At year's end, Donald Trump and Congress are putting a lump of "clean, beautiful coal" in our stockings.

Republicans have long dreamed of destroying the social safety net once and for all; this bill finally threatens to accomplish that.

As the special election approaches, Republicans abandon morality for power.

The war hero and Arizona lawmaker talked a good game on the Senate floor Tuesday, but his actions belie his words.

Unions and education activists urged Lisa Murkowski to oppose Trump’s education pick. On Tuesday, in a testament to the power of grass-roots resistance, Murkowski switched.

Amid voter outrage at special-interest influence, Senate Democrats have unveiled a plan to run on fixing the political system.

A Sanders-style "political revolution" needs candidates committed to bold ideas and voters with the will to elect them. Meet some of the hopefuls on the ballot this year.

David Jolly's proposed ban on members of Congress asking for campaign donations could help him stand out in a crowded Florida Senate race.

Ideology has never been as important to the Senate majority leader as power.

Twenty-six years after the infamous Willie Horton ad, race-based politics blocked Debo Adegbile's passage to head the Justice Department's civil rights division.