Lawmakers hope that a bipartisan measure to shore up much-needed health care provisions can make it into the still-being-negotiated omnibus spending bill.

The senator from Washington state hopes to address the urgent needs of working families—and shift perceptions of a Democratic Party that’s struggled to fulfill its promises.

This is a lesson that Democratic lawmakers learned the hard way during the Obama era, only to forget it.

A quiet split is brewing in the party: Is “better” enough, or is stretching toward a truly accessible, public program the goal? Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden have taken sides.

The right's opportunistic obsession with left-wing bias at U.S. colleges and universities threatens to destroy one of the pillars of national unity.

Paid leave should cover abused women, too.

The Democrats are forcing sexual harassers from their ranks. Why aren't Republicans doing the right thing, too?

“Undermining public education is not a choice,” Senator Patty Murray said in a speech Wednesday, railing against the education secretary's policies.

Democrats are at their most inspiring when they’re pushing actual policies. The public option is a good place to start.

The right way to fix the EITC

And the GOP doesn't know it yet