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Joe Manchin
early and often
Nov. 9, 2023
Joe Manchin Announces End of Senate Career, New 2024 Threat The veteran senator was sure to lose his seat in 2024, but he could still run for national office on a troublemaking No Labels ticket.
By Ed Kilgore
the senate
Sept. 20, 2023
Dress Code or Not, the Senate Is a Bunch of Empty Suits The Senate is a grotesque institution. Who cares how it dresses?
By Sarah Jones
early and often
July 21, 2023
No Labels 2024 Bid Bombs When Actual Candidates Are Named Voters are open to the third-party presidential ticket No Labels is threatening — until you name possible candidates Joe Manchin and Jon Huntsman.
By Ed Kilgore
climate change
July 13, 2023
A New Order Blocking Manchin’s Pipeline Could Hurt the Climate Restricting Congress’s authority to exempt energy projects from judicial review would undermine the green transition.
By Eric Levitz
early and often
May 12, 2023
Why on Earth Would Joe Manchin Run for President? The obvious reasons for pursuing an independent bid don’t apply to Manchin. The senator may just be looking for an excuse not to run for reelection.
By Ed Kilgore
Manchin and Sinema Have Every Reason to Sabotage Dems on the Debt Ceiling The two centrist troublemakers are in desperate straits back home and will use all the leverage they can muster to exploit the debt-limit crisis.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 27, 2023
Republicans Get Prize Recruit Jim Justice to Take On Joe Manchin If the endangered Democratic senator runs again, he could face West Virginia’s popular governor. But Justice has to survive a primary challenge.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Apr. 20, 2023
Joe Manchin Is 2024’s Most Vulnerable Democratic Senator Since the Inflation Reduction Act passed, Manchin’s popularity among Republicans in his state has collapsed. He’s in big trouble if Jim Justice runs.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
Dec. 8, 2022
Climate Hawks Should Have Given Joe Manchin His Pipeline Progressives must prioritize expediting the build-out of clean energy over obstructing fossil-fuel development.
By Eric Levitz
celeb friendships
Oct. 26, 2022
Jennifer Garner Has a Direct Line to Joe Manchin, Apparently “When anything’s happening, the whole world calls me and says, ‘Maybe you should try Joe Manchin.’”
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
early and often
Sept. 23, 2022
Senators Can Grumble, But Joe Manchin Is Getting His Reward Though there is some bipartisan opposition to Manchin’s proposal to streamline energy-project approval, nobody wants a government shutdown right now.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Sept. 9, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
Everything’s Coming Up Schumer The Senate majority leader has a “different way of getting things done” that saved Biden’s agenda and maybe their party.
By Ben Jacobs
inflation reduction act
Aug. 12, 2022
IRA Is Already Taken, Democrats The party needs a name for its bill that doesn’t summon images of Joe Manchin in a balaclava.
By Nate Jones
early and often
Aug. 8, 2022
Senate Democrats Finally Get Their Big Climate, Health Care, and Tax Bill Done An overview of what’s in the Inflation Reduction Act and what last-minute changes were made.
By Chas Danner
climate change
Aug. 8, 2022
What to Know About the New Climate Deal The Senate just passed the country’s most ambitious climate legislation to date.
By Bindu Bansinath
early and often
Aug. 2, 2022
Republicans Line Up to Challenge Manchin in 2024 for Sin of Being a Democrat Now that Manchin has agreed to only partially kill Biden’s agenda, Republicans are outraged. But it’s unclear he’ll even run in two years.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Aug. 2, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
Aug. 1, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
July 20, 2022
Good-bye to Biden’s Social-Policy Agenda In the end, sheer economic ignorance killed it.
By Jonathan Chait
early and often
July 17, 2022
Democrats Learn That a Trifecta Isn’t Everything In 2017, Republicans had a trifecta and couldn’t repeal Obamacare. Sometimes institutional issues are to blame more than politicians like Joe Manchin.
By Ed Kilgore
early and often
July 16, 2022
Democrats’ Problems Go Beyond Joe Manchin The West Virginia senator is more a consequence than the cause of the party’s failures.
By Ross Barkan
the national interest
July 15, 2022
The Democrats’ Failure Is Complete It would be too easy to blame only Manchin for the death of their agenda.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 19, 2022
Is the Democratic Party Giving Up Already? Defeatism and passivity settle over Washington.
By Jonathan Chait
the national interest
May 17, 2022
Joe Manchin Has Done a Terrible Job Fighting Inflation The pivotal senator would rather complain about prices than do anything about them.
