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The Atlantic Biden’s State of the Union Did Something New
The president took a tired form and found a way to make it fresh.
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Saul Loeb / Getty This Is No Time for Protectionism
In his State of the Union address, President Biden embraced one of Trump’s worst ideas.
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The Atlantic; Saul Loeb / Getty; Win McNamee … What Biden’s State of the Union Speech Was For
Few presidents have come into a State of the Union address needing a second wind as badly as Joe Biden did last night.
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Saul Loeb / Reuters Biden Seizes the Center
In his first State of the Union address, the president sought to rescue his dismal approval ratings by avoiding stark partisanship.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Republicans Are Trying to Send a Message
By picking Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to give their State of the Union response, Republicans hoped to show voters that some in the party just want to keep schools open, lower taxes, and stop teachers from talking about critical race theory.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty; … Biden’s State of the Union Audience of One
By pivoting to deficit reduction, the president is sending a signal to Senator Joe Manchin.
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The Atlantic; Sasha Mordovets / Getty Vladimir Putin United America
At the State of the Union, Joe Biden can look abroad and find a popular cause around which he and a surprisingly broad cross section of the public want to rally.
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Jim Watson / Getty Trump’s Biggest Vulnerability
His lies about health care at the State of the Union signal just how weak he is on the issue.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Images Trump Is Defiling His Office
The president deliberately turned the State of the Union into a partisan spectacle—so why are pundits focused on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response?
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Drew Angerer / Getty The State of the Union Was an Elaborate Troll
Trump’s speech turned what’s typically a unifying civic ritual into a glorified campaign rally.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The State of the Union as Spectacle
President Trump delivered an address in which the words were secondary.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Is Walling Off the GOP
The president isn’t able to persuade most Americans to get on board with his immigration agenda.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times via … Some Democrats Actually Liked What They Heard From Trump
High-profile progressives and party leadership panned the president’s calls for unity. But a group of the newest House lawmakers saw an opening.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How the Women of the House Flipped the State of the Union Script
It was the most unexpected moment of an otherwise dully divisive evening: a group of lawmakers taking a speech that wasn’t about them and insisting that in fact it was.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Trump Started His Reelection Campaign Last Night
“He committed to build a wall,” Steve Bannon said. “What’s not to like?”
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Reuters Trump Shows Why He Can’t Be Counted Out
In his State of the Union address, the president returned to the themes he stressed in 2016, reminding Americans why he remains a formidable candidate.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Sees an Opening With Voters on Late-Term Abortion
The president lamented bills that would allow “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” in his State of the Union address.
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Jeff Chiu / AP Stopping HIV Would Require an Entirely Different Trump
The president said he wants to eradicate the virus. That would mean a radical reversal of his policy and rhetoric.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Doubles Down
In his State of the Union address, the president had the option of reaching out. He chose to stay the course.
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Associated Press Stacey Abrams’s New Strategy for Democrats
In her response to the president’s State of the Union address, the former Georgia legislator pushed voting rights to the heart of her party’s agenda.
