His budget proposal to tax the wealth of America’s top plutocrats may face an uphill battle in Congress, but it signals a new midterm message.

Can Rohit Chopra revive the CFPB after Trump let it languish?

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

This is how the filibuster carve-out became the hot new thing in making up the rules as you go along.

Good question. The answer is that corporate success these days looks an awful lot like failure.

The West Virginia senator has floated means testing as a way of cutting costs, but his plan could have inadvertent negative effects.

It basically started the wave of activism that revived the left—and taught people to get serious about power.

The Massachusetts senator asks: Are we really going to tell pre-K kids that billionaires can’t afford it?

The Senate parliamentarian normally flies under the radar, but she now holds the Democrats’ ambitious plans in her hands.

A quiet split is brewing in the party: Is “better” enough, or is stretching toward a truly accessible, public program the goal? Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden have taken sides.

How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream

The Bay State’s deep-blue reputation obscures a cynical political establishment that’s more interested in accruing power than in advancing progressive policies.

Instead, it’s scheduled to gut a rule forcing companies to disclose those bribes.

Biden’s Cabinet is shaping up to be everything that Trump’s was not.

It may turn out that Donald Trump was the one force keeping the Democratic Party together.

Canceling student debt will prevent irreversible wealth loss in younger Americans. But they’re not the only ones who would benefit.

These vulture firms helped create the conditions for economic collapse. Now they’re cleaning up.

This should’ve been the perfect opportunity for Democrats to lay out their governing agenda, but it took them three days to talk about policy.

The veteran politician weighs how best to launch a presidency amid unprecedented crises.

Each of the main vice presidential contenders offers a different skill set. What Biden needs is someone to help him govern.