By Jonathan Chait
the city politic
Mar. 29, 2022
AOC’s Warning for Democrats: ‘We’re in Trouble’ The progressive star says she’s been vindicated about Joe Manchin and that President Biden must go it alone to save their party in the fall.
By Errol Louis
Problem Democrat Joe Manchin Throws His Party a Few Bones The West Virginian affirmed his support for Ketanji Brown Jackson and salvaging Build Back Better, indicating he understands the limits of his power.
By Ed Kilgore
Manchin Makes Biden a Good Offer. But Will Sinema Buy It? The West Virginian is inclined to okay Biden tax proposals that the Arizonan has vetoed in the past. Something’s got to give for anything to get done.
By Ed Kilgore
A Last-Ditch Effort to Codify Roe v. Wade Just Failed Republicans in the Senate voted against protecting abortion rights in advance of the Supreme Court’s ruling.
By Danielle Cohen
3.7 Million Kids Fell Below the Poverty Line in One Month Now that benefits for low-income parents have expired, child poverty is the highest it’s been since 2020.
By Danielle Cohen
Build Back Better Was Always a God-awful Name Joe Manchin has given Democrats a precious opportunity to rebrand their agenda.
By Benjamin Hart
2022 midterms
Feb. 7, 2022
What’s the Point of Manchin and Murkowski Endorsing Each Other? Manchin has made a habit of backing relatively moderate Republican colleagues, but it probably won’t help Murkowski’s complex path to reelection.
By Ed Kilgore
Democrats’ Control of Senate Iffy As Luján Recovers From Stroke Thankfully, the New Mexico senator is expected to recover fully. But during his absence, some big Democratic initiatives must be put on hold.
By Ed Kilgore
A Guide to Congress’s Jam-Packed February Democrats’ to-do list includes salvaging Build Back Better, reforming election laws, and avoiding a shutdown — and they know time is running out.
By Ed Kilgore
kyrsten sinema
Jan. 30, 2022
Kyrsten Sinema’s New Republican Friends Aren’t Going to Vote for Her Her antics have cost her the support of Arizona Democrats, and she won’t be saved by the Republicans lionizing her for “saving the Senate.”
By Ed Kilgore
Can Kamala Harris Break a Tie on a Supreme Court Confirmation? In 2020, Laurence Tribe claimed the vice-president has no tiebreaking powers on judicial confirmations. Republicans are looking into the theory.
By Ed Kilgore
Will Sinema and Manchin Screw This Up? Nothing may unite Democrats better than putting the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
By Ben Jacobs
build back better
Jan. 20, 2022
Give Manchin What He Wants Already Before Democrats give up on passing Biden’s climate agenda, they should see if the West Virginia senator will take yes for an answer.
By Eric Levitz
voting rights
Jan. 11, 2022
Biden Talks Loudly About Voting-Rights Bills, But Has No Big Stick to Enact Them The president’s Tuesday commitment to filibuster reform is welcome, but it may not matter if he cannot do something to sway Manchin and Sinema.
By Ed Kilgore
the national interest
Jan. 10, 2022
By Jonathan Chait
election law
Jan. 4, 2022
Democrats Must Seize Any Chance to Prevent an Election Coup There are rumors that Senate Republicans might offer a deal to fix the law that enabled January 6. Squandering that opportunity would be very foolish.
By Ed Kilgore
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
joe manchin
Dec. 22, 2021
Could Joe Manchin Really Switch Parties? The senator may become a Republican one day, but giving up the enormous leverage he holds over Democrats right now makes little sense.
By Ed Kilgore
The Truth About Joe Manchin He says he has to explain his opposition to “the people.” That’s not who he’s serving.
By Sarah Jones
joe manchin
Dec. 21, 2021
What Do Progressives Hope to Gain From Bashing Manchin? The idea that Democrats can take Manchin to the woodshed back home in West Virginia betrays a very poor understanding of that state’s Trumpy politics.
By Ed Kilgore
joe manchin
Dec. 21, 2021
The Democratic Agenda Dies of Delusions Manchin’s views are fallacious and classist. But they’ve also been crystal clear, and the Democratic leadership willfully ignored them.
By Eric Levitz
Omicron and Manchin Nudge Economy Into ‘the Unknown’ Wall Street is not loving all the pandemic and legislative uncertainty right now.
By Kevin T. Dugan
the national interest
Dec. 20, 2021
Biden Should Take Manchin’s Deal Right Now Politics is about making things better, not speaking truth to power.
By Jonathan Chait
fuck this guy
Dec. 20, 2021
What Joe Manchin Really Thinks About Poor Parents The senator reportedly told colleagues that child-tax-credit payments would be spent on drugs.
By Claire Lampen
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