With the pandemic raging and millions still out of work, there is a case for moving swiftly to pass an imperfect stimulus bill.

How to make the Senate functional without forcing Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to go back on their word

Nobody does more to dismember the hollow mythology of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” than that body’s members.

The Senate Minority Leader’s too-clever-by-half demands may push Democrats to throw over the Jim Crow–era relic once and for all.

His message of unity has broad appeal in a shattered country. But does Mitch McConnell care?

Even if the Senate votes to convict the president, it would come at a cost.

The Trump era ends with a bang, not a whimper, revealing a misplaced faith in our elected officials to protect the democratic project.

Centrist senators like Joe Manchin and Jon Tester will decide the fate of the party’s more ambitious legislative goals.

The Republican Party is in disarray.

The Senate majority leader is poisoning a bipartisan effort to increase stimulus checks to $2,000—and foreshadowing his tactics under a Biden administration.

How the president-elect should deal with Trump’s Republican enablers

America needed a bigger boat. The latest stimulus package tosses a pair of arm floaties.

A weeklong phony outrage cycle offers a glimpse of a very annoying future.

How can you tell that the GOP has accepted Biden is the duly elected president? They’re trying to destroy the economy.

The media keeps asking when the GOP will acknowledge that Joe Biden won a fair election. It ain’t happening.

Senate Republicans think they might get their colleagues across the aisle to cave on a liability shield. They may be right.

A theater of compromise on Capitol Hill is sabotaging the hopes of saving ordinary Americans from the pandemic’s economic ravages.

Biden’s Cabinet is shaping up to be everything that Trump’s was not.

The former president seems unable to reckon with the failures of his presidency and diagnose the Republican Party’s incurable nihilism.

The president-elect might be willing to compromise with Mitch McConnell on his Cabinet picks. Can liberals force him to play hardball?