The ongoing federal government shutdown is poised to break the record for longest shutdown in the history of the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed or forced to ...

Government gridlock is not always dysfunction. Government gridlock is not always dysfunction. We could have used more of it during COVID — remember how governments acted then? The filibuster is a tool ...

Conservative demands to abolish the filibuster, like earlier lamentations over the continued existence of the pesky debt limit, strongly indicate that, yes, we do indeed live in bizarro times and ...

Republican President Donald Trump, instead of calling on Congress to negotiate over its budget impasse, has instead called on GOP senators to end the filibuster rule to bypass a Democratic roadblock ...