The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.

I am a fan of “Hillbilly Elegy”—even the movie!—but I can no longer admire the plutocratic fraud that its author has become.

With its razor-thin margins in Congress and an aging caucus, why isn’t the party acting with more urgency to protect voting rights from Republican assault?

For lawmakers who want to pay lip service to policies they don’t actually want to enact, the Senate’s Jim Crow relic provides a convenient alibi.

It’s not clear that the president even has a plan to pass the kind of legislation that would earn him comparisons to FDR.

Sure, it has its drawbacks, but forcing politicians to stand on the Senate floor for hours at a time, monologuing, might be the only way to pass desperately needed voting rights legislation.

The Republican senator, in turn, needs Alaska Natives. All new drilling policy needs to thread this needle.

Biden has only months to enact change, and his legacy will be defined by whether he saved voting rights from Republican assault.

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