The only thing that will save the GOP’s preferred procedural weapon is the charity—or the naïveté—of Democrats.

He warned of a “scorched-earth Senate” if Democrats kill the filibuster. But that future is already here—thanks largely to him.

Is the West Virginia lawmaker peddling false hope by suggesting he’s open to filibuster reform?

Long before Southern Democrats filibustered Civil Rights legislation, “filibusteros” were conquering slave territories for the United States.

Republican blood feuds are jeopardizing the party’s hope of reclaiming Congress in 2022.

It worked against Obama. But GOP attacks on the Democrats’ Covid stimulus bill are falling on deaf ears after four years of Trump.

It was a foregone conclusion that the former president wouldn’t be convicted—and the mainstream press is finally reaching a consensus about why.

Had Senate Democrats called witnesses during the impeachment trial, they could have won over some independent voters. Instead, they rushed to go on recess.

During the impeachment proceedings, the GOP is revealing just how soulless and spineless it really is.

Mitch McConnell got kudos for condemning the QAnon-supporting nutjob. He doesn’t deserve it.

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

How to make the Senate functional without forcing Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to go back on their word

Nobody does more to dismember the hollow mythology of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” than that body’s members.

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?

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

The Trump era ends with a bang, not a whimper, revealing a misplaced faith in our elected officials to protect the democratic project.

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

The Republican Party is in disarray.

The Senate majority leader is poisoning a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000—and foreshadowing his tactics under a Biden administration.