Outside the Beltway

Two popular Republican governors have declined a chance to join the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.

It’s Manchin-approved.

New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Luján is hospitalized with a stroke.

The longtime Senate leader is gone at 82.

The 83-year-old Justice is playing a dangerous game.

The West Virginia Senator has taken the football from Charlie Brown and gone home.

Is the stalwart of Senate bipartisanship interested in governing?

They’re searching for good times. But just wait and see.

Every now and again, it’s not Mitch McConnell’s fault.

The Vietnam War hero and one-term Georgia Senator has died at 79.

Senator Romney and the latest edition of the senatorial pro-filibuster op/ed.

$1.75 trillion ain’t $3.5 trillion but it’s something.

The West Virginia Senator is the epicenter of contemporary American politics.

It does not create better deliberation.

The political calculus of Arizona’s senior Senator is unclear.

More machinations from the mischievous mining mouthpiece.

He beats the alternative.

J.D. Vance’s cynical suggestion.

It turns out a 51-50 Senate majority isn’t enough.

Are Sinema and Machin going to jump ship?

It’s no better than Joe Manchin’s.

Discussing the filibuster.

The country is in peril.

The flagship of the centrist Navy is both a throwback and a sign of what’s wrong with the Senate.

It doesn’t work like the movies, Senator.

While progressives in the party are often frustrated with the West Virginia Senator, he is demonstrating yet again that he’s no Republican.

Appoint more Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Or else!

Deal-making in Washington is next to impossible.

Yet another reminder about pathologies of US democracy.

Harry Reid is playing hardball, invoking a tactic that he himself decried being threatened when Republicans were in charge.