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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / … The Knives Come Out for Josh Hawley
The elite conservative world saw the Missouri senator as America’s next great statesman. Instead, he’s revealed uncomfortable truths about the movement.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Newtown’s Congresswoman Takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Representative Jahana Hayes is leading a push to kick Greene off of the House Education Committee. Should Greene be expelled from the House entirely?
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Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc / Getty Betraying Your Church—And Your Party
How Representative Adam Kinzinger, an evangelical Republican, decided to vote for impeachment—and start calling out his church
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Eva Marie Uzcategui Trinkl / Anadolu Agency / … Why You Can’t Just Get Vaccinated at Your Doctor’s Office
Seniors are on waiting lists for vaccines, even as states are supposedly failing to use up all of their allotted doses. Why can’t vaccination happen faster?
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Sarah Silbiger / AFP / GETTY / THE … The Far Right’s Fear of ‘Glowies’
In the aftermath of the January 6 riot, extremists have become obsessed with the federal agents who might lurk among them.
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Win McNamee / Getty How Biden Plans to Beat Republican Obstructionism
History suggests that Joe Biden and the Democrats are going to have a tough two years and a disaster in the midterms. Here’s their plan to avoid that.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Biden Generation’s Last Chance
The country’s future now rests in the hands of a generation that won’t be around to see the outcomes of its decisions.
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Anna Moneymaker / New York Times / Redux What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day
The handover of power was a solemn affair. There was no mistaking the new administration for the old one.
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Tavon Taylor Among the Guardsmen
Blocks from the Capitol, residents and business owners must pass through military checkpoints to go about their day.
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Mark Makela / Getty The Secret Service Is Bracing for Dangerous Times
Any chance of a normal security environment for the president-elect evaporated during the Capitol siege.
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AFP / Getty How a Well-Meaning Health Policy Created California’s Coronavirus Nightmare
The state’s hyperefficient health-care system runs pretty well—unless a pandemic strikes.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Why Trump Suddenly Changed His Tune
What frightened the president into releasing a video calling for calm?
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Win McNamee / Getty A Christian Insurrection
Many of those who mobbed the Capitol on Wednesday claimed to be enacting God’s will.
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Artur Gabdrahmanov / Sputnik / AP How Joe Biden Watched the Capitol Assault
It was a day of chaos in Washington, D.C. But in Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden pulsed with quiet anger.
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Getty / The Atlantic When a Senate Democrat Tried to Challenge an Election
Several Republican members of Congress plan to formally object to the outcome of the 2020 election today. Barbara Boxer objected to Ohio’s results in 2005—but that was different, she insists.
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Getty / The Atlantic Denver Riggleman Has Seen the Future of the Republican Party
Republicans used to think they’d succeed through moderation and inclusion. That’s over.
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Matteo Giuseppe Pani The Dark Reality of Betting Against QAnon
The conspiracy theory has been tied to real-life danger—but before it entered the mainstream, one man stumbled upon Q in a game of political predictions.
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Nick Oxford / Bloomberg / Getty The Christmas Crisis
America needs Christmas cheer more than ever. Maybe next year.
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Craig F. Walker / The Boston Globe / … The Last Days of Loneliness
Long-term-care residents who have been confined to their rooms for months have to wait a bit longer before they can finally receive a vaccine.
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Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Real Reason Americans Aren’t Quarantining
Many states have quarantine requirements for visitors, but only one really enforces them: Hawaii.
