For stretches, the speech had a kind of relaxed podcast vibe, as Booker kidded with other senators or even did quasi-comedy bits (his re-enactment of Elon Musk trying to describe to Joe Rogan why ...

At the very moments Booker was returning to his villainous “the world’s most powerful man and the world’s richest man,” Elon Musk was seen on various news channels presenting cartoon-sized ...

Your donation to WOLA is crucial to keeping these paywall-free and ad-free Updates going ... An ally of the Trump administration, Bukele tweeted a cartoon image of an angry Snowball the Rabbit, a ...

Democrats were against the filibuster before they were for it ... Almost every Republican would have voted to keep the government open, while almost every Democrat would have supported shutting ...

Democrats spent this week celebrating Booker’s historic “filibuster,” typically an ... while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet.” But I agree with then-Sen.

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Catherine Cortez Masto, voted to break the filibuster on the funding bill. It’s unclear why some Democrats believe a government shutdown would have helped their political fortunes. Almost every ...

When I interviewed to work for then-Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2021, he told me that we’d have one focus: protecting the filibuster. Thanks to a combination of McConnell’s shrewd ...

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., condemned the Senate filibuster as an "abuse of power" in 2022, years before his party praised him for launching the "longest filibuster in U.S. Senate history" on Tuesday.