing to vote on repeal next Wednesday, but there is zero chance that this single vote will nullify the new 1,016-page health ..

It's official: Rahm Emanuel can run for mayor of Chicago. The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners ruled Thursday that Emanuel meets the Chicago-residence requirement despite living in Washington, D.C., for the past year and a half while working as President Obama's chief of staff. On paper ..