What is your personal Mountain Valley Pipeline? What would it be like to force your co-workers to pretend it’s a good idea?

Party leaders thought they had set a trap for Republicans. It hasn’t worked out that way at all.

The senators are aiming to extend the pandemic-era asylum policy to give lawmakers the time to write bipartisan immigration reform legislation.

They might not fully appreciate what House Speaker Kevin McCarthy would be willing to do to keep his speakership.

Two new magazine profiles attempt to explain the Arizona senator. Here’s our own theory.

The Democrats control the Senate. This shouldn’t be happening.

The centrist Democratic group forms a united front with its more liberal counterparts to trash a third-party candidacy that could elect Trump.

The Inflation Reduction Act aims to incentivize purchase of E.V.s and secure the U.S. supply chain at the same time. Now lawmakers must disentangle the conflicts that stand in the way.

A video obtained by TNR tries to suggest that both parties are being captured by extremes—but somehow forgets to acknowledge the sitting president.

A roundup of ideas for how to break fossil fuels’ hold over the country’s dysfunctional political system

Hint: It’s not because of rip-offs or abuses. Those, they’re fine with.

No one is coming for your gas stove, Manchin.

The Democratic senator claims to be worried about electric vehicles relying on foreign lithium. The best way to fix that would be walkable cities and great public transit.

The two Democratic senators have expressed support for Sinema, who switched her party to independent, over Ruben Gallego, who is running as a Democrat.

From atop the mountains of Davos, the West Virginia senator has brought down his next big idea: Bring back the supercommittee!

The two senators, who have blocked bill after bill, high-fived at a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in 2022.

The West Virginia senator isn’t saying he’ll copy Kyrsten Sinema and switch to independent, but he isn’t shutting down the idea either.

Senator Joe Manchin isn’t giving up on his fight for permitting reform, even after it was removed from the annual defense spending bill.