A recent poll shows the Texas Democrat only 5 percent behind the lightning-rod GOP incumbent. Here’s how he might pull off the cycle’s biggest upset.

You’d think the connection between the weather and climate change would be obvious. But you haven’t discussed the matter with Republicans in Congress.

PLUS: Why Jamie Raskin isn’t running for the Senate

Texas Representative Chip Roy led the right-wing opposition to the debt deal. He lost big time. But it will hardly matter.

Maybe it’s time to stop making fun of the Texas senator and start taking him seriously.

It’s amateur hour as Trump’s two big rivals follow the same bad strategy as the last batch of Republican presidential primary losers.

Conservatives are up in arms that the high court has become embroiled in a legitimacy crisis.

Do they even realize the contradiction at the heart of their candidacies?

Spoiler alert: It (almost definitely) won’t work.

They insist they see a distinction between the -ism and the human beings. But the legislative attack on trans rights continues apace.

The Texas senator was unique among Republicans in his kinder and gentler response to John Fetterman’s mental health struggles. If only he could be consistent!

Georgia’s Richard Russell was an unrepentant racist. You’d think a name change would be a no-brainer. And yet...

Donald Trump is weak! That may be good for him.

He didn’t give rail workers paid leave in legislation. But he can still do it through an executive order.

Most of them have worse AFL-CIO lifetime scores than their GOP colleagues.

Latinos are said to be leaning Republican since 2020. That’s overstating it, but Latino voters are getting swingier.

A rather odd plaintiff—with some convoluted legal arguments—has emerged to sue the administration over its loan forgiveness proposal.

Amid a rising right-wing tide of threats, recent incidents have sadly not been out of the norm.

They have a charismatic young candidate and are facing the worst the GOP has to offer. Why isn’t the party doing more to win?

The Texas senator’s recent complaint about the Inflation Reduction Act accidentally told the truth about the court’s war against the administrative state.