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Harris' Attack on the Filibuster Is an Attack on the Constitutional Order Sep. 27, 2024
Though Democrats are endlessly prattling on about "norms" and "democracy," it is often unclear what ... Read More
Democrats Should Push For a Federal Abortion Rights Law Jul. 15, 2022
In the wake of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Democrats are caught up in a war ... Read More
The Filibuster Is Further Endangering Abortion Rights. It's Time to Scrap It. Jul. 01, 2022
The irony is thick: A Republican president took office despite getting fewer votes than his opponent... Read More
Manchin Says the Filibuster Can Spur Bipartisanship. If Not Now, on Guns, Then When? Jun. 02, 2022
Centrist Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona continue frustr... Read More
Will Democrats Ever Learn? Feb. 03, 2022
President Joe Biden's latest attempt to modify Senate filibuster rules is abysmal and politically na... Read More
Schumer's Ugly 'Voting Rights' Gamble Jan. 07, 2022
In a Dear Colleague letter this week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warns that if Republicans... Read More
Dems Pivot from Build Back Better to Useless Extremism Dec. 17, 2021
Unable to pass their welfare-state expansion with a simple majority, Democrats have reportedly shelv... Read More
The Tragedy of Joe Manchin in Three Acts Oct. 20, 2021
WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin gives new meaning to the old saying, "One man, one vote." The W... Read More
The Democrats' Reconciliation Bill Is Unprecedented in Every Way Oct. 01, 2021
There was a time not very long ago when political parties never would have entertained the idea of j... Read More
The Media Roots For Routing Republicans Oct. 01, 2021
President Joe Biden ran for president, in part, on the idea of being a national unifier — some... Read More
The Myth of Republican Obstructionism Jun. 18, 2021
The political media have spent the entire Joe Biden presidency up to this point pressuring holdout m... Read More
What Joe Manchin Knows That Progressives Don't Jun. 17, 2021
The 2010 Senate candidate was almost a caricature of the sort of Republican who drives Democrats cra... Read More
Joe Manchin: Racist or Profile in Courage Jun. 11, 2021
In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men with discov... Read More
The Democrats' Filibuster Con Jun. 11, 2021
When West Virginia's Joe Manchin closed the door on eliminating the legislative filibuster this week... Read More
Democrat Kabuki Jun. 04, 2021
"If you elect us, we will repeal Obamacare," Republicans claimed in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016. Each ... Read More
Democratic Showdown: Kamala vs. Manchin Jun. 04, 2021
Speaking in Tulsa on the 100th anniversary of the racial atrocity there, Joe Biden belatedly turned ... Read More
The Filibuster Fuels McConnell's Partisan Nihilism. It Should Go. May. 31, 2021
And so history repeats itself. During Barack Obama's first term as president, Mitch McConnell said b... Read More
Joe Manchin: Washington's Most Wanted Man Apr. 14, 2021
WASHINGTON — Everybody wants to know where Sen. Joe Manchin's hideaway is in the Capitol. The ... Read More
The Golden Gate Bridge for the Senate: Big Infrastructure and No Filibuster Apr. 07, 2021
Chief among words America will soon hear, over and over, are inside baseball in the Senate: "infrast... Read More
Time to Go: Protecting Voters' Rights Means Easing the Filibuster's Stranglehold Mar. 30, 2021
Folk singer Phil Ochs was biting about one state's especially noxious mistreatment of Black American... Read More
