The longtime senator is in the electoral battle of her life. But it’s not only her legacy that’s at stake.

Saving unemployment benefits isn’t worth it if we have to sell out frontline workers.

Beyond packing schemes, we need to diminish the high court’s power.

After this week, they’ll never be able to wage the same old polite judicial war with Republicans again.

If you think something like a deadly pandemic is going to thwart the GOP’s quest for permanent and total judicial power, think again.

The Beltway press was quick to publicize apparent rebukes of the president’s remarks—all while the GOP prepares to challenge an unfavorable result in the November election.

Neither precedent nor principle, nor even electoral consequences, will sway him from his ultimate goal.

There is a way out of the looming partisan arms race that threatens to unravel the nation.

Their leaders’ timidity has failed to limit Republican extremism. So it will cost them nothing to fight tooth and nail against McConnell’s latest plot.

The Democrats prefer to whine about Republican extremism rather than retaliate. If the party wins in November, nothing less than absolute ruthlessness will do.

Its obviousness shows Republicans no longer even try to persuade.

They should be able to delay until after the election—and if they take back the Senate in November, McConnell may not be able to get anyone confirmed.

The Supreme Court justice was both an icon and a symbol of modern liberalism’s flawed approach to accruing power.

Pundits and think tanks seem to love it, but it’s a meaningless phrase in the modern Republican Party.

Republicans have erected a conservative fortress in the federal judiciary. Our founding documents provide the means to knock it down.

Too bad they don’t see similar urgency in the millions of unemployed Americans who face another week without $600 in assistance.

The veteran politician weighs how best to launch a presidency amid unprecedented crises.

The president and the Senate majority leader weren't even in the room for the failed negotiations to save the economy.

The GOP is mostly insulated from the consequences that voters might be inclined to dole out in November.

This week’s job numbers demonstrate that this is no time to compromise with Mitch McConnell.