For the time being and the foreseeable future, Manchin and his corporate sponsors hold the top cards. Unless something spectacular happens, there are no good ways out of this. The Joker was right: Everything burns

Enter the Congressional Progressive Caucus with a wondrously simple solution: Chop the thing in half

Question: When is a Democratic majority not a Democratic majority? Answer: When it’s a Democratic majority

It is profoundly ugly and uncomfortable to deal with on a daily basis, but coverage of Trump’s antics going forward will no longer feed the machine the way it did in the past

For all the genuine good contained in the budget bill, it pays for itself while making sure the vast wealth of the wealthiest remains virtually untouched

Put simply, there is deep fear within viral research circles that the mutations found in Mu may allow the variant to defeat our vaccine-enhanced immunity

AOC and the Progressive Caucus need to vote against the infrastructure bill if Pelosi allows it to be decoupled from the budget-climate bill

Twenty years, thousands of lives and trillions of dollars later, these people still think flapping “Our work is not done” remains a viable argument for the Forever War

“The American people expect us to deliver on child care, paid leave, housing, healthcare, climate action, and more — and we must.”

These wars represent more than 60 years of profiteering to the benefit of a preciously guarded few, while the rest of us drown in the blood and soot of aftermath