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  1. trans rights
    Nebraska Senator Goes Scorched-Earth to Defend Trans YouthMachaela Cavanaugh is prepared to filibuster indefinitely to block a bill targeting gender-affirming care for minors.
    By Claire Lampen
  2. life after roe
    Biden: Scrap the Filibuster (Once) to Codify AbortionThe ultimate Senate traditionalist backs a more drastic approach for the second time in a year.
    By Benjamin Hart
  3. the national interest
    Will Social Conservatives Make Mitch McConnell Kill the Filibuster?The end of Roe may end the reign of the GOP’s money wing.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. life after roe
    Senate Democrats Will Try to Save Abortion Rights. It Won’t Work.Democrats have vowed to take action before the Supreme Court strikes down Roe v. Wade. But they still don’t have a plan to beat the filibuster.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. the national interest
    The Filibuster Is Living on Borrowed TimeMitch McConnell wants you to think the fight is over. It’s not.
    By Jonathan Chait
  6. politics
    Kyrsten Sinema’s Moment of InfamyThe enigmatic Democrat votes for the filibuster and against her party.
    By Ben Jacobs
  7. the national interest
    The Filibuster Won’t Stop an Authoritarian PresidentSinema’s confused case for letting Republicans block voting rights.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. the national interest
    Joe Manchin Falsely Says Senate Has Always Had the FilibusterThe filibuster was not in the Constitution.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. democrats
    Will a Doomed Voting-Rights Push Really Help Biden?Democrats’ “supercharged” drive to pass voting-rights legislation, which will likely fail, could discourage base voters more than sober realism.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. voting rights
    Democrats Are Cruising for a Bruising on Voting RightsIf Biden and his party raise expectations on voting rights legislation that they cannot fulfill, the repercussions could be serious in 2022.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. the national interest
    Mitt Romney’s Nonsensical Defense of the FilibusterA point-by-point rebuttal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. voting rights
    Are Failed Voting-Rights Pushes Backfiring for Democrats?The party keeps trying to dramatize Republican obstruction of voting-rights legislation. But it is also drawing attention to its futility.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. politics
    Democrats, Joe Manchin Is Absolutely Not Going to Reform the FilibusterIf a potential debt default followed by an economic collapse isn’t reason enough to limit the power of the filibuster, nothing else is either.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. congress
    All These Crises in Congress Are Self-ImposedThe dysfunction in D.C. is largely the product of Congress’s own laws and procedures. And lawmakers have the power to fix it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. congress
    Mitch McConnell Prefers Calamitous Debt Default to Helping DemocratsDemocrats helped McConnell raise the debt limit during the last administration, but he insists Republicans aren’t going to return the favor.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. voting rights
    What Would the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Actually Do?The legislation, which just passed the House again, would slow down state voter-suppression measures. But it is opposed by nearly all Republicans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. democrats
    If Democrats Don’t Exploit This Trifecta, Another Could Be Far AwayDemocrats will probably lose their governing trifecta in 2022, and it won’t get easier in 2024 or 2026. Historically, they don’t come along often.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. the national interest
    Why Mitch McConnell Is Giving Joe Biden a Bipartisan Infrastructure WinI thought Republicans would kill it. Here’s what I got wrong.
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. voting rights
    Democrats Can’t Out-Organize a Gerrymander — or Outflank Joe ManchinVoting-rights advocates shouldn’t expect Biden to do the impossible in Congress, while Biden should understand there are laws you cannot out-organize.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. voting rights
    Kamala Harris Unveils Another Fallback Strategy for Voting RightsGetting voters to the polls despite hostile state laws is a valuable Plan B for voting rights, not a mere a gesture after failure in Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. infrastructure
    ‘We Have a Deal’: Biden Endorses Senators’ Bipartisan Infrastructure PlanThe deal can only hang together if Democrats, including Joe Manchin, can unite around a reconciliation bill to enact the rest of Biden’s agenda.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. the national interest
    Dianne Feinstein’s Confused Nostalgia for the FilibusterThe system worked in the old days, before the filibuster was routine.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national interest
    Kyrsten Sinema’s Filibuster Defense Is Factually UntrueModerate senator loves the supermajority requirement, doesn’t understand how it works.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. the national interest
    Is This the Dumbest Filibuster Defense Ever Written?I cannot believe this column was published in a national newspaper.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. politics
    Manchin Says He’ll Oppose For the People ActDemocrats’ would-be landmark voting-rights legislation now officially appears to be dead on arrival.
