The Inflation Reduction Act doesn’t curb fossil fuels. In fact, it boosts them.

While the bill will fall short of the Biden administration’s ambitious climate goals, the fact that it will include climate provisions of any kind is an unexpected surprise.

The ruling party was set to be slaughtered in the 2022 midterm elections—then the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and Senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin struck a deal.

Embracing the Senate minority leader’s bare knuckle tactics gets results.

Contrary to the narrative you’ll read in some newspapers, climate policy polls very, very well.

The Democrats finally have wind in their sails. The Arizona senator can halt the party’s progress with a statement.

“It’s not ideal, but it’s how the sausage gets made, right? I try not to go to the sausage factory.”

The West Virginia senator shut down talk of extending the expanded credit in the reconciliation bill, but some in Congress see hope in future negotiations over a tax package.

West Virginians don’t waste much time worrying that corporations pay too much in taxes. Why does Joe?

Joe Manchin’s ability to sink climate legislation is getting less attention than the January 6 hearings. But it’s just as dire a sign for democracy.

In a just world, Democrats would be able to oust Manchin from the party leadership role, as happened to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Why do Charlie Brown and Democrats keep falling for it every time they pull the football away?

“Direct pay” would make more efficient use of public money and speed up renewable energy investment. But Manchin doesn’t want that.

Plenty has been out of his control. But the president has bungled a few things along the way.

Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.

As the midterms loom, the recipients of the now-expired benefit are turning against Democrats.

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

Legislative battles are fronts in a larger—and winnable—ideological war.

The poorest Americans are feeling the biggest squeeze from rising prices. Alas, Congress allowed a program that might have helped them to expire last year.

In an interview with The New Republic, the Ohio Democrat was keen to remind: “Fifty Republicans voted against the child tax credit twice.”