Conservative Democrats pit vulnerable communities against each other, as usual

A handful of conservative Democrats in the House and two in the Senate are refusing to sign off on an annual $350 billion boost to social spending to...

Surprise: Biden's Federalist Society-loaded commission concludes there's no Supreme Court problem

The “blue ribbon” commission appointed by President Joe Biden to study the problem of Republican court packing, particularly at the U.S. Supreme...

America to conservative Democrats: ‘We suffer while you debate’

The Democratic Sabotage Squad in Congress has a lot to answer for as they continue to fight to shrink President Joe Biden’s economic and social...

Schumer to bring up Manchin's voting rights bill next week, with GOP filibuster all but guaranteed

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced in a letter to Senate Democrats Thursday that he will bring the Freedom To Vote Act to the floor when...

Sinema jaunts off for European fundraising trip, while progressives fight for our future

The contrasts in the Democratic Party between the majority and the feckless conservatives couldn’t have been made more clear than they have been...

Biden can save Christmas and the Postal Service by finally giving DeJoy the boot

Biden's FCC agenda is in jeopardy if he doesn't get on the stick and nominate two commissioners

Way back in July, President Joe Biden signed a sweeping new anti-trust executive order intended “to promote competition in the American economy,...

Every Republican in the House voted to blow up the economy, so why is Sinema enabling them?

The House passed a short-term debt ceiling increase Tuesday. Scratch that. The House Democrats passed a short-term debt ceiling increase on Tuesday,...

How Schumer and Pelosi could give in to McConnell on debt ceiling—and humiliate him in the process

Congressional Democrats, in the House anyway, are looking ahead this week to consider what to do about Mitch McConnell and his band of nihilists in...

House returns briefly to pass debt ceiling hike, continue fight against centrist defeatism

The House will be in session Tuesday, taking a break from a scheduled two-week break in order to pass the debt ceiling hike approved by the Senate...

Senate Republicans really want Trump to stay away, but won't say so on the record

Some Senate Republicans apparently want it known that they’re opposed to the former guy running for president again, or at least want him to...

McConnell sends Biden another debt ceiling hostage note

The day after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blinked and scraped together 11 Republican senators to prevent a global economic meltdown, he was...

Manchin and Sinema play a dangerous game with the planet's future

The House and Senate are out for the majority of this week, observing Indigenous People’s/Columbus Day. The House, however, will have a short...

Biden declares Indigenous People's Day, restores critical protections to national monuments

Righting numerous wrongs Friday, President Joe Biden answered the call of tribes and of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland by restoring protections to...

Manchin joins Republicans in condemning Schumer for not genuflecting to them on debt ceiling vote

Sen. Joe Manchin helped Mitch McConnell seize a rhetorical victory from the jaws of defeat, again, on Thursday, helping Republicans flip the narrative...

Senate postpones economic catastrophe, Biden and Schumer need to crack down to avert it entirely

The U.S. Senate once again managed the minimum Thursday—the bare minimum—by passing an extension of the debt ceiling in a 50-48 vote. After a day...

McConnell struggles to find nine other Republicans who don't want to blow up the global economy

Republicans were in total disarray Thursday after leader Mitch McConnell blinked and decided to allow a floor vote on saving the country from...

Manchin demands Biden, Democrats make 'Sophie's Choice' among plans for helping working families

Sen. Joe Manchin is feeling pretty damned full of himself these days, dictating to President Joe Biden and Democratic leadership the terms of their...

Senate reaches debt ceiling agreement, but angry Republicans won't make it easy for McConnell

Senate negotiations continued Wednesday night and into Thursday on extending the debt limit after Sen. Mitch McConnell blinked Wednesday...

Biden's plan could significantly advance racial equality, but Manchin and Sinema are opposed to that

President Joe Biden's Build Back Better legislation would make a profound difference in the lives of millions, from dental care for all Medicare...

McConnell blinks, won't filibuster debt ceiling hike

As the Senate was preparing to hold another doomed vote on suspending the debt ceiling Wednesday, which Republicans had vowed to filibuster,...

Biden raises possibility of ending the filibuster for debt ceiling issue

The Senate is scheduled to vote Wednesday afternoon to increase the debt ceiling to allow the treasury to continue to pay the nation’s...

One-third of Americans would abolish a radical Supreme Court, so expanding it is the moderate choice

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the highest court in the land three years ago this week. (Thanks for that, Joe Manchin!)....

McConnell is in a position to create economic chaos because Manchin and Sinema put him there

The Senate will be voting Wednesday to resolve the debt ceiling crisis. Except they won't actually be voting on the debt ceiling. They'll be voting on...

Yellen warns we're headed for economic catastrophe in debt ceiling game of chicken

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has set a deadline for Congress to act on lifting the debt ceiling: October 18. At that point, she will have exhausted...