    By Chas Danner
  26. the national interest
    The Fake History of the Filibuster Won’t DieSenators keep repeating the made-up origin story for their peculiar rule.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. the national interest
    The Crazy New Republican Argument That the Filibuster Helped Civil RightsSomehow, delaying civil-rights laws for 50 years was helpful.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. politics
    Manchin Closes Door on Gutting the Filibuster, But It Gets WorseDemocrats have a West Virginia shaped thorn in their sides.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. voting rights
    Will Joe Manchin Save Voting Rights?Manchin’s state is afoul of many provisions of the For the People Act. A more modest bill might help convince him to support a filibuster exception.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. filibuster
    Trump Flip-Flops on the FilibusterTrump often said the filibuster was killing the Republican Party. Now, he says keeping it is the key to the party’s survival.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. politics
    Could the Atlanta Spa Shootings Break Congress’s Gun-Control Impasse?The Georgia killings add fresh urgency to two gun bills that just passed in the House, but the GOP Senate filibuster still stands in the way.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. the national interest
    Republicans: End the Filibuster, and We’ll Punish America by Enacting Our AgendaMitch McConnell’s strangest defense of the supermajority rule.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. the national interest
    Joe Manchin Says He Might Reform the Filibuster and Save American DemocracyDeciphering the most important policy statement of the year.
    By Jonathan Chait
  34. the national interest
    How Never Trumpers Are Becoming Pro-Democracy RepublicansRepublicans who left the party over Trump are staying away over authoritarianism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. politics
    Republican Senators Haven’t Represented a Majority of Voters Since 1996The anti-majoritarian nature of the Senate has helped Republicans block progress for many years.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. politics
    What the Filibuster Has Cost AmericaThe damage has been massive, and it’s past time for reform.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. u.s. senate
    Democrats Take Control After Striking Power-Sharing DealBoth Democrats and Republicans can claim a tactical win in the maneuvering over the filibuster.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. voting rights
    Why Democrats Must Keep the Filibuster From Killing Voting RightsWith red states racing to further restrict voting, some limited filibuster reform to allow voting-rights legislation to be passed is now essential.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. filibuster
    The Defining Battle of Biden’s Presidency Is Already Raging in the SenateMitch McConnell’s push for Democrats to rule out filibuster abolition — and thus, most of their policy goals — has triggered a standoff.
    By Eric Levitz
  40. president trump
    We’re Lucky the Trump Presidency Wasn’t WorseElecting an authoritarian reality star brought us mass death and insurrection. But it’s also left us with a fighting chance to fortify our democracy.
    By Eric Levitz
  41. vision 2020
    Biden Had One Job and He Did ItBiden took advantage of all Trump’s self-inflicted political wounds and now looks to be a necessary if limited transitional president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. vision 2020
    Democrats Are Moving Fast on the Filibuster. Joe Biden Isn’t Yet.Nearly everything the party wants to achieve probably hinges on a procedural step their candidate may refuse to take.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  43. police reform
    Senate Democrats Stall Republican Police-Reform Bill to Force NegotiationsBipartisan negotiations will have to occur unless both parties are satisfied with their positions on this subject going into November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. vision 2020
    If He Wants to Save the Country, Biden Needs to Understand Obama’s FailuresIf he wins, Biden will face challenges more daunting than those Obama faced, and failed to vanquish, in 2009. He’ll need to aim higher.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. vision 2020
    Elizabeth Warren’s One-Two Punch for Conquering WashingtonThe policy-oriented senator has at least a good start on a plan for enacting her plans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. vision 2020
    Bernie’s Plan to Thwart the Filibuster Is Needlessly ComplicatedAt the debate, Sanders described a dubious strategy for circumventing the filibuster, borrowed from Ted Cruz. Warren has a simpler idea: abolish it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. filibuster
    Today’s Republicans Use the Filibuster Just Like the Segregationists DidUntil Democrats show the moral outrage that overcame filibusters against civil rights, you can forget about gun, climate change, or immigration bills.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. the national interest
    McConnell Recruiting Senate Democrats to Destroy the Next Democratic PresidencyMcConnell says Senate Democrats should let him filibuster everything.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. vision 2020
    Is Beating Trump the Best Democrats Can Hope to Achieve in 2020?Maybe electability is the only candidate quality that matters if Democrats can’t figure out a way to enact their agenda.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. budget deal
    Trump, Pelosi Reach Budget/Debt Limit DealYes, the deal is a hamburger job that doesn’t satisfy anyone’s appetites, but that’s the price you pay for divided government.
    By Ed Kilgore
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