It’s still an illegitimate power grab, even if Republican operatives are only doing it to protect Trump’s fragile ego.

Why the Republican Party’s “performance art” excuse for undermining the election rings hollow

The Republicans’ retreat from the president isn’t happening for the right reasons. But it is happening.

They’re more likely to take the wrong lessons from Biden’s win and the down-ballot losses.

Liberals lined the campaigns of Senate hopefuls with mountainous piles of campaign loot, only to watch it all burn up on election night.

Fiscally reckless GOP leaders are already laying the groundwork to attack spending under a Democratic administration.

The drawn-out stimulus negotiations, which have left the public hanging out to dry, represent the worst of our political system.

The longtime senator is in the electoral battle of her life. But it’s not only her legacy that’s at stake.

Saving unemployment benefits isn’t worth it if we have to sell out frontline workers.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

After this week, they’ll never be able to wage the same old polite judicial war with Republicans again.

If you think something like a deadly pandemic is going to thwart the GOP’s quest for permanent and total judicial power, think again.

The Beltway press was quick to publicize apparent rebukes of the president’s remarks—all while the GOP prepares to challenge an unfavorable result in the November election.

Neither precedent nor principle, nor even electoral consequences, will sway him from his ultimate goal.

There is a way out of the looming partisan arms race that threatens to unravel the nation.

Their leaders’ timidity has failed to limit Republican extremism. So it will cost them nothing to fight tooth and nail against McConnell’s latest plot.

The Democrats prefer to whine about Republican extremism rather than retaliate. If the party wins in November, nothing less than absolute ruthlessness will do.

Its obviousness shows Republicans no longer even try to persuade.

They should be able to delay until after the election—and if they take back the Senate in November, McConnell may not be able to get anyone confirmed.

The Supreme Court justice was both an icon and a symbol of modern liberalism’s flawed approach to accruing power.