Peter Z. Scheer / TruthdigOct 14, 2013
Smelling blood in the water, Senate Democrats over the weekend rejected a Republican proposal to reopen the government and raise the debt limit. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigApr 22, 2013
Victories often contain the seeds of future defeats. So it is -- or at least should be -- with the Senate's morally reprehensible rejection of expanded background checks for gun buyers. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigApr 18, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including a bipartisan gun control deal collapses in the Senate and a Texas congressman makes insulting comments about the Boston Marathon bombings. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Tracy Bloom / TruthdigApr 17, 2013
A look at the day's political happenings, including the release of a post-9/11 torture report that lays the blame squarely at the feet of the nation's highest officeholders and the unveiling of a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Bill Blum / TruthdigApr 16, 2013
In the wake of Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombings, should we urge the Senate to proceed with the gun control debate as scheduled? Or should we condemn both chambers of Congress and the president for doing too little, too late to deal with the problem of mass violence and what some have termed the nation’s culture of death?The Boston Marathon blasts took the lives of three people. They also threaten to take another casualty, postponing, if not entirely derailing, the Senate debate on gun control. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Tracy Bloom / TruthdigDec 18, 2012
A look at the day's political happenings, including the death of one the longest serving US senators and an update on negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff A look at the day's political happenings, including the death of one of the longest-serving U . Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 17, 2010
West Virginia's Gov Joe Manchin III has picked a successor to the late US Sen Robert Byrd, and the new recruit is a young whippersnapper at that He's 36-year-old Carte Goodwin, and he's also a Democrat, but his party can't get too excited (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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