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November 15, 2025
Jason Linkins
There Are Two U.S. Senates—and Only One Knows How to Get What It Wants
While Republicans in the upper house advance agendas and build their base, their Democratic counterparts are mostly bystanders to their own demise.
February 19, 2025
Edith Olmsted
GOP Senators Are Having to Literally Beg Trump for Their Own Money
Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s spending freeze has sent Republicans scrambling.
February 12, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Mitch McConnell Explains His Sad Lone “No” Vote on Tulsi Gabbard
The former Senate majority leader couldn’t get a single Republican to vote with him against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence.
January 27, 2025
Hafiz Rashid
Tulsi Gabbard’s Chances of Confirmation Are Plummeting
Republicans are sending signals that they might not back Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence.
January 27, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Even Lindsey Graham Knows Trump’s Friday Night Purge Was Illegal
The South Carolina senator admitted that Donald Trump broke the law with his mass firing of inspectors general.
September 13, 2023
Grace Segers
Senate Republicans Haven’t Caught Impeachment Mania—Yet
Conservatives in the upper chamber aren’t quite as rabid about ousting the president as their counterparts in the House, but it could become their problem soon enough.
November 15, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Trump Is Announcing Tonight. And No, Not All Republicans Are Aghast.
Murdochland and establishment conservatives are insisting the romance is over. It’s not likely to be that easy.
May 19, 2022
Timothy Noah
Senate Republicans Want Your Cleaning Lady to Pay Income Tax, but Not FedEx
Dwindling revenues from corporate taxes are beggaring the Treasury, and the GOP doesn’t care.
June 20, 2019
Magazine
Alex Pareene
Give War a Chance
In search of the Democratic Party's fighting spirit
June 11, 2019
Alex Shephard
Corruption Is the Tie that Binds for Trump-Era Republicans
Though they threaten defections over personnel and policy, members of the president's party are truer than ever to the man.
March 21, 2019
Magazine
Alex Pareene
Nihilist in Chief
The banal, evil, all-destructive reign of Mitch McConnell
September 21, 2017
Clio Chang
Lindsey Graham Is the Biggest Fraud in the Senate
The architect of a draconian Obamacare repeal bill is proof that there are no more Republican moderates.
September 20, 2017
Clio Chang
Republicans don’t know and don’t care what they’re about to do to the health care system.
July 25, 2017
Clio Chang
The John McCain brain tumor drama is everything that’s wrong with the GOP’s insane health care push.
July 21, 2017
Clio Chang
Republicans know we’re in a crisis. They just don’t care.
June 15, 2017
Clio Chang
The GOP’s secret health care bill is going to get us all.
July 15, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Will someone please direct Senator Thom Tillis to Article 2, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution?
November 6, 2015
Rebecca Leber
Kelly Ayotte and the Rise of Openly Green Republicans
December 8, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Senate Should Cancel Its Own Christmas and Stay in Session Until 2015
May 27, 2014
Danny Vinik
Senate Republicans Want the GOP to Make All Sorts of Promises It Can't Keep
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