Why is Tom Cotton the loudest member of Congress speaking about human rights abuses in Iran right now?

Yes, Build Back Better eventually became Build Back Manchin, but for Democrats, it’s better than nothing.

It’s probably already too late to save American democracy. Here is the series of improbable events doing so would require.

The staffer behind the social media account talks about the organizing drive, which will start to get real results next week.

The party is spending big to help some of the most extremist candidates in the country win their GOP primaries. It’s a mistake.

With poll numbers growing more dire by the day, the party needs to shake off its torpor and remind people what it stands for.

The party needs to decide what it cares about more: its Beltway friends or reproductive rights.

A San Francisco Chronicle report on her mental state is devastating and undeniable. DiFi, don’t be the Democrats’ Strom Thurmond.

But Wisconsin’s lower house speaker wasn’t buying it. And a Roger Stone aide makes a (not-so) cryptic comment.

Despite conventional wisdom, the party is not doomed in November’s midterm elections. The economy, Covid-19, the invasion of Ukraine, and the January 6 insurrection are all wild cards.

Blue states like New York and California want to restore the unlimited state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. Biden’s DOJ is trying to preserve the $10,000 limit—even though Trump enacted it to punish Democrats.

His budget proposal to tax the wealth of America’s top plutocrats may face an uphill battle in Congress, but it signals a new midterm message.

A provision offering an additional $15 billion in pandemic aid fell out of an omnibus package last week, and Congress might not be able to pass a stand-alone bill.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are teeming with ideas to halt the practice of self-enrichment. Which one will they choose?

The House passed the China competitiveness bill, which includes funding to shore up faltering supply chains.

Police unions, the retail lobby, and other critics of criminal justice reform have seized on viral images of package theft and shoplifting to push for a rollback of California’s efforts to reduce its prison population.

Senator Jon Ossoff is leading a push to ban lawmakers from playing the stock market.

Biden is hoping that some sizable portion of his social spending bill might yet make it to his desk.

The House Democratic Caucus is often accused of being a quarrelsome bunch. But is this just what politics looks like?

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