It's an annual tradition over here at NBCNews.com to pause to remember the year's most preposterous moments in political news. It gets weirder every year.

From sexual misconduct allegations to deals with Russian companies, here are the 7 most notable political scandals of 2017.

A look back at the year in politics, including the inauguration of President Donald Trump and the work of the new, Republican-controlled Congress.

2016 was the year where one political controversy or another was always around the corner. But 2017 promises to be just as unpredictable.

Once upon a time not terribly long ago, federal politicians more or less kept their campaigning to election years. They reserved their energies in odd-numbered, non-election years for legislating and ...

2017 Was the Year We Fought for Democracy — Now What? A year-end retrospective by Thigh High Politics columnist Lauren Duca.

It has been a year of reckoning for women in the United States. It began with hundreds of thousands of women across the country and the rest of the world marching for women's rights. It would ...

What's the biggest political story of the year? It's too hard to decide. You can vote in our March Madness-style contest of 64 eye-popping stories that made waves in 2017.

Scientists taking to the streets, enormous icebergs rupturing, a solar eclipse that captured the nation's attention and new insights into the workings of the universe. 2017 has been quite a year ...

After Seismic Political Shift, Modest Changes in Public’s Policy Agenda More view the environment, foreign trade as top policy priorities ...

2016 was the year where one political controversy or another was always around the corner. But 2017 promises to be just as unpredictable.