The party is getting some subtantial things done—and catching a lot of lucky breaks.

“I know everything about my caucus,” the Senate majority leader enthused. “I care about them. I love them.”

He’s a nice guy, and the unions like him. But he doesn’t have much of an agenda and doesn’t seem to want one.

The Texas senator’s recent complaint about the Inflation Reduction Act accidentally told the truth about the court’s war against the administrative state.

There’s a lot left to do, but the administration’s four big bills—Covid relief, infrastructure, CHIPs, and the Inflation Reduction Act—are a stirring refutation of trickle-down economics.

The president and media set far too lofty expectations last year that have dragged down his poll numbers among Democrats and distracted from all that he’s accomplished.

Incentivizing renewables is good—but this bill shows how desperately we need to build support for serious fossil fuel restrictions.

Yes, Build Back Better eventually became Build Back Manchin, but for Democrats, it’s better than nothing.

Summer murders are a perennial problem that conservatives, despite their rhetoric, are uniquely ill-equipped to solve.

Between Republican overreach on abortion and Congress finally passing bills, there's newfound confidence. But it's still the fundamentals that will matter most.

The federal government is pretty good at handling the unique problems of seniors. Why don't we do the same for parents and kids?

The Democrats’ new tax-and-spending bill will punish stock buybacks. Not enough. But it’s a start.

The biggest takeaway from a long weekend of legislative action is that this is no way to run a country.

While the bill that just survived the Senate is a whittled-down version of the Build Back Better Act, it still puts the Democratic party on a promising new path.

The upper chamber's “vote-a-rama” may sound like a real fun way to spend a Saturday night, but guess what?

The pundits predicted a red wave in the midterms, but Democrats are building a blue wall.

Why can’t Democrats deliver the steep tax increases on corporations and the rich that voters demand?

The Manchin climate compromise continues the worrisome trend of treating oil and gas infrastructure as a security necessity—even though they endanger more than they protect.

While the bill will fall short of the Biden administration’s ambitious climate goals, the fact that it will include climate provisions of any kind is an unexpected surprise.

The ruling party was set to be slaughtered in the 2022 midterm elections—then the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin struck a deal.