Russell Berman
The Democrat Who Could Lead Trump’s Impeachment Isn’t Sure It’s Warranted
If the House flips, Representative Jerry Nadler would head the committee that could try to oust the president. But he’ll have to be convinced first.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Nancy Pelosi’s Power Move on the State of the Union
President Trump might be able to keep the government closed indefinitely. But the new Democratic speaker can deny him use of the country’s most effective pulpit to make his case to the public.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Why Republicans Finally Moved Against Steve King
Elections have consequences, and the Iowa conservative’s sudden vulnerability back home gave House GOP leaders the permission they needed to act against his latest racist comments.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The President Learns About Separation of Powers
And he doesn’t like it.
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George Frey / Reuters The Impact of the Government Shutdown Is About to Snowball
The consequences will only get more severe after federal workers miss their first paychecks Friday—even as the Trump administration tries, in ways large and small, to mitigate them.
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Nam Y. Huh / AP Why Federal Workers Still Have to Show Up Even If They’re Not Being Paid
The law prohibits public employees from striking, forcing them into what one union leader called “involuntary servitude” during the government shutdown.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Will the Government Ever Reopen?
After a contentious meeting with lawmakers, President Trump said the government could stay closed “for a very long period of time,” and mused about declaring a state of emergency.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters An Awkward Beginning to Democratic Control of the House
The shutdown is undercutting the Democrats’ moment of triumph, muddling their opportunity to drive the national debate on their own terms.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Trump Started 2019 on an Angry, Lonely Note
While the nation celebrated, the president brooded, berated, and tweeted his way through the new year.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Democrats in New York Are Ready to Deploy Their Newfound Power
With its largest governing majority in decades, the party has a plan for an ambitious progressive agenda—if the governor and lawmakers can avoid the infighting that’s stymied them before.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP The Republican Majority's Last Act: A Government Shutdown
There is no agreement in sight between congressional leaders and President Trump.
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Reuters via U.S. Army Much Ado About 2,200 Troops in Syria
The furious backlash to Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces, which included James Mattis’s resignation as defense secretary, stands in stark contrast to its limited military impact.
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Matt York Martha McSally Snags the Ultimate Consolation Prize
The Republican congresswoman will take a seat in the upper chamber alongside the Democrat who defeated her.
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Craig Ruttle / AP ‘Today Is the Day I Am Getting My Freedom Back’
In federal court on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s former lawyer and fixer sought to break free of the president as a judge sentenced him to prison.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Michael Cohen Pays the Price for His ‘Blind Loyalty’ to Trump
The sentencing ended a saga that began with a dramatic FBI raid and led Cohen to implicate the president in criminal misconduct.
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Andrew Harnik / AP A Brawl With the President on Live TV
The two Democratic leaders went to the White House for a negotiation, ended up with a public fight, and left all smiles with a political gift from the president.
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Evan Vucci / AP A Close Reading of Trump’s Friday Tweetstorm
The president unleashed a series of charges, complaints, and conspiracy theories aimed at undercutting a forthcoming report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
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John Hart / Wisconsin State Journal via AP ‘Wisconsin Has Never Seen Anything Like This’
Republicans carried out their plan to strip authority from the incoming Democratic governor, and what was remarkable was how little disagreement there was about why they did it.
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Nick Oxford / Reuters The Republicans’ Midwest ‘Power Grab’
GOP legislators are moving to strip authority from incoming Democrats in Wisconsin and Michigan, taking a page from North Carolina.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP ‘If We Pass Medicare for All, I’m Going to Be Silent as a Lamb’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrives in Congress with a bigger megaphone than any other House freshman. How's she going to use it?
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Democrats Quickly Confront the Limits of Their Power to Stop Trump
The incoming House majority raged against the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. But they’ve discovered there’s not much they can do about it.
