It was hard not to wonder how Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a polio survivor ... Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political ...

The conventional wisdom on Capitol Hill has long been that Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell would retire at the end of his current term, rather than run for re-election in Kentucky. It now appears ...

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, leaving the seat open to a new slate of contenders. Newsweek reached out to McConnell's ...

In March of the same year, Dr. Rachel Levine won confirmation by the Senate to lead the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps as the assistant secretary for health. She holds the rank of ...

Rachel Dobkin is a Newsweek reporter based in New York. Her focus is reporting on politics. Rachel joined Newsweek in October 2023. She is a graduate of The State University of New York at Oneonta ...

Rachel Dobkin is a Newsweek reporter ... telling reporters earlier Friday, "Of course Mitch is always a no vote, I guess." McConnell explained his no vote in a statement issued Friday, "Effective ...

Rachel Roubein and Lauren Weber contributed to this report. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who battled polio as a child, warned on Friday that anyone seeking a Senate ...

The twilight of Mitch McConnell’s career is rife with contradictions. McConnell has arguably been among the biggest enablers of Donald Trump’s rise in the Republican Party and American politics.

Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an... Dr. Rachel Levine focused on her job at HHS.