A More Polarized Senate Drives Shutdown Gridlock

With few senators from conservative states in their ranks, Democrats feel less pressure to capitulate, while more conservative Republicans are not inclined to cut a deal.

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Joe Manchin Would Like a Word. (OK, Maybe Several Words.)

The voluble former senator, now retired from politics, appears to miss the arena and is mulling a return to it.

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For Democrats, Hindsight Is 2021

Democrats once had a chance to blunt a couple of the moves President Trump is making now, on redistricting and the takeover of the police force in Washington, D.C.

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Meet Rep. Greg Casar, the Texas Millennial Trying to Rebrand the Democrats

“We can’t bring a policy book to a gunfight,” said Representative Greg Casar of Texas, the incoming chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

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