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.

The president has chosen time and again to ignore the obvious political moves. It’s paying off.

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

Stunts like forcing legislation to be read aloud would be trivially easy to get rid of, if anyone wanted to.

The Arizona senator is almost single-handedly keeping Democrats from wielding their majority power—and the party may well lose that power as a result.

The activists who sent Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to Washington aren’t happy with their early moves in office.

With a few notable exceptions, these lawmakers have forfeited any claim to decency or patriotism during Trump’s impeachment trial.

The party of the country club tries to embrace a new egalitarian economic agenda.

The Democratic senator has survived in West Virginia by casting himself as a champion of working people. Will his fixation on bipartisanship prevent him from living up to the role?

The conservative movement was always based on myths and deceptions. Now, it can’t tell fact from fiction.

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.

Why Joe Biden’s position on the issue doesn’t really matter

The West Virginia senator was cozy with Trump for political reasons. But he’s less of an obstacle to an ambitious agenda than an organized gang of Senate moderates.

Jon Ossoff’s and Raphael Warnock’s victories in Georgia have opened up a whole new world of pandemic response.

The last time Democrats controlled Washington, they blew their chance to address climate change. Will Joe Biden and Joe Manchin repeat the party’s mistakes?

The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.

If Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have the same complaint, then things must be really broken.