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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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Jose Luis Magana / AP Health and Human Services and the Religious-Liberty War
Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services is pitting religious freedom against abortion and LGBTQ rights.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Young Activists Are Done With Loyalty Tests. Donald Trump Is Not.
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is part of a new generation that rejects demands for performances of patriotism, including those related to 9/11.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020
The religious left has gotten giddy about South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, but campaign infrastructure and policy matter more than rhetoric.
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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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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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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How a Lawsuit Could Check Trump's Power Over Security Clearances
Can the president restrict a person’s access to classified material for any reason he wants? It may take a claim from former CIA Director John Brennan to find out.
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Gregory Bull / AP Recording: Hear the Voices of Children Detained at the Border
They scream “Mami” and “Papá” over and over again, as if those are the only words they know.
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Jonathan Ernstl / Reuters Breaching Norms Has a Price
Trump may not care that he is upsetting the safeguards imposed on intelligence agencies in the wake of Watergate—but the damage will prove lasting.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters The End of Trump Won't Be the End of Trumpism
A new book—tweeted out by the president himself—argues that America is in the midst of a populist realignment.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Celebration in Jerusalem, Bloodshed in Gaza
The new American embassy opens during a chaotic and violent week in the Middle East—and it's just the beginning.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Exactly Is Rudy Giuliani's Role?
Brought on to Trump’s legal team to negotiate with Robert Mueller and be a public face, he seems to be acting more broadly as an attorney and strategist, a risky choice.
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Mykola Lazarenko / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / ... Ukraine’s Successful Courtship of Trump
Trump was convinced to sell lethal weapons to Ukraine thanks in part to a savvy charm offensive from Kiev—but the deal may be more bark than bite.
