Subsidizing stopgap insurance may enrich providers, but it's not a solution for this crisis. I know because I’m on it.

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.

“We are who we are because of the people who raised us,” said Deb Haaland, one of two Native women in Congress.

The “emergency” fixes being introduced in response to the coronavirus are just a properly functioning welfare state.

Once again, the New Mexico representative was a lonely voice on a hearing about Indigenous rights and the desecration of sacred sites on the border.

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

Lawmakers will punt on crucial consumer protections against shock-and-awe hospital bills, while further eroding the Affordable Care Act.

A third of the Indigenous languages used in America two decades ago have gone extinct, and Congress isn't doing enough to preserve what remains.

A bill to combat the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women crisis was sidetracked by Republicans griping about tribal sovereignty.

The night I partied with the now-disgraced congressman, I learned brazenness and entitlement might have been his best qualities.

The Democrats put on a spectacle that may have ended up underscoring the waning power of the meritocracy.

Oil industry greed, Trump officials' anti-environmental extremism, and long-ignored Indigenous issues are coming together in one valiant uphill battle.

As America's longest war drags on, some Beltway denizens argue that it can be sustained for decades more.

The largest Native nation to share borders with the United States is finally claiming its right to representation.

Banned by Israel and demonized by Trump, she's been fighting business as usual in Congress' hidebound foreign policy club.