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Mike Johnson Has Reached a Dead End

House Speaker Elon Musk

The ghosts of the federal judiciary

The curse of the incumbents continues

Donald Trump’s honeymoon has finally arrived

R&R: Debunked theories and unsolved mysteries

Will 2025 be a year of bipartisanship?

Ro Khanna Wants Democrats to be the Party of Reform

A trip to the legislative graveyard

I’m officially a credentialed journalist.

Assad’s fall opens power vacuum in Syria

R&R: Butterfly effect

Make Functioning Government Sexy Again

America’s Gerontocracy is Almost Over

The hidden divisions within the Supreme Court

Kash Patel’s Enemies List

All In The Family

A quick guide to Trump’s new tariffs

12 thoughts about the Trump Cabinet

R&R: Hinge moment

Congress did more than bathrooms this week

What Trump can — and can’t — do as president

Can Trump run for a third term?

Prime Minister Trump

Biden’s major shift on Ukraine

R&R: What I’m reading

A MAGA Cabinet, if you can confirm it

The cognitive dissonance of presidential transitions

Trump makes his riskiest pick yet

How close was the 2024 election?

R&R: Blame game

Trump names his right-hand woman

A skeleton key that explains the 2024 result

Donald Trump’s extraordinary comeback

How to watch Election Night like a pro

What are presidents for?

R&R: In defense of undecided voters

Where they stand: Trump and Harris on education

Where they stand: Trump and Harris on health care

Where they stand: Trump and Harris on energy and climate

Where they stand: Trump and Harris on the economy

Where they stand: Trump and Harris on immigration

R&R: The scariest thing I read this week

The politics of apology

Why Harris’ fascism charges might not land with voters

Early vote data won’t tell you who’s winning

Why [Insert Candidate] Won

Slight Trump gains in the polls

R&R: Election anxiety

What Sinwar’s death means for the war in Gaza

Kamala Harris revives the Biden playbook

Why is Trump campaigning in blue states?

Donald Trump is coming for the bro vote

R&R: Atonement

Exploring one of history’s great what-ifs

Sleeper races to watch

America stares down a misinformation hurricane

Kamala Harris’ new media strategy is very old

What the Supreme Court has in store

R&R: Will there be an October surprise?

The crisis facing American evangelicalism

New details on Trump and January 6th

12 thoughts on the Vance/Walz debate

It’s time for the veeps

Democrats have money to burn

R&R: What I’m reading

Two people who inspire me

The Ankara of America

“The West Wing” at the White House

America has never dangled on a knife’s edge for this long

The Republican Party is comfortable with losing

R&R: A menacing background noise

Congress got a lot done this week

What the Fed