In order to adapt to the age of climate change, insurance rates need to increase.

Why we must do everything differently to ensure the planet’s survival

Party leaders like Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer say they won’t repeat the missteps of Barack Obama’s first term. They haven’t proved it quite yet.

With the pandemic raging and millions still out of work, there is a case for moving swiftly to pass an imperfect stimulus bill.

The Senate Minority Leader’s too-clever-by-half demands may push Democrats to throw over the Jim Crow–era relic once and for all.

His message of unity has broad appeal in a shattered country. But does Mitch McConnell care?

It’s the only way to banish Trumpism and fix American democracy in earnest.

Even if the Senate votes to convict the president, it would come at a cost.

He’s an immediate threat to America, and yet Democratic leaders are showing little urgency.

Now that Democrats have won the Senate, there’s a better way to spend that money.

Centrist senators like Joe Manchin and Jon Tester will decide the fate of the party’s more ambitious legislative goals.

We need a country that doesn’t make debt accumulation the cost of entry into a decent life.

America needed a bigger boat. The latest stimulus package tosses a pair of arm floaties.

Senate Republicans think they might get their colleagues across the aisle to cave on a liability shield. They may be right.

The zombie idea from middle school civics that might sink the Biden administration

The Democratic Party can’t be mired in intraparty fights about what’s “too far left.” Life as we know it is at stake.

Some in the party believe the 87-year-old senator is ill-equipped to lead the opposition to Trump’s Supreme Court nominee—so why won’t they do anything about it?

Their leaders’ timidity has failed to limit Republican extremism. So it will cost them nothing to fight tooth and nail against McConnell’s latest plot.

The Democrats prefer to whine about Republican extremism rather than retaliate. If the party wins in November, nothing less than absolute ruthlessness will do.

Canceling student debt will prevent irreversible wealth loss in younger Americans. But they’re not the only ones who would benefit.