How the Senate has frustrated Jeff Merkley

Raúl Labrador has quit the House Gang of Eight. That doesn't bode well for immigration reform.

He's won numerous tactical victories. His legacy will be strategic defeat

The Montana senator is everything wrong with politics—but he made ObamaCare possible

The real lesson Obama should learn from this week's setback

Stop making excuses for senators. Start blaming them.

Elizabeth Warren is using her Senate seat to grill those who let the big banks off the hook

After the Senate failed to expand gun background checks, the president flashes anger

The tyranny of small states in the undemocratic Senate

Republicans defund academic studies whose lessons they don't want to learn

The failure to reform the filibuster is already taking a toll

The Founding Fathers might not approve of today's Senate

Dick's daughter Liz could be getting ready for a Senate run

The freshmen senators are exactly who they promised to be

She's a Hollywood feminist, but also a Southern sweetheart. Mock her at your own risk, Mitch.

The blue state Tea Party was short—and traumatic

Obama's Defense pick barely survives his Senate grilling