This list has evolved over many years of W&L courses and research and was most recently enhanced for the Congress and the Legislative Process course, taught by Brian Alexander.  Professor Alexander's discussion of these sources is available:

Daily Essentials

• Axios (especially Axios AM)
• Washington Post  (especially Politics section)
• New York Times  (especially Politics section)
• Wall Street Journal  (especially Politics section).   Individual accounts for access to Digital WSJ is available to current W&L students and faculty @ this link .  (In your initial login, you may be prompted to enter your W&L ID and password, but then you will need to set up and use your own individual WSJ personal ID and password.)
• Politico  (especially Huddle)
• Roll Call
• National Public Radio  (especially Morning Edition)

Focus on Congress

• C-Span
• CQ Magazine  W&L subscription.
• National Journal Daily  (also Hotline)  W&L subscription.
• The Hill
• Congressional Record  (Daily Digest)

More Excellence

• BBC News  (U.S. and Canada)
• Bloomberg News
• The Economist  (U.S. section)
• Morning Consult  (Washington section)
• PBS NewsHour
• RealClear Politics
• Sabato's Crystal Ball

These resources enable you to browse chronologically, examining issues and events in particular years or presidential administrations.

Congress and the Nation. Congressional Quarterly.

Quadrennial overviews of national politics, 1945-2012.

Historic Documents. Congressional Quarterly.

From 1972 through 2015.

Supreme Court Yearbook.  Congressional Quarterly.

Annual overviews of from 1989 to 2016.