This year isn’t ending the way Democrats had hoped. But there’s a way the president can transform Americans’ lives without Congress’s help: bust up monopolies.

The Build Back Better Act was probably the last best chance for immigration reform for a long time. And even that didn’t offer much.

The first year of Biden’s presidency began with ambitious plans, and it’s ending with a whimper. Here’s what to expect—and hope for—in 2022.

Democrats may whittle down Biden’s social spending bill to win the West Virginia senator’s support.

Democrats from the president on down are furious at the senator. Unfortunately, though, they still need his vote, and they know it.

The senator says he’s a “no” on Biden’s Build Back Better Act, ensuring that the struggling people of his state fall further behind.

The West Virginia senator said on Sunday that he “cannot vote” for the current version of the social spending bill.

The Black Lung Disability Trust Fund is in danger of insolvency, which could affect industry veterans stricken with the disease.

The West Virginia senator has put one of the most effective policy proposals in the Build Back Better Act—and millions of kids—at risk.

The party may put Biden’s spending bill on the back burner and yank voting rights to the front of the line.

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

The press has relentlessly debated the costs of the Build Back Better Act. But the Defense Department is getting $768 billion for Christmas with nary a peep.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

The majority leader is spearheading an effort to somehow pass voting rights legislation without destroying the filibuster—and do it by year’s end.

The question driving Vermont’s lone congressman to run for retiring Senator Patrick Leahy’s seat: “Are we going to defend democracy?”

The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

The party’s elites and activists are more progressive than its base. Here’s how to close that gap.

A negative score from Washington’s budget metaphysicians could have killed the Build Back Better Act. But when a positive one came in, barely anyone noticed.

The Build Back Better bill is on its way to the Senate, where Joe Manchin awaits.

There’s frustration among the state party’s rank and file, but only a few officials are willing to express it publicly.