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

The Senate Minority Leader’s too-clever-by-half demands may push Democrats to throw over the Jim Crow–era relic once and for all.

Why Joe Biden’s position on the issue doesn’t really matter

The West Virginia senator was cozy with Trump for political reasons. But he’s less of an obstacle to an ambitious agenda than an organized gang of Senate moderates.

Jon Ossoff’s and Raphael Warnock’s victories in Georgia have opened up a whole new world of pandemic response.

The last time Democrats controlled Washington, they blew their chance to address climate change. Will Joe Biden and Joe Manchin repeat the party’s mistakes?

The two candidates hope to be Georgia’s first Jewish senator and Black senator, respectively—a reckoning that has been decades in the making.

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

Politicians love to bluster about saving “our democracy”—without acknowledging all the ways it’s broken.

The Republican senator profited from a pandemic while millions of Americans lost their jobs.

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

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

Why Arizona may be sending two Democrats to the Senate for the first time in 70 years

A small universe of activists have no intention of letting Biden’s affection for Senate norms capsize his agenda.

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

Joni Ernst’s reelection campaign may be an object lesson in what it takes for a woman to win in today’s GOP.

Can the political scion secure a place in Washington’s firmament before his last name becomes obsolete?

Millionaires in Congress have long since lost touch with most constituents’ concerns.

There has been a profound disconnect between the hagiography surrounding his death and the response to the radicalism he helped inspire.

If he leads a Democratic wave in 2020, he’ll have to choose: Give representation to 700,000 people or preserve the filibuster.