Everything’s Coming Up Schumer The Senate majority leader has a “different way of getting things done” that saved Biden’s agenda and maybe their party.
early and often
Aug. 24, 2022
Democrats Are Riding the Backlash to the End of Roe A New York special election is the latest in a string of surprises since the Supreme Court’s ruling, with some candidates outperforming Biden.
early and often
Aug. 24, 2022
Carl Paladino, Buffalo’s Donald Trump, Loses Republican Primary Upstate Republicans reject the state’s most notorious Republican, who has a history of racist comments.
‘Things Will Be Fine’: GOP Insiders Doubt Overturning Roe v. Wade Will Cost Them They don’t seem all that worried the Supreme Court’s decision to end the right to an abortion will come back to haunt them in the midterms.
texas school shooting
May 28, 2022
For Trump and Other NRA Speakers, the Answer to Uvalde Was More Guns The horror of Tuesday’s school shooting in Texas left an impression at the NRA’s annual conference, but it didn’t make a difference.
early and often
May 17, 2022
Madison Cawthorn’s Self-destruction Is Complete The youngest Republican representative in history lost on Tuesday following a series of bizarre scandals.
early and often
May 14, 2022
The Republicans Who Saved Trump After January 6 This Will Not Pass demonstrates how GOP leaders betrayed their conscience in the name of power.
early and often
Apr. 22, 2022
J.D. Vance Explains His Conversion to MAGA Trump’s man in Ohio once called him “America’s Hitler,” but there’s an explanation.
The January 6 Committee Prepares to Go Public Democrat Elaine Luria on the “shocking” details they’ve found so far and how they plan to use televised hearings as soon as next month.
just asking questions
Mar. 3, 2022
Was Ted Cruz Right About Russia? He spent years fighting Putin’s prized pipeline, which Biden allowed to go forward until the war.
Will the Bush Dynasty End Tonight? George P. got into the race against the Texas attorney general with everything going for him — except Trump’s endorsement.
Trump and CPAC Had a Different War on Their Minds Ukraine was mostly a side note at the annual conservative conference, where speakers were mainly vying to be America’s top culture warriors.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Was Surprise Speaker at White-Nationalist Event The congresswoman delivered remarks at the America First Political Action Conference on Friday, shortly after a round of applause for Vladimir Putin.
Will Sinema and Manchin Screw This Up? Nothing may unite Democrats better than putting the first Black woman on the Supreme Court.
The Baseball Hall of Fame Is As Broken As Everything Else in America The moral uncertainty of the steroid era has left the venerable institution in a dark place.
Kyrsten Sinema’s Moment of Infamy The enigmatic Democrat votes for the filibuster and against her party.
What Democrats Hope to Win by Losing They still want to try to move forward on voting-rights legislation, but it’s hard to see past the brick wall of the filibuster.
Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene Speak for the GOP on January 6 Establishment Republicans stay away, leaving the MAGA fringe to play.
It Took Mock Killing AOC for Paul Gosar to Finally Get Punished The Republican has palled around with white nationalists and fomented insurrection, but he was finally censured after going one tweet over the line.
Democrats Release Their Hostages and Give Biden a Win It was ugly, but the House finally passed an infrastructure bill and advanced the president’s prized social-spending bonanza.
GOP Insiders: ‘Joe Biden Was More Relevant in the Race Than Donald Trump’ GOP insiders think their party is cutting loose the baggage of the recent past after winning Virginia.
Biden’s Sacrifice The president finally advances his agenda in Congress, cut by cut.
Anybody Can Be Joe Manchin Right Now A clutch of Democrats threaten to torpedo Biden’s agenda unless he agrees to lower taxes for middle-class blue-staters.
debt default
Oct. 7, 2021
McConnell and Schumer Find a Temporary Solution to a Pretend Crisis The leaders have solved the debate over the looming debt default by kicking the issue a few months down the line.
Biden Backs Progressives Amid Capitol Hill Impasse In a meeting with the House Democratic caucus, Biden insisted that passing the infrastructure bill must be linked to the reconciliation bill.
The Left Is Holding Many Democrats bet progressives would fold ahead of a key vote on Thursday, but they instead forced leadership on its heels.
Washington Is Waiting on Manchin and Sinema: Updates Meanwhile, House progressives double down and say they’re willing to kill the infrastructure deal unless their demands on a larger bill are met.
Will Progressives Really Sink Joe Biden’s Agenda? Congressional Democrats’ high-stakes internal standoff is about to come to a head.
The Banality of Bonkers Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book on the transition of power from Trump to Biden offers plenty of new details but little surprise.
The Shocking New Book That Exposes U.S. Lies About Afghanistan At least $19 billion from American taxpayers fell into Taliban hands, and that’s just one of the bombshells in Craig Whitlock’s Afghanistan Papers .
The Elephant in the Room Republicans carefully run for president, not knowing if the last one will, too.
Is Kathy Hochul Ready for This Mess? A political survivor prepares to succeed Cuomo.
Nina Turner Learns the Hard Way That Democrats Like Joe Biden The lefty hopeful blew a race for Congress when it turned into a referendum on her disdain for party leaders.
Donald Trump’s Low-Energy Night in Texas The leader of the Republican Party couldn’t elect his handpicked candidate in a congressional special election.
Top U.S. General Said Trump Preached ‘Gospel of the Führer’ What the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thought of his boss, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters.
Why Republicans Condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene, But Not Paul Gosar One believes in Jewish space lasers. The other is friends with a Holocaust denier.
Kathryn Garcia Surges … Into a Mess Adams’s lead over Garcia is similar to his margin on Tuesday. The main difference now is that there is even less confidence in the process.
Can Eric Adams Hold On to His Lead? What the first results of the mayoral race mean for him and his opponents.
mayor’s race
June 21, 2021
How Kathryn Garcia Campaigned in the Race’s Final Hours She embraced her alliance with Andrew Yang — when she was talking to his voters.
Mayamentum! Why Maya Wiley is surging at the last possible moment.
The Story of How Same-Sex Marriage Went From Fringe to Mainstream Sasha Issenberg on what can be learned from the civil-rights breakthrough of the 21st century.
the city politic
June 8, 2021
20 New Yorkers (From Fran Lebowitz to Ron Kim) On Ranking The Mayoral Candidates Fran Lebowitz, Ron Kim, Chelsea Manning, and more weigh in on the mayoral primary candidates.
Millennial MAGA Moderate Replaces Liz Cheney Elise Stefanik is no archconservative, but her loyalty to Trump was rewarded with a spot in GOP leadership.
Tim Scott Vouches for Republicans on Race The GOP response to Biden was really about the party’s identity after Trump.
Matt Gaetz (R–TV) Scandals haven’t sunk the congressman yet, maybe because he’s more of a media figure than a politician.
Matt Gaetz Gets a Scandal As Wild As Him A sex-trafficking investigation meets an extortion plot involving his father (wearing a wire), $25 million in cash, and an American hostage in Iran.
Now a Democrat Is Accused of Trying to Overturn the Election A losing candidate asks the House to declare her the winner, and Republicans cry hypocrisy.
washington dc
Mar. 14, 2021
The Slow Push to ‘Free the Capitol’ From Its Fencing Two months after the Capitol riot, the political divide inside Congress has made it difficult to address the razor-wire divide outside.
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