Matt Ford

@fordm

The president’s counsel will try to convince Congress to forget the months leading up to the Capitol riots.

He’s misreading the Constitution and claiming to be the real victim of the Capitol riots.

After losing both Senate seats to Democrats, the state’s GOP legislators have proposed a spate of new voter suppression laws.

The Georgia congresswoman doesn’t care about legislating anyway, so why won’t the GOP remove her from committees?

Joe Biden has the chance to curtail a corrupt practice that official Washington has long ignored.

What happens when our luck runs out?

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.

The lessons of Brexit remind us that being part of these United States is a really great deal.

The president goes out on a seamy and haphazard note, pardoning those who did crimes on his behalf.

Having given up on being a party for which a majority of Americans might vote, the GOP looks to further tilt the playing field in their favor.

Can members of Congress trust each other to keep their colleagues safe?

Having whipped its base into a violent frenzy, the GOP now wants you to believe it wants to heal the nation.

He’s an immediate threat to America, and yet Democratic leaders are showing little urgency.

If Congress doesn’t, they’ll try this again.

The Texas senator claims to be moved by the spirit of 1876, but he’s just another huckster playing a risky game with democracy.

Why are Republicans so sure the outgoing president won’t run again in 2024?

Thanks to gerrymandering, Congress’ lower chamber is a distorted representation of the American people. Here’s a remedy.

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

If Trump had been just 10 percent more competent, he might not have lost the White House.