Some Democrats were ready to make a deal—but now they sense Donald Trump’s desperation.

Donald Trump is not handling Republicans’ election losses on Tuesday very well.

Donald Trump is attempting to make a massive power grab.

The House minority leader is delaying a vote on Trump’s budget as Republicans fume.

Senate Republicans are forcing through an anti-filibuster measure on the budget bill.

GOP Senators are chipping away at the 60-vote threshold, marking one more step toward majority rule in the upper chamber.

Senator Cory Booker is holding a filibuster-like speech to protest Donald Trump’s reckless overhaul of the federal government.

The Arizona senator believes she single-handedly saved the U.S. Senate.

Republicans did away with the arcane practice when it suited their purposes.

The congressional investigation into the Capitol Riot accomplished much, but it was never a good vehicle to deliver the midterms to the Democrats.

The renowned activist has been fighting for abortion rights since the 1960s. She talked with TNR editor Michael Tomasky about what we must do now to fight for reproductive freedom.

The president has been forced to go it alone thanks to a stalled Congress.

Legislative battles are fronts in a larger—and winnable—ideological war.

Biden is hoping that some sizable portion of his social spending bill might yet make it to his desk.

The party is left mulling the way forward, given the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.

Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin reiterated their opposition to weakening the filibuster on Thursday.

The vice president has constitutional rights, too.

Long after it was an obvious need, the president is asking Democrats in the upper house of Congress to change their rules.

This is how the filibuster carve-out became the hot new thing in making up the rules as you go along.

The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.