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New Jersey Democracy Died in Darkness? Nov. 12, 2021
At The Washington Post, when Democrats are kicked unceremoniously out of office, it can only mean on... Read More
The Democratic Centrist-Progressive Alliance Hinges Upon Build Back Better Nov. 12, 2021
"At a certain point, we have to trust one another," Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vermont, said Nov. 5 as he l... Read More
Senator Sinema: The Outsider Is In Nov. 03, 2021
I spied a woman in a purple and silver wig, walking around the Senate floor with astronaut Mark Kell... Read More
Haggling Over Trillions While Important Goals Get Shoved Aside Nov. 01, 2021
Democratic negotiators appear close to a deal that effectively would halve the original $3.5 trillio... Read More
Allegations of Greitens Campaign Fund Shenanigans Have a Familiar Ring to Them Nov. 01, 2021
In what may qualify as the least-surprising development in Missouri politics lately, disgraced forme... Read More
Was Schmitt's Texas Trip a Campaign Event or Official Action? Both, It Seems Oct. 27, 2021
In a transparent political stunt reminiscent of his silly lawsuit against China's government, Missou... Read More
Note to Biden: Love the Senate Less Oct. 27, 2021
Two senators should not be pushing a president around on a signature package — legacy legislat... Read More
Republicans Gain Big in Blue-Collar Elections But Narrowly in Affluent State Legislative Elections Oct. 22, 2021
State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment these days. T... Read More
No, Kyrsten Sinema Is Not Like John McCain Oct. 21, 2021
I don't know Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, but I did know the late Sen. John McCain. Not at all intimately, t... Read More
Facebook Stokes Anger for Profit. Congress Can Demand it Cool Things Down. Oct. 08, 2021
Facebook doesn't just provide a platform for those who spread disinformation and toxic discourse ... Read More
Hawley Tries To Blame Afghanistan Debacle on Efforts to Reform Military Culture Oct. 04, 2021
Josh Hawley, Missouri's spotlight-seeking Republican junior senator, offers this theory of why Presi... 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
Biden Policies Need Better Arguments Than 'Orange Man Bad' Oct. 01, 2021
"First you win the argument, then you win the vote." That advice from Margaret Thatcher has been ign... Read More
Biden's Afghanistan Disaster: Predictable and Not Over Sep. 29, 2021
A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday put a bright spotlight on President Joe Biden's... Read More
Our Future Depends on Learning From Sept. 11 Sep. 14, 2021
Our country this weekend mourns history's worst attack on the U.S. mainland, 20 years after extreme ... Read More
With Georgia Suit, Biden Shows He's Not Surrendering on Voting Rights Jun. 30, 2021
The Biden administration last week upped the ante in the struggle over voting rights, announcing it ... Read More
How Many Times Must McConnell Show Who He Is Before Some Democrats Believe Him? Jun. 21, 2021
So much for quaint notions of bipartisanship. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell this week blunt... 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
Big Tech Only Has Itself to Blame for Republican Rethinking of Antitrust Jun. 18, 2021
There are few, if any, political issues that now generate the breadth and intensity of bipartisan ba... 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
