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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Russification of the Republican Party
GOP lawmakers used to oppose the president’s embrace of Putin and the Kremlin. Not anymore.
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Brendan Smialowski / AP Will John Roberts Constrain Trump?
Few questions may shape the president’s remaining tenure more than how often the chief justice steps in to limit executive powers.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump’s War on Expertise Is Only Intensifying
But his attacks on career government officials could backfire with an ever more educated electorate.
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The Atlantic Just How Far Will Republicans Go for Trump?
Lawmakers won’t face facts about Ukraine because they’re scared of the base. Yet one reason the president’s support remains so indivisible is that few lawmakers have condemned him.
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Bryan Woolston / AP The Suburban Backlash Against the GOP Is Growing
Donald Trump’s strategy of revving up his rural base may not be worth the cost.
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Cheryl Senter / AP Can Warren Actually Avoid Taxing the Middle Class?
Her Medicare for All plan makes big assumptions about how much money she’ll be able to squeeze from the health-care system.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Nancy Pelosi’s Predictions for Impeachment
The House speaker is concerned about voters’ appetite for a lengthy process: “How much drama can the American people handle?”
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Has No Room for Error in 2020
Changes in the electorate are putting the squeeze on the president.
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Win McNamee / Getty The Eye-Popping Cost of Medicare for All
According to new figures: more than the federal government will spend over the coming decade on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid combined.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters The Swing-District Factor in Impeachment
Vulnerable House Democrats may think they can boost their reelection chances by bucking their party, but that isn’t how recent elections have played out.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Why Trump’s Favorite 2016 Map Should Scare Him
Dirt doesn’t vote.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Risks of Impeachment Are Overblown
The release of an internal whistle-blower complaint about President Trump’s relationship with Ukraine immediately appeared to harden House Democrats’ determination.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump’s War on Blue America
The president’s move to revoke California’s authority to set car-emission standards is part of a broader push to stymie the states that voted against him.
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Carlos Osorio / AP How Pundits May Be Getting Electability All Wrong
Democrats are obsessing over which candidate is most capable of beating Trump. But how voters gauge that is far more complicated than it may seem.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Texas Is Changing—Quickly
The wave of House Republican retirements from the Lone Star State is exciting Democrats who want their party to compete more aggressively there.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters L.A.’s Health-Care Reform Is a Lesson for Democrats
In 2013, Los Angeles County implemented its own version of a “public option.” It’s delivered change, but not the revolution some advocates want.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Abolishing the Filibuster Is Unavoidable for Democrats
Even if the party sweeps Congress and the White House in 2020, the Senate rule would let a faction of the reddest, whitest states stymie its agenda.
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Mike Roemer / AP The Limits of Trump’s White Identity Politics
The president is casting Democrats as the real racists to energize his base, but in doing so he’s hindering his capacity to reach beyond it.
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Carlos Osorio / Paul Vernon / AP / ... Joe Biden Is the Big Winner of the Democrats’ Leftward Shift
In the latest debates, Warren, Sanders, and Harris all vied for the party’s progressives rather than testing the front-runner’s support with moderates.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Will Trump’s Racist Attacks Help Him? Ask Blue-Collar White Women.
His strategy rests on a bet: that these voters will respond just as enthusiastically to his belligerence as working-class white men.
