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Democrats aren’t ready to nuke the filibuster. Not now. And possibly not ever, depending how serious you think Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema were when they announced this week that they would oppose any effort to blow up their chamber’s antiquated, obviously destructive 60-vote threshold.

Practically speaking, this means that if Democrats want to enact most of their agenda, they

Ariel Hill-Davis likes to jokingly refer to herself as a “geriatric millennial.” She’s a Republican, but as a self-proclaimed “hardcore moderate” she’s been called a RINO (Republican in name only) pretty much since the moment she entered the political sphere in 2008.

Through her work with Republican Women for Progress, Hill-Davis, who lives in Washington, D.C., is hoping to reshape the

Democrats are grappling with the increasingly dire political reality facing them in next year’s midterm elections as warning signs pile up for the party ahead of 2022.

Once hopeful that they could defy the typical midterm shellacking dealt to the party in power, a series of foreboding developments has rocked that sense of optimism. President Biden’s approval ratings are in free fall,

President Trump has overseen the construction of more than 200 miles of border wall, a policy I profoundly disagree with. While Mr. Trump touts this achievement as a sign of his unique willingness to tackle problems associated with illegal immigration, he’s hardly the first leader to erect barriers along our southern border. In September of 2006, the U.S. Senate — including then-Sens. Hillary