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

Nobody does more to dismember the hollow mythology of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” than that body’s members.

The Senate Minority Leader’s too-clever-by-half demands may push Democrats to throw over the Jim Crow–era relic once and for all.

Why Joe Biden’s position on the issue doesn’t really matter

The West Virginia senator was cozy with Trump for political reasons. But he’s less of an obstacle to an ambitious agenda than an organized gang of Senate moderates.

Jon Ossoff’s and Raphael Warnock’s victories in Georgia have opened up a whole new world of pandemic response.

The last time Democrats controlled Washington, they blew their chance to address climate change. Will Joe Biden and Joe Manchin repeat the party’s mistakes?

The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.

If Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have the same complaint, then things must be really broken.

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.