A defining feature of the U.S. Senate for more than two centuries, the concept of using long speeches to delay action or bring awareness to a cause has been at the heart of some of the most ...

Two thirds of British young people surveyed by a political website think "filibustering" is a sexual act. Shout Out U.K., a youth news platform, issued 5,267 randomly selected members of the British ...

This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. It’s a rare thing on Capitol Hill for a lawmaker’s team to ...

Earlier in the week, the Texas Senate was paralyzed on the last day of a special session by a 12 1/2 hour filibuster against a bill banning late-term abortions and setting strict standards for ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Speaking to a gathering of Democratic donors in late March, Sen. Claire McCaskill ...

In this week’s politics chat, we debate whether the Democratic strategy of filibustering President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, makes political sense. The transcript below has been ...

Democratic US Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut is filibustering on the Senate floor right now to push for legislation that would prevent terror suspects like the ...

Texas House Democrats escaping to the capital to avoid voting on new election laws is straight-up hypocritical, Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday on "Hannity." GOV. ABBOTT: What's going on in Texas with ...

Calling out congressional hypocrisy is almost hack at this point, but this week’s Supreme Court kerfuffle has seemed like such a high-water mark of transparent disingenuousness that it bears ...

A federal court scolded the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for continually delaying a formal response to a request that it restrict a pesticide’s use. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered ...

There has been a record number of anti-LBGTQ bills introduced in state legislatures this year, and state senator are doing what they can to stop hateful change. Nebraska Democratic state senator ...

IN MARCH ministers of the South Korean parliament set a new world record by speaking for 192 hours to delay an anti-terror bill that would have given sweeping powers ...