Several important bills could be combined during this lame-duck session—before Republicans take over and you-know-who might become president again.

With the party likely to cede the House—if not the Senate—to the GOP, meaningful steps to limit some of the executive branch’s power must be taken during the lame-duck session.

The not-funny names that lawmakers invent to sell their policy ideas are evidence of a legislative body in deep decline.

Everything you think you know about how our democracy functions is about to change.

In his first 100 days, the president still hasn’t cleared his predecessor’s cronies out of the executive branch, where they’re free to sabotage his presidency.

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.

Nobody does more to dismember the hollow mythology of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” than that body’s members.

Biden’s election can be more than a repudiation of Trumpian misrule. It can reject Ronald Reagan’s cynicism, as well.

If Ted Cruz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have the same complaint, then things must be really broken.

He’s threatened to jam Washington’s revolving door, and the influence-peddlers are in hysterics.

There’s no reason why a rigged Supreme Court should have the final say on the law of our land.

The powers of the executive branch need to be downsized, and only one party seems willing to do it.

The world’s greatest deliberative body has seen better days, but the Nebraska senator’s solutions will only continue its downward spiral.

It’s useless to convince him to adopt progressive policies if he won’t agree to structural reforms.