Osita Nwanevu

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Josh Hawley and J.D. Vance are pushing a tax credit for parents. They’re being drowned out by the party’s infighting and regressive legislation against protesters and trans people.

The debate over the territory’s status isn’t just dividing Washington. It’s dividing the island’s residents, too.

For lawmakers who want to pay lip service to policies they don’t actually want to enact, the Senate’s Jim Crow relic provides a convenient alibi.

Right-wing populists are declaring war on “woke” corporations, but in the end, these alleged foes all want the same thing: GOP rule.

It’s not clear that the president even has a plan to pass the kind of legislation that would earn him comparisons to FDR.

The Democrats’ next big spending plan should include money to rebuild America’s ever-widening news deserts.

Democrats will either make a grand bargain with Republicans or go it alone. Either way, a long-running joke in Washington may finally die.

Biden has only months to enact change, and his legacy will be defined by whether he saved voting rights from Republican assault.

The only thing that will save the GOP’s preferred procedural weapon is the charity—or the naïveté—of Democrats.

The paper of record is only now realizing that the governor it glorified for the past year may not be not fit to serve.

Verizon and AT&T hold the keys to the internet for millions of Americans—and have enough power, online and off, to be just as worthy of scrutiny as the social media giants.

Even as the president signs the American Rescue Plan Act into law, skittish Beltway moderates are already worried that he might want to do more.

Is the West Virginia lawmaker peddling false hope by suggesting he’s open to filibuster reform?

The failure to pass a background checks bill exposes just how little bipartisanship matters.

At CPAC, the ex-president showed he has no intention of quitting the GOP. But are party insiders and conservative activists equally committed?

Not Republicans. Not the Senate parliamentarian. Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and even Joe Biden are to blame for squandering their party’s majority power.

The battle for reform offers the new administration a chance to exorcise Trumpism and prove it has agenda-setting grit.

It was a foregone conclusion that the former president wouldn’t be convicted—and the mainstream press is finally reaching a consensus about why.

The activists who sent Mark Kelly and Kyrsten Sinema to Washington aren’t happy with their early moves in office.

Their belief that this surreal conspiracy has arisen because of the poor education of its adherents is based in classism, not reality.