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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic Why Democrats Are Fighting Over an Obscure D.C. Bureaucrat
Progressives and moderates are split over Michael Barr, the president’s likely nominee to become one of the banking industry’s top regulators.
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Getty / The Atlantic The GOP Cheat Code to Winning Back the House
The stakes for Democrats’ election-reform plan couldn’t be higher.
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Getty How the GOP Surrendered to Extremism
Sixty years ago, many GOP leaders resisted radicals in their ranks. Now they’re not even trying.
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Bebeto Matthews / AP The Decision That Will Define Democrats for a Decade
Will they get rid of the filibuster if it means passing their voting-rights and election-reform agenda?
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Jonathan Ernst / Pool / Getty Trump’s Parting Gift to Joe Biden
Tension within the Republican coalition over the Capitol riot could push GOP-leaning voters into the new president’s camp.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy
The insurrection could spur a federal-government crackdown on white-nationalist groups, as well as strengthen the case for systemic police reform.
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The Atlantic Republicans Confront the Consequences of Their Doomsday Rhetoric
The Capitol riot showed how the ominous tenor of contemporary GOP messaging could be fueling white conservatives’ extremism.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty The Price Republicans Paid in Georgia
President Trump is the reason the GOP will likely lose its Senate majority.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Does Joe Biden Understand the Modern GOP?
The president-elect insists he can work with Republicans. Some fellow Democrats have doubts.
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Michael Nagle / Redux Republicans Are Going Down a Dangerous Road
“In elections going forward, not trying to steal the election will be seen as RINO behavior.”
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Ted Gartland / AP The Supreme Court Is Colliding With a Less-Religious America
Justices’ drive to promote “religious liberty” may only become more intense.
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Getty / The Atlantic Democrats’ Real Liability in the House
Joe Biden’s walloping victory in the popular vote didn’t translate down-ballot.
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Lori Hawkins / Redux The GOP’s Big Self-Own
Republican support for Trump’s election-fraud claims isn’t just damaging to Biden and democracy—it’s damaging to Republicans too.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Democrats’ 2024 Problem Is Already Clear
Joe Biden succeeded in bridging his party’s past and future coalitions—but the challenges of future elections are daunting.
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Getty A Cold War Between Red and Blue America
Nothing about the results so far suggests the election will break the country’s long-term political stalemate.
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Getty / The Atlantic Why the 2020s Could Be as Dangerous as the 1850s
Democrats could win decisively next week. But that still wouldn’t neutralize minority Republican power.
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Samuel Corum / Getty The GOP’s Demographic Doom
Millennials and Gen Z are only a few years away from dominating the electorate.
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Demetrius Freeman / Getty What the Rush to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett Is Really About
The Republican Party wants to shield itself from the growing Democratic coalition.
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Getty / The Atlantic Why Kamala Harris Is Still Showing Up Tonight
The Biden campaign doesn’t want to shift any focus away from President Trump’s mismanagement of the pandemic.
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Getty / The Atlantic Republicans Are Trapped on Preexisting Conditions
Their health-care plans’ lack of protections is a feature, not a bug.
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