Congress remains locked in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. While headlines understandably focus on safety-net and healthcare talks, a broader institutional danger looms: elimination ...

In some mythical future when Dems regain a majority in the Senate, they might well scrap the filibuster. But for now, it’s ...

Horse trainer and Democrat Dale Romans has announced his candidacy for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat. He’s facing a crowded ...

Instead of caving on the shutdown, Democrats should have waited for the GOP to cave on Trump’s demand to scotch this antidemocratic tactic.

In 1917, the Senate adopted a rule to invoke cloture, or limit debate. That required a two-thirds vote. In 1975, the Senate change the rule to lower the margin needed to invoke cloture to three-fifths ...

A proposed hemp ban that threatens to end the sale of scores of popular THC gummies, vapes and even beverages is tucked into ...

AT sunrise on November 4, 2025, President Donald J. Trump opened Truth Social with a post that read less like a rant and more like a directive. In the all-caps urgency that defines his digital cadence ...

Whether he secretly encouraged the deal to end the shutdown or was too weak to stop it, he needs to take the fall to keep ...

The "Schumer Shutdown" ends as Senate Democrats face political fallout. Chuck Schumer's strategy backfires ahead of potential ...

Saying that he could not justify “playing with other people’s lives” as millions of Americans went without their paychecks ...

Can’t live with it, can’t burn it down (or so my lawyers caution me). Recently, I’ve had cause to ruminate on the upper house’s continued existence and the way its workings threaten our own. And then, ...