The U.S. has an ongoing program-- largely ineffective and even dysfunctional-- of bullying foreign countries with sanctions against...

The story of the fight to pass Biden's Build Back Better compromise-- which is good but could have been/should have been great-- can't be...

Saturday Night Live doesn't normally get down into the weeds of politics as deeply as they did last night. That cold opening was...

A few hours ago the two NY Times Jonathans-- Martin and Weisman reported what has become more and more apparent since Biden's visit to...

Manchin says his spending limit is $1.5 trillion on the reconciliation bill, not even half the compromise($3.5 trillion down from $6...

What could Schumer have imagined would happened when he recruited the chair of the Blue Dogs-- also the member of the House with the...

As head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Pramila claims she has at least 48 votes to block passage of the conservative-- and...

Last night, at the same time that Pelosi roped in two Texas House conservatives-- two of No Labels' "Unbreakable 9-- who had opposed...

Kyrsten Sinema is a brittle crackpot. When she attempted to make her jump from the Arizona state Senate to the U.S. House, we were on...

Looks like Pelosi fell right into the transparent trap the Republican wing of the Democratic Party set up. Manchin and Sinema got...

They're all so profoundly wretched-- and so dedicated to maintaining a corrupt status quo-- that it barely matters if one is slightly...

by Noah Saturday Morning Cartoon: Imagine a world... Yeah, you're gonna have to imagine it because what's depicted in the above cartoon...

Yesterday, we took a look at how some of the paid-off corrupt Democrats in Congress are slyly working to undermine Biden's domestic...

Whether Joe Manchin's private jet landing in Lexington, Kentukcy yesterday signaled a meeting with McConnell to discuss his defection to...

No one wants to hear this-- except Republicans-- but Amherst political science professor Austin Sarat came out and said it out loud in...

In his newsletter about redistricting this morning, Judd Legum points out what's at stake: "the future of democracy itself." It isn't...

Mike Rounds (R-SD) being away, the Senate Dems didn't need Kamala Harris late last night-- technically this morning, one at 3:51 AM and...

Trump is against the conservative infrastructure bill and flipping out about the 17 Republican senators who ignored his threats and voted...

Between June 28 and July 6, Data For Progress polled Arizona likely voters about Kyrsten Sinema and released the results yesterday....

Almost a decade ago I did the last of my bi-annual reports on the >best and the worst Democratic freshmen in Congress. In July, 2013....