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Dianne Feinstein

  1. power
    Dianne Feinstein, the InstitutionalistShe fought for gun control, civil rights, and abortion access for half a century. Where did it all go wrong?
    By Rebecca Traister
  2. presidential line of succession
    Californians Move Toward Lock on Presidential SuccessionIf Feinstein becomes the next Senate president pro tem, she joins VP Harris and a California House Speaker in the chain of presidential succession.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. the national interest
    Dianne Feinstein’s Confused Nostalgia for the FilibusterThe system worked in the old days, before the filibuster was routine.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. the democrats
    Some Senate Democrats Value Susan Collins’s Friendship More Than PowerCollins does the bidding of plutocrats and pro-lifers. Democrats probably can’t govern unless she loses — but some are rooting for her, anyway.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. green new deal
    Dianne Feinstein Fumbles in Meeting With Young Activists Over Green New DealSenator Feinstein, to climate activists as young as 7 years old: “I was elected by a million vote plurality. And I know what I’m doing.”
    By Matt Stieb
  6. 2018 midterms
    Halloween Polling Update: Both Tricks and Treats for Democrats and RepublicansThere’s good news for Democrats in Kansas and Utah, and for Republicans in North Dakota and Tennessee.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. 2018 midterms
    Republican Hatred for Dianne Feinstein Is Making Her Lefty Opponent CompetitiveKevin de León is probably lucky he doesn’t have the money to let his Republican supporters know how progressive he is.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Republican Voters Are Sitting Out California’s Senate RaceFor the moment, half of California Republicans intend to sit out the Senate race and let Democrats choose between Feinstein and de León.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. California Democrats Endorse de León Over FeinsteinFeinstein remains the favorite, but the party endorsement keeps de León alive, with the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings taking on a new dimension.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. 3 Bombshell Claims in the Leaked Testimony on Trump and RussiaDemocrats just released testimony on the Christopher Steele dossier that Republicans don’t want you to see.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. Feinstein Announces Reelection Bid, Likely to Face PrimaryThere may be a crowded field on her left.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. Senate Building Super-Secret Spy Encyclopedia“There are hundreds of programs we have found … sprinkled all over. Many people in the departments don’t even know [they] are going on.”
    By Jaime Fuller
  13. torture report
    CIA Director Still Won’t Quite Say Torture Was Actually TortureSaid the abuse was the fault of a few bad apples.
    By Katie Zavadski
  14. weird things
    Dianne Feinstein Once Startled a Drone and Made It CrashWeird.
    By Adam Martin
  15. spy games
    Dianne Feinstein Is Pissed About Alleged CIA Agent Ryan Fogle’s ‘Stupid Wig’“To have anybody that represents us wandering around in that stupid wig…”
    By Dan Amira
  16. gun control
    Assault Weapons Ban Probably Isn’t HappeningIt won’t be part of the Senate Democrats’ gun bill.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. pop quiz
    Identify the Gun-Control Quote: Obama, Feinstein, or Reagan?Take the quiz!
    By Dan Amira
  18. gun control
    Feinstein to Introduce Assault Weapons Ban“It can be done,” she said. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  19. politics
    Aurora Shooting Unlikely to Revive the Gun Control DebateLawmakers have mostly avoided speaking about the issue.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  20. civil rites
    RNC Head Says Gay Marriage Isn’t Civil RightsOthers also have opinions. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  21. loose lips
    Julian Assange Arrested in Britain Over Swedish Sex Charges [Updated]More details emerge about Assange’s accusers; Senator Feinstein urges prosecution under the Espionage Act.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  22. early and awful
    Someone Is Killing Off Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, and Frank LautenbergHoax death notices are being e-mailed to news organizations.
    By Dan Amira
  23. gossipmonger
    Bethenny Frankel and the Hot ‘Lipstick Jungle’ Star Went on a ‘Date’Which means either that dude has a real thing for cougars or it was a publicity stunt. That, and more wheat and chaff in our daily gossip roundup.
  24. early and often
    Secret Clinton-Obama Rendezvous Makes Reporters Go BonkersThe ‘Times,’ finding nothing to report about the secret meeting, talks to reporters to see how they feel about looking for it.