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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Disorder in the House
House Democrats will vote on a resolution to condemn the president’s racist tweets. Plus: Can Mark Esper really help steer Trump?
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Trump Tends to His Core Voters
President Trump denied that his tweets—telling several congresswomen of color to go back to the countries “from which they came”—were racist. Plus: a 2020 sleeper issue.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters The Activist Left Already Knows Who It Wants for President
Many of the MSNBC moms and energized youths at the annual Netroots Nation conference have already settled on their top candidate—with a surprising second choice.
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Bryan Woolston / AP Mitch McConnell’s (Un)certain Fate
Amy McGrath will try to do what Beto O’Rourke couldn’t: Remove a high-profile Republican from a deep-red state.
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Robyn Beck / Getty The DNC Army That Could Soon Descend on Swing States
To avoid repeating the errors of 2016, the party is training young people of color to be campaign organizers for the eventual Democratic nominee.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Leah Millis / Reuters / ... The 10 Presidential Candidates Who Support Busing
Many 2020 Democrats agree that school segregation is a significant problem, but not all of them want the federal government to step in.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Consensus on the Census Is …
The Trump administration is still exploring a census citizenship question, despite a Supreme Court ruling last week. Plus: the most important argument for 2020 Democrats.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Giving Tanks
President Trump is harnessing D.C.’s Fourth of July celebrations for his own purposes. Plus: A pediatrician describes her experience treating children at a Border Patrol facility.
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The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Print Deadline
The Trump administration said that 2020 census forms would now be printed without a question about citizenship. Plus: The real turning point for women’s political power.
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Cedar Attanasio / AP ‘Nothing Prepares You for the Inhumanity of It’
At a visit to Border Patrol facilities this week, the freshman congresswoman Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania met weeping women and exchanged notes with detained children.
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Lizzie Gill The Real Turning Point for Women’s Political Power
Female lawmakers needed a critical mass in Congress before they could begin chipping away at the inequalities baked into the nation’s laws.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Crossing the Line
President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to cross the border into North Korea. Plus: A new magazine is laying out a future for conservatives, post-Trump.
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John Locher / AP / Paul Spella / ... Bernie Sanders’s Ideas Dominated the Second Debate
Joe Biden may be the front-runner, but the senator from Vermont set the terms of the conversation.
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Marta Lavandier / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: And Then There Were 10
Tomorrow there will be ... 10 more Democratic 2020 candidates sharing a debate stage. Plus: How a home-goods company got tangled up in the migrant-detention crisis.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Tim Ryan Just Wants to Make a Good Impression Tonight
The 2020 hopeful is hoping to stand out on the debate stage. But he’ll have only a couple of minutes to say something memorable.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Cancel Culture
Bernie Sanders’s new $1.6 trillion debt-cancellation plan is the most expansive yet among 2020 contenders. Plus: There’s trouble in South Bend.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: ‘And That Was My Last Hideous Man.’
President Donald Trump faces a new sexual-assault allegation. Plus: Newspaper archives are filled with Joe Biden’s struggles to explain himself on race and civil rights.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: On This Day in June
It’s Juneteenth. Cory Booker, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others testified about reparations at a House hearing. Plus: Joe Biden faces heat for remarks about two segregationist senators.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Pentagone
Patrick Shanahan withdrew from consideration for secretary of defense. Plus: President Trump is formally announcing his reelection campaign today in—wait, what?
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: DSA What You Want to Say
2020 Democratic candidates sniff at Bernie Sanders’s democratic-socialist ideas. Plus: How will the Green New Deal work? We may have to wait until next year to see.
