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August 2, 2013
Nate Cohn
Ignore the Polls: McConnell Is Still the Favorite in Kentucky
July 17, 2013
Nate Cohn
Wyoming Doesn't Deserve Two Senators
July 16, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Real Reason Why Republicans Folded on the Filibuster
July 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Bring on the Nuclear Option!
July 12, 2013
Molly Redden
Why a Filibuster Rule Change Won't Turn the Senate Into the House
July 11, 2013
David Dayen
A Liberal Lion With No Roar
How the Senate has frustrated Jeff Merkley
July 9, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
There's No Cure for Marco Rubio's Abortion Anxiety
June 7, 2013
John B. Judis
The Unmagnificent Seven
Raúl Labrador has quit the House Gang of Eight. That doesn't bode well for immigration reform.
May 15, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
How Mitch McConnell Enabled Barack Obama
He's won numerous tactical victories. His legacy will be strategic defeat
April 23, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Nicest Thing You Can Say About Max Baucus
The Montana senator is everything wrong with politics—but he made ObamaCare possible
April 19, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Gun Control Failed, Not Liberalism
The real lesson Obama should learn from this week's setback
April 18, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Fatal Fatalism
Stop making excuses for senators. Start blaming them.
April 18, 2013
Jeff Connaughton
Regulatory Rockstar
Elizabeth Warren is using her Senate seat to grill those who let the big banks off the hook
April 17, 2013
Jonathan Cohn, Eric Kingsbury
The Angriest Obama We've Ever Seen
After the Senate failed to expand gun background checks, the president flashes anger
April 16, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Did Our Founders' Lack of Foresight Doom Gun Control?
The tyranny of small states in the undemocratic Senate
March 22, 2013
Timothy Noah
Political Science in the Crosshairs
Republicans defund academic studies whose lessons they don't want to learn
March 19, 2013
Timothy Noah
Harry Reid Reaps What He Sowed
The failure to reform the filibuster is already taking a toll
March 7, 2013
Adam Winkler
Is the Filibuster Unconstitutional?
The Founding Fathers might not approve of today's Senate
February 27, 2013
Eliza Gray
The Cheney Renaissance Starts in Wyoming
Dick's daughter Liz could be getting ready for a Senate run
February 21, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Washington Is Wrong About Cruz and Warren
The freshmen senators are exactly who they promised to be

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