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Harry Reid
September 13, 2022
Grace Segers
How Chuck Schumer Finally Got His Big Breakthrough
“I know everything about my caucus,” the Senate majority leader enthused. “I care about them. I love them.”
December 29, 2021
Faiz Shakir
Harry Reid Was a Tireless Warrior for the Working Class
The most important politician to ever hail from Nevada, the late senator never forgot his hardscrabble beginnings and the promises he made to the American people.
December 9, 2014
Brian Beutler
Mitch McConnell Has a Clever Strategy to Box In Obama and End Senate Gridlock. He Should Do It.
December 8, 2014
Danny Vinik
The Senate Should Cancel Its Own Christmas and Stay in Session Until 2015
September 29, 2014
Brian Beutler
Killing the "Nuclear Option" Will Not Save the Senate. It Will Ruin Obama's Final Two Years.
July 30, 2014
Brian Beutler
The Three Reasons Republicans Might Actually Impeach Obama in Spite of Themselves
July 22, 2014
Danny Vinik
Harry Reid Might Have Saved Obamacare by Going Nuclear
The ACA subsidies decision likely will be overturned by the full appeals court
October 8, 2013
Noam Scheiber
Thank God Joe Biden Has Been Marginalized in the Shutdown Standoff
Here's What He Did Last Time
October 1, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
United Democrats Stand, Divided Republicans Fall
July 16, 2013
Jonathan Cohn
The Winners—and One Big Loser—of the Filibuster Fight
July 15, 2013
Alec MacGillis
Nuclear War
Why filibuster reform matters
July 12, 2013
Molly Redden
Why a Filibuster Rule Change Won't Turn the Senate Into the House
January 16, 2013
Bill Scher
Obama Doesn't Need an Assault Weapons Ban
October 15, 2012
Nate Cohn
Democratic Voter Registration Hurts Romney's Chances In Nevada
October 7, 2011
Timothy Noah
The Senate’s Option Wasn’t “Nuclear”
July 25, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy Madness!
July 25, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Debt Ceiling And The Partisan Mind
July 22, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Obama Gets Mad
May 2, 2011
Jonathan Bernstein
Attention Harry Reid
February 28, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
The Biggest Losers in the Budget Battle

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