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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Watch What’s Happening in Red States
In states where Republicans control the legislature, American life is rapidly changing.
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Courtney Pedroza / Getty Democrats Are Running Out of Time
Voting-rights advocates are scared that the White House isn’t taking Republican threats to the ballot seriously enough.
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Joseph Prezioso / AFP /Getty Don’t Sleep on Asian American Voters
The bloc’s power is growing fast. That could be bad news for the GOP.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic / Getty The Trouble With the Gavin Newsom Recall
The California law that gives voters the power to remove a sitting governor doesn’t make sense in an era of unrelenting partisan conflict.
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Alex Wong / Thomas D. Mcavoy / The … Bidenomics Really Is Something New
The president is willing to take on political fights that Obama and Clinton considered unwise, if not unwinnable. Will that strategy pay off?
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Jim Watson / Getty / The Atlantic Can Democrats Avoid a Wipeout in 2022?
Biden’s plan: Go big or go home.
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Jensen Walker / Getty The New Swing Voters
Neither party should feel confident about how Latinos are going to vote in 2024.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The GOP Is Voting Against Its Base
Republicans are making a risky bet by opposing Biden’s infrastructure plan.
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CBS / Getty The Show That Changed Television Forever
All in the Family was the first program to genuinely reckon with the cultural upheaval of 1960s America. TV would never be the same.
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Mark Harris / Getty / The Atlantic The Biden Agenda Doesn’t Run Through Washington
How the president can partner directly with America’s biggest cities and suburbs—even in the reddest states
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Mandel Ngan / Getty / The Atlantic The Biggest Thing Kamala Harris Could Do This Year
The voting-rights cause needs a prominent leader who can draw national attention to Republican suppression efforts.
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The Atlantic Democrats’ Only Chance to Stop the GOP Assault on Voting Rights
If the party doesn’t pass new protections, it could lose the House, Senate, and White House within the next four years.
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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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