Some Democratic senators’ constituents have other priorities.

Eyes turn to the Senate majority leader as more than a dozen Democrats call for the embattled New Jersey senator’s ouster.

Census data showed a dramatic increase in child poverty from 2021 to 2022, due in part to the expiration of the expanded credit.

A Republican House and Democratic Senate could complicate negotiations, but some still hope for a revival of talks two years after the last failed effort.

As a policy, the 2021 expansion was historically successful, cutting child poverty nearly in half. But it died by politics this year. Can it be revived in 2023?

The president may be polling terribly, but the party’s struggle to find fresh blood is as big a concern.

Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.

The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.

Hate crimes of all kinds, and against all kinds of people, are still far too prevalent in American society. And they are massively underreported.

Vladimir Putin has driven Republicans and Democrats into one another’s arms.

Democratic lawmakers will return from the holidays with a long list of uncompleted chores and unresolved issues.

The Build Back Better Act includes a one-year extension of the child tax credit, but the clock is ticking.

The idea could be met with pushback from Democrats hoping to extend the credit permanently or through 2025.

The junior senator from New Jersey continues to believe in the power of interpersonal relationships in effecting policy.

The proposal would help close the racial wealth gap by giving every child in America up to $2,000 annually in a savings account.

Biden’s attorney general is neither an ideologue nor a partisan, but a consensus-builder. How will he wield his power in this historic, politically charged moment?

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How endorsements have hardened the primary’s left-moderate binary

How the don't-blame-me Democratic chair mucked up the debates

The rhetorical obsession with single mothers obscures the root cause of racial inequality.