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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump’s Game of Chicken
The president has finally settled on his impeachment strategy.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Impeachment for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Thanks to a coming media storm, our 45th president is now inextricably linked to impeachment, whether he survives it or not.
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Mark Wilson / Win McNamee / Rick Wilking ... How to Survive Impeachment
Former staffers reflect on keeping a besieged administration from falling apart during a scandal.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Trump’s Attacks on California Are Shortsighted
The rest of the country has historically followed the Golden State’s lead—whether the president likes it or not.
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Win McNamee / Getty Adam Schiff’s Last Laugh (For Now)
The House Intelligence Committee chairman has spent months illuminating Trump’s alleged misdeeds with little result. Perhaps that’s about to change.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Crime-Bill Debate Shows How Short Americans’ Memories Are
In hindsight, complicated policy conversations get flattened into stark shades of right and wrong.
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Erik Kabik / MediaPunch / IPX / AP Did Bill Clinton See This Coming?
On his 73rd birthday, the former MVP of the Democratic Party has been sidelined—perhaps for good.
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Christy Bowe / Corbis / Getty Democrats of All Ages Agree on Nothing
How did Democratic Party icons like Barack Obama come to symbolize all the problems of yore?
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Walter McBride / Contributor The Man Who Transformed Broadway
The legendary producer Hal Prince prevailed through changing tastes and times, and helped pioneer the creation of the “concept musical.”
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Maveric Pictures / Mike Blake / Kamil Krzaczynski ... Democrats Search for Their Own ‘Make America Great Again’
Top candidates such as Elizabeth Warren tried to avoid wonky policy proposals and focus on big, sweeping messages last night.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Robert Mueller and the Tyranny of ‘Optics’
The commentariat’s focus on performance over substance is the kryptonite of the modern media age.
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Patrick Semansky / AP / Katie Martin / ... Adam Schiff Is Back From the Wilderness
The House Intelligence Committee chairman opens up about the Mueller investigation.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Trump’s Greatest Contribution to American Politics
The fight on the House floor about Trump’s racist tweets illustrates, yet again, how singularly unprepared Washington is for a president like him.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Living in California Is Living on the Edge
For residents, the recent earthquakes are a reminder that the state is always poised on the brink of disaster.
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Andy Clark / Reuters We’re All Living in the World Ross Perot Made
The Texas billionaire promised voters they could take their country back, showing candidates how to ride the waves of voter anger that still roil American politics.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Nobody Knows What to Do About L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis
Ahead of the first presidential debates, the nationwide squeeze on affordable housing has barely registered on the campaign trail.
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Henry Griffin / AP The Old Senate Is Hardwired Into Joe Biden
The body he was elected to in 1972 required even the bitterest rivals to maintain a veneer of civility. But the country has long moved on from that brand of politics.
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Hillery Smith Garrison / AP What Nancy Pelosi Learned From the Clinton Impeachment
Interviews with the House speaker’s old friends and colleagues offer a window into her reluctance to pull the pin on a political grenade.
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Courtesy of Tina Whatcott Echeverria What Keeps Hollywood’s Oldest Restaurant Running
One hundred years after it first opened, the Musso & Frank Grill is mixing the old and the new with verve.
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Associated Press Doris Day, the People’s Actor
The late film icon’s ordinariness was most extraordinary, and the secret of her success.
