Congressional Democrats reintroduced the Freedom to Vote Act, which failed to pass last year.

In a rare interview, the Arizona senator gets tangled up in a web of her own ideological contradictions.

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

The two senators, who have blocked bill after bill, high-fived at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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.

The question driving Vermont’s lone congressman to run for retiring Senator Patrick Leahy’s seat: “Are we going to defend democracy?”

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

The only thing more bizarre than his “Texit” fantasy is his read of the current state of American politics.

The risk to free and fair elections has never been greater, and the GOP’s threats aren’t being met with sufficient opposition.

Maine independent Senator Angus King is leading a chorus of voices urging the president to get in the game.