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.

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.

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

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

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.