Frustration that the filibuster was not deployed last week should not obscure that it silently constrains the Republican agenda daily.
Kyrsten Sinema
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Ruben Gallego and His Intriguing Bid For the U.S. Senate
In purple Arizona, the Democratic congressman is seeking to replace Kyrsten Sinema next year and he’s offering a model for Democrats nationally.
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Georgia’s Election Laws Couldn’t Stop Raphael Warnock
Critics of the changes to state voting laws called them “Jim Crow 2.0.”
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Lessons From Joe Manchin’s March to Victory
Progressives miscalculated, thinking that big proposals would change the debate, and closing their minds to the possibility of persuading their political opponents. Biden and Schumer saw the bigger picture.
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Limitations of Statute
The conservative Supreme Court is poised to dismantle the regulatory state. Representative Pramila Jayapal is the lone liberal fighting back.
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With Roe Almost Gone, Democrats Need to Stick Together to Save Legal Abortion
Squabbling over the filibuster and court packing isn’t the answer.
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The Art of the Pump
For many Americans, January 6, 2021—the day when insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, the first breach on the sentinel of our democracy in centuries—is a troubling, trembling memory. But for a 30-year-old “political futures” trader from outside Philadelphia who goes by the online moniker “Zubbybadger,” it is that, and something else, too. For Zubby, January […]
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Ro Khanna’s Plan to Make Big Tech Better
An interview with the Silicon Valley congressman on our digital future, the Republicans, and where fellow progressives sometimes go wrong.
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Democrats Need Something Big to Run On. Why Don’t Manchin and Sinema Get That?
The close Virginia governor’s race is a warning: If the Dems want to hold on to power, they have to deliver.
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Kyrsten Sinema’s Lasting Legacy for Women
The Arizona senator is making it harder, not easier, to elect more females to Congress.
