Progressives and moderates are split over Michael Barr, the president’s likely nominee to become one of the banking industry’s top regulators.
The stakes for Democrats’ election-reform plan couldn’t be higher.
Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.
Will they get rid of the filibuster if it means passing their voting-rights and election-reform agenda?
Tension within the Republican coalition over the Capitol riot could push GOP-leaning voters into the new president’s camp.
The insurrection could spur a federal-government crackdown on white-nationalist groups, as well as strengthen the case for systemic police reform.
The Capitol riot showed how the ominous tenor of contemporary GOP messaging could be fueling white conservatives’ extremism.
President Trump is the reason the GOP will likely lose its Senate majority.
The president-elect insists he can work with Republicans. Some fellow Democrats have doubts.
“In elections going forward, not trying to steal the election will be seen as RINO behavior.”
Justices’ drive to promote “religious liberty” may only become more intense.
Joe Biden’s walloping victory in the popular vote didn’t translate down-ballot.
Republican support for Trump’s election-fraud claims isn’t just damaging to Biden and democracy—it’s damaging to Republicans too.
Joe Biden succeeded in bridging his party’s past and future coalitions—but the challenges of future elections are daunting.
Nothing about the results so far suggests the election will break the country’s long-term political stalemate.
Democrats could win decisively next week. But that still wouldn’t neutralize minority Republican power.
Millennials and Gen Z are only a few years away from dominating the electorate.
The Republican Party wants to shield itself from the growing Democratic coalition.
The Biden campaign doesn’t want to shift any focus away from President Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic.
Their health-care plans’ lack of protections is a feature, not a bug.