Politicians love to bluster about saving “our democracy”—without acknowledging all the ways it’s broken.

The Republican senator profited from a pandemic while millions of Americans lost their jobs.

The longtime senator is in the electoral battle of her life. But it’s not only her legacy that’s at stake.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

Why Arizona may be sending two Democrats to the Senate for the first time in 70 years

A small universe of activists have no intention of letting Biden’s affection for Senate norms capsize his agenda.

Neither precedent nor principle, nor even electoral consequences, will sway him from his ultimate goal.

Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign may be an object lesson in what it takes for a woman to win in today’s GOP.

Can the political scion secure a place in Washington’s firmament before his last name becomes obsolete?

Millionaires in Congress have long since lost touch with most constituents’ concerns.

There has been a profound disconnect between the hagiography surrounding his death and the response to the radicalism he helped inspire.

If he leads a Democratic wave in 2020, he’ll have to choose: Give representation to 700,000 people or preserve the filibuster.

He still supports Trump and worships campaign donors. It may cost Republicans their Senate majority.

They think she’ll be easier to beat in the general election—and some Democrats agree. New research suggests otherwise.

Republican lawmakers, blanching at the prospect of removing the president from power, remove themselves instead.

Impeachment will be a test of whether the world's greatest deliberative body still exists in a moral universe.

The former vice president is a dealmaker, not a deep thinker.

Their radically different approaches to the filibuster prove that the two candidates are different sorts of radicals.

It will take more than a few charismatic candidates for Democrats to regain and maintain control of national politics.

The Speaker's feud with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals a great deal about her approach to leadership.