In order to avert a catastrophe for democracy, the party must get over its Joe Manchin problem ahead of the 2022 midterms.

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

Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but the dysfunction that drives this perennial crisis remains intact.

It’s called the Congressional Review Act, and it helps the party that has no legislative agenda and just wants to undo stuff. It has to go.

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

Mitch McConnell says the GOP won’t have a legislative agenda for the 2022 midterms, and it’s no wonder: What few ideas the party has are deeply unpopular.

Reproductive rights in America have been brought to the brink thanks to decades of lies and complacency.

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.

Republicans in Washington had hoped the popular New Hampshire governor could be convinced to leave his cool job and join them in the abject misery of their day-to-day existence.

A TNR readers’ poll

They really think this is a campaign issue for Republicans? Has any candidate—even one—ever lost an election because he voted to raise the debt limit?

The Arizona senator wants to cut funding for climate-change policies and opposes a plan to rein in prescription drug prices. She doesn’t deserve the Democratic Party.

Leave it to Democrats to win a big political fight and then act as though they lost.

The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.

We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).

The Senate minority leader is happy to risk economic collapse if it helps the GOP in the midterm elections.

The House’s budget chief on reconciliation, the debt ceiling, and herding cats: “I’m trying not to play Joe Manchin.”

The party will try to fund the government, raise the debt ceiling, and pass an infrastructure deal before the end of the month. No big deal!

When Republicans say they won’t vote to prevent default, Democrats had best believe them.

Democrats scaled back their ambitions to create a measure that Republicans might support. If it fails, they’ll either have to break the filibuster—or give up.