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Filibuster
January 15, 2014
Adrian Vermeule
The Filibuster Does Not Protect Minority Interests
And other reasons to reject supermajority requirements
November 22, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
GOP: Ending Filibusters Is Unconstitutional and Un-American—and We'll Do it, Too
November 22, 2013
Kevin Mahnken
Democrats Will Pay for Nuking the Filibuster. But They Would Have Paid, Anyway.
November 22, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Nuking the Filibuster Is Great. Sanctimonious Beltway Types Just Won't Admit It.
August 6, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Harry Reid Should Kill the Filibuster, for Real This Time
Democrats have all the leverage. Why won't they use it?
July 22, 2013
Molly Redden
Kentucky Might Finally Turn on Mitch McConnell
July 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Winners—and One Big Loser—of the Filibuster Fight
July 16, 2013
Alec MacGillis
The Real Reason Why Republicans Folded on the Filibuster
July 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
Bring on the Nuclear Option!
July 16, 2013
Molly Redden
Lamar Alexander's Agenda for a Filibuster-Free Senate
July 15, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Nuclear War
Why filibuster reform matters
July 12, 2013
Molly Redden
Why a Filibuster Rule Change Won't Turn the Senate Into the House
July 11, 2013
David Dayen
A Liberal Lion With No Roar
How the Senate has frustrated Jeff Merkley
March 7, 2013
Adam Winkler
Is the Filibuster Unconstitutional?
The Founding Fathers might not approve of today's Senate
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