Jeff Sessions’s successor rides into the Senate leaving a cloud of controversy back in Alabama.

The 21st Century Cures Act has been lauded as a bipartisan success. It's actually the result of a long war on drug regulation.

Republicans could rein in Trump's worst excesses—but they first have to secure their regressive tax cuts and a Supreme Court nominee.

In the Obama era, Republicans nearly perfected the art of obstruction. It's an open question whether Democrats can do the same.

The fight to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court is at the center of a new, broken era of American politics.

If Democrats win the Senate and the White House, the Republicans' favorite obstructionist tool could be wiped out.

If handpicked candidates like Katie McGinty blow this chance to take back the Senate, the party will have only itself to blame.

Jason Kander's Senate campaign in Missouri hearkens back to the Democratic Party's recent past.

How the lobbyists are angling to get Evan Bayh on the Banking Committee.

Why are they rallying around a questionable policy that won’t put a dent in America’s gun-violence epidemic?