The perennial fight to raise the debt limit and avoid an economic calamity is once again on lawmakers’ docket, and this time things could get messy.

The only thing more bizarre than his “Texit” fantasy is his read of the current state of American politics.

The risk to free and fair elections has never been greater, and the GOP’s threats aren’t being met with sufficient opposition.

Maine independent Senator Angus King is leading a chorus of voices urging the president to get in the game.

The party is deadlocked on how to prune down the Biden agenda—in a way that gets them reelected.

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

We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).

America’s august legislative bodies are a simmering welter of dysfunction, and there is no end in sight.

The party has been feuding over several big bills. If they don’t pass, you can kiss Congress—and probably the White House—goodbye.

The West Virginia senator insists that work requirements be included in the bill, despite all the evidence suggesting they are unnecessary and ineffective.

Democrats scaled back their ambitions to create a measure that Republicans might support. If it fails, they’ll either have to break the filibuster—or give up.

The phenomenally effective and wildly popular program could be the centerpiece of the party’s midterm argument—if only it could agree to keep it.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would vote on a bill codifying the right to an abortion, but it will likely stall in the Senate.

A House subcommittee held a virtual hearing on the John Lewis Voting Rights Act on Monday, despite the looming prospect of death-by-filibuster.

The infrastructure bill prevailed. So will the filibuster.

Those nostalgic for the Obama years may soon get to relive the toxic brinkmanship that periodically threatened the global economy during that era.

The party has sold itself as the only thing standing in the way of the existential death of democracy. But it’s not governing as if it believes its own warnings.

The Arizona senator has offered the most illegible defense of the filibuster yet.

It starts with “F” and ends with “ilibuster.”

A novel idea for House Democrats to thwart Joe Manchin: Sue the Senate all the way to the Supreme Court.