The side deal that Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin cut to pass the Inflation Reduction Act now threatens to be the proximate cause of a government shutdown.

The scandal-scarred former governor has dropped precipitously in the polls in his Senate run—and that probably dims the Democrats’ chances.

The climate is too far gone for Joe Manchin’s “compromises”—all of which seem to include handouts to fossil fuel companies.

The upper body of Congress has become a colossal wreck where democracy goes to die.

Richard Russell was a segregationist and a fervent opponent of civil rights. So why does his name still adorn the Russell Senate Office Building?

Stunts like forcing legislation to be read aloud would be trivially easy to get rid of, if anyone wanted to.

It’s great news that Biden and Democrats in Congress are going it alone on economic relief. Somehow, fewer Americans might get stimulus checks anyway.

How to make the Senate functional without forcing Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to go back on their word

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

The world’s greatest deliberative body has seen better days, but the Nebraska senator’s solutions will only continue its downward spiral.

Legislators have fled Washington and won’t meet again until May—a colossal, bipartisan failure of leadership in a time of crisis.

'Confirmation' is a political procedural that traces the injustice done to Anita Hill at Clarence Thomas's 1991 Senate hearing.