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Barry Thumma / AP Why Democrats Ditched the Hyde Amendment
There used to be a middle ground in the national conversation on abortion. Not anymore.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Why Pro-impeachment Democrats Are Still Siding With Pelosi
They might be calling for an inquiry on Twitter and MSNBC, but they don’t plan to publicly challenge the speaker.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Rank and File Are Starting to Defy Pelosi on Impeachment
The shift in attitudes suggests that more House members are viewing the party’s current investigative strategy as ineffective.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Moderate House Women Who Want Voters to Know They Exist Too
Centrism is notoriously unsexy, even if it’s pervasive within the Democratic Party.
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Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images The Democratic Party Just Ticked Off Its Youngest Organizers
In an attempt to protect the House majority, the DCCC may have compromised its relationship with some of the party’s most loyal activists, the College Democrats.
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Jared Soares Can a Rust Belt Yogi Save the Democratic Party?
While Democrats debate which voters to prioritize in 2020, Representative Tim Ryan, a potential presidential candidate, argues that they don’t have to choose.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Fight Over Ilhan Omar Is a Fight Over the Identity of the Democratic Party
A House vote on bigotry underscored powerful changes in the party’s coalition, including among young Muslims.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Joe Crowley Just Played Into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Hands
Since the start of her campaign, the freshman Democrat has railed against special interests. Now the lawmaker she defeated is becoming a lobbyist.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Trump Isn’t Sweating a Shutdown This Time
The president says he doesn’t like Congress’s border-funding deal. But he’ll probably sign it anyway.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ilhan Omar Just Made It Harder to Have a Nuanced Debate About Israel
The Minnesota congresswoman has given credence to caricatures of critics of Israel.
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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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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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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Congress Just Wants to Be Left Alone
As House and Senate lawmakers begin their border-security talks, they’ve managed to agree on at least one thing.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters There’s a Way for Democrats to Sue Trump—Thanks to the Republicans
A lawsuit to block the border wall could go the route the House GOP took in 2014 to challenge Obamacare.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Most Remarkable Thing About Trump's Proposed National Emergency
With his solution to the border-wall impasse, the president seems to be working within the boundaries of law—revealing the massive power of the American executive.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Shutdown Is Making Senate Republicans Squirm
As President Trump descends on the border Thursday to further make his case for a wall, back home in Washington the impasse continues.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Trumpification of Political Discourse
Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib may have delighted the far-left with her coarse words for the president—but she’s also mirroring his style.
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Jeff Roberson / AP What Claire McCaskill's Exit Interview Reveals About the Democratic Party
A recent New York Times interview with the outgoing Missouri senator helps illustrate one of the central dilemmas facing her compatriots.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters House Democrats Don't Know What to Make of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Staffers and aides to party leadership say they love her enthusiasm. But they’re worried her approach will threaten caucus unity.
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Jewel Samad / AP There’s a Better Way to Elect House Members
Representative Don Beyer of Virginia has proposed a plan for ranked-choice voting that would make the U.S. House less partisan and more representative for all.
