THE PLUM LINE

Hopes are dimming that Democrats will act to disable the debt limit during the lame-duck session.

They talk about being an anti-corporate workers' party, but when it comes time to help workers, it's a different story.

He could do much more to stand up for American labor and challenge our ideas about work.

How the scheming of Kari Lake and her election-denying allies shows the need for reform.

"Gaslighting" is the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year, and the problem is worse than ever.

A historian of white power movements sheds light on Trump's dinner with Nick Fuentes.

Journalists are becoming veterans at covering the carnage of mass shootings.

Put on your olive shirt, gaze with steely resolve across the Rio Grande — and make immigration reform less likely.

Democrats can counterprogram the coming GOP wave of Benghazi-style investigations.

Elon Musk may have restored the former president’s account, but it’s not 2016 anymore.

The hidden way that Republicans will use House probes to protect Trump.

Republicans will investigate the border, Hunter Biden, the IRS, Hunter Biden, the Justice Department and Hunter Biden.

Above all, Republicans seem determined to avoid telling Trump voters the truth.

An ill-fated challenge to Mitch McConnell based on illusions about what the public wants.

The senator-elect outperformed Joe Biden in some of Pennsylvania's Trumpiest counties.

It's unclear who the party's rebels are and who the establishment is.

Cheney's strategy to defeat pro-Trump MAGA candidates is showing surprising success.

There's another elephant in the room that Republicans don't want to talk about.