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America’s tax cut era has outlasted its welcome

by Kathryn Anne Edwards For more than two decades, America has pursued a policy as costly as the New Deal of the 1930s or the Great Society of the 1960s, but with a much narrower aim: cut taxes. Judging from the Congressional Budget Office’s latest forecasts, it has gone much too ...

Contraception bill vote previews next fight over rights

It is infuriating as well as alarming that the U.S. Senate on Wednesday failed to pass the Right to Contraception Act, a straightforward bill that would guarantee a federal right to safe and legal contraception. The bill needed 60 votes to proceed but only received 51, all but two of those ...

Controlling Congress counts, too

by Steven Roberts Happy Valley, Ore., population 23,733, played a small but significant role in American politics last week. That’s the hometown of Janelle Bynum, a state legislator who won the Democratic nomination for Congress against Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, one of 17 vulnerable ...

Democrats should let MTG be the Republicans’ problem

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s nasty remark about a fellow congresswoman’s appearance was characteristically stupid. But the Georgia Republican is hoist on her own petard on such a regular basis, why would Democrats want to stop her? You may have seen the video of the House Oversight ...

Two contrasting congressional days

Last Friday in Washington there was evidence of why only 16% of the public approve of the job Congress is doing, according to a Gallup poll. During a House Oversight Committee hearing on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a ...