U.S. Postal Service dips toe in postal banking venture, looks to expand program next year

There's good news coming from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Yes, the 10- year plan from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy—who is still in the...

Democrats can take McConnell's most powerful weapons away, and do it pretty easily

The traditional media is massively failing to hold Sen. Mitch McConnell and the Republican nihilists responsible for threatening to blow up the global...

United House progressives keep Biden's human infrastructure hopes alive

President Joe Biden, tacitly siding with the majority of Democrats and progressives, told House Democrats on Friday to take the time necessary to find...

Democrats introduce tax proposal to start clawing taxes back from megacorporations

Democrats Sens. Ron Wyden (Oregon) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio) have introduced a new tax on corporations that's likely to be included in the...

Garland makes strong case against Texas abortion ban, but is unlikely to win in Trump-packed courts

Attorney General Merrick Garland has sued Texas over that state's unconstitutional abortion ban, a ban that the radical Supreme Court let stand last...

Food insecurity did not increase in the pandemic, proof that we can afford to save the country

There are many lessons to learn from things like a global pandemic, and here's a huge one: it is within the government's capacity to make people's...

Biden announces measures against COVID-19 surge, including vaccine requirement for big employers

President Joe Biden is announcing a COVID-19 action plan, "a six-pronged, comprehensive national strategy that employs the same science-based...

Garland to file suit against Texas on abortion; House Democrats urge him to go after bounty hunters

The Department of Justice will file suit as soon as Thursday against Texas over its abortion ban, The Wall Street Journal reports. Justice is expected...

Congress can give us all the nice things, if they have the will to make it happen

The insanity of governing while Democrat was on full display Wednesday as numerous political figures fought over how much money is okay to spend on...

Harry Reid tries to inject some urgency into current leadership on the filibuster

Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a far great sense of urgency about what the Supreme Court just did to abortion rights in the U.S. than...

Biden focuses on climate in latest push for Build Back Better, infrastructure plans

President Joe Biden spent Tuesday surveying the wreckage in New York and New Jersey devastated by Hurricane Ida. He called it a warning for America on...

Pelosi, key committee chair blow off Manchin's posturing, move forward on Biden agenda

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal announced Tuesday that his committee is starting work this week on its part of the budget...

The U.S. is broken. Civics education might just save it

America has been Facebookified. You need look no further than the rash of people poisoning themselves using livestock dewormer to see the reach of the...

Klobuchar to Senate colleagues: 'End the filibuster,' 'get something done'

Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar is on a completely justifiable rampage. It’s pretty simple: unless we get rid of the filibuster, we’re...

Attorney General Garland 'urgently' exploring 'all options' for saving abortion rights in Texas

The Department of Justice is "urgently explor[ing] all options" to protect access to abortion service in Texas, Attorney General Merrick Garland said...

No, the federal budget isn't like a family budget. We can afford nice things

Well how about this.  "The federal government is not a family. And it's not a small business. And it's not a local government. And it's not a state...

Dear traditional media: Stop repeating forced birthers' lies about basic biology

Wednesday night, the PBS News Hour's John Yang said this in a news story about the U.S. Supreme Court's shadow docket overturning of abortion rights...

Manchin and Sabotage Squad once again threaten to take Biden's economic agenda hostage

While the Supreme Court has been feeding the constitution into the shredder, the eastern seaboard has been drowning, and the western third of the...

Expanding the Supreme Court is likely the only way to save it, let alone the republic

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler announced Thursday that his committee would hold hearings "to shine a light on the Supreme Court’s...

Democrats need to fight this abortion ban, and by 'fight' we don't mean 'fundraise'

Thus far, it appears that President Joe Biden is going to be waiting for his court reform commission to weigh in before he thinks he needs to do...

Supreme Court liberals blow the whistle on their dangerous institution. Biden, Congress must answer

[T]he majority’s decision is emblematic of too much of this Court’s shadow-docket decision-making—which every day becomes more un-reasoned,...

Thanks, Susan Collins, for this Supreme Court. Let her be the cautionary tale for Sinema

Remember when Sen. Susan Collins was so certain that Supreme Court nominee Brett “I like beer” Kavanaugh would respect the precedent of Roe v....

Biden, Schumer, Pelosi: Enough talk. Act. Expand the courts. Now.

The Supreme Court just made it absolutely clear that they're ready to toss the one thing Democrats have been running on since 1973, the year Roe v....

Leaving no fingerprints, the Supreme Court kills abortion rights in Texas, overturns Roe

The conservatives on the Supreme Court just ended Roe v. Wade without lifting a finger. Literally. They refused to act to block a new law in Texas...

McConnell, corporate America remind Manchin, Sinema that they're counting on them to sabotage Biden

Maybe this is entirely coincidental: The day that news dropped of a "massive lobbying blitz" by corporate America "to kill key parts of Democrats'...