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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
February 15, 2013
Molly Redden
Ashley Judd's Arsenal
She's a Hollywood feminist, but also a Southern sweetheart. Mock her at your own risk, Mitch.
February 12, 2013
Ken Silverstein, Brooke Williams
Chuck Hagel's Think Tank, Its Donors, and Intellectual Independence
February 1, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Goodbye to the Scott Brown Era
The blue state Tea Party was short—and traumatic
February 1, 2013
John B. Judis
Hagel's Hell
Obama's Defense pick barely survives his Senate grilling
January 24, 2013
Timothy Noah
Filibuster Reform Squelched
The real deal struck about reform: There would be none.
January 22, 2013
Linda Hirshman
Roe v. Wade Is More Popular Than Ever—A Fact the Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Ignore
January 22, 2013
Timothy Noah
The Filibuster and "The Fermata"
January 21, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Obama Was Always a Liberal, But Now He's Defending Liberalism

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