Jill Lepore, a historian, author, New Yorker staff writer, Harvard professor, and The Last Archive podcast host, spoke to a highly engaged audience of VTDigger readers and supporters on Thursday,…
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference after a weekly Republican conference meeting in the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 14, 2023 in Washington, D.C.…
Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group speaks Tuesday, Sept. 17, at a Capitol Hill briefing urging the EPA to ban the use of the herbicide paraquat dichloride to protect…
Illinois Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth speaks about access to in vitro fertilization on the steps of the Capitol building on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, along with other Senate Democrats holding…
The U.S. House as it returns from a five-week recess is preparing to vote on a stopgap spending bill that also includes a provision to bar noncitizens from voting in…
Funding from the federal climate law is providing billions of dollars to support rooftop and community solar in all 50 states. In this photo, a GRID Alternatives employee installs solar…
A classroom at Burnt Ranch Elementary School in Trinity County on Dec. 13, 2019. Photo by Dave Woody for CalMatters I’m CalMatters politics intern Jenna Peterson, pinch-hitting for Lynn today.…
Chuck Hoskin Jr., principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, talks to the media during the tribe’s legislative advocacy day in February. Some of the tribes members live in Oregon. (Janelle…
In summary A tense exchange this summer between two California Democrats revealed an unwritten policy discouraging lawmakers from negotiating bills in legislative committees. It begs the question: Are lawmakers negotiating…
On Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris received the endorsement of more than 100 Republican former national security officials. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) If Republican presidential candidates have traditionally been…