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 allegations of forced hysterectomies of detainees don’t just demand an investigation, but a new law to empower politicians to act themselves."

Too bad they don’t see similar urgency in the millions of unemployed Americans who face another week without $600 in assistance.

The president and the Senate majority leader weren't even in the room for the failed negotiations to save the economy.

Five million have lost coverage amid the pandemic—a number that’s expected to triple by year’s end. But the party leadership isn’t reacting as though it’s a crisis.

An abolitionist demand rose to mainstream prominence. Now every politician and cable news talking head is suddenly an expert.

In a global health crisis, political déjà vu becomes deadlier.

America may emerge from the coronavirus pandemic straight into a hot war over the future of the economy.

Our civic life has become a vast desert, devoid of nerve or imagination, and it’s slowly killing us.

Legislators have fled Washington and won’t meet again until May—a colossal, bipartisan failure of leadership in a time of crisis.

Congress needs to get serious about ramping up widespread testing if it wants to prevent a brutal downturn.

The party chose a caretaker to look after a burning house.

The White House’s coronavirus response is a screwup for the ages. Here’s how to hold the president accountable.

The now and future dead deserve some attempt at justice.

The Republicans are confronting the coronavirus with nihilism—and the Democrats are responding with impotence.

Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders have been outflanked by opponents embracing big spending ideas to address the coronavirus recession.

With impeachment behind him, Trump is already steering his cruel reign in a darker direction.

Congress has funneled billions of dollars to the White House's anti-immigration enforcement arms. Here's how that money has been spent.

Not according to Nancy Pelosi. But don't be so sure.

House leadership included the measure in a government funding bill—and even members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus went along with it.