Where is Congress? Looking ahead to the 2026 midterm elections
Georgetown professor Michele Swers examines Congress's role in the current political moment and what structural shifts could shape the midterms.
Why we picked this
With the midterms approaching and Congress increasingly sidelined, Swers brings the institutional expertise to explain not just what's happening but why the structures that are supposed to check executive power have stopped working.
The question “Where is Congress?” is not rhetorical — it’s the defining institutional puzzle of this political moment. Georgetown professor Michele Swers examines why Congress has been so conspicuously absent from the major policy fights of recent years and what structural factors might change the equation heading into the 2026 midterms.
Swers brings deep institutional knowledge to a conversation that too often defaults to personality-driven analysis. Her focus is on the structures, incentives, and historical patterns that explain congressional behavior — or inaction — regardless of who holds the gavel.
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