The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.

Lawmakers in the upper chamber deserve blame for their failure to staff the State Department ahead of the unfolding crisis in Kabul.

Between budget reconciliation, infrastructure, and the debt ceiling, lawmakers have their work cut out for them.

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and others have called on Congress to pass the John Lewis Act, but for years they’ve pumped money to the man dedicated to blocking the bill.

The Democrats somehow convinced enough Republican senators to support a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. Now they have to go to war to pass a $3.5 trillion reconciliation package.

The proposal would help close the racial wealth gap by giving every child in America up to $2,000 annually in a savings account.

Those nostalgic for the Obama years may soon get to relive the toxic brinkmanship that periodically threatened the global economy during that era.

The incredibly true story of how a BIF could become a BIB—which would be a BFD, indeed.

Peter DeFazio, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is frustrated by the way the Senate has warped his original bill.

Just when you thought the United States Senate couldn’t get any worse....

Should Biden get his infrastructure deal, it will be a rare defeat for the Senate’s master of nihilism.

The Arizona senator has offered the most illegible defense of the filibuster yet.

A novel idea for House Democrats to thwart Joe Manchin: Sue the Senate all the way to the Supreme Court.

Why is the Democratic senator from West Virginia echoing Republican talking points about American elections?

The U.S. Senate is incapable of policing itself—and the two Republicans are too shameless to resign.

The upper body of Congress has become a colossal wreck where democracy goes to die.

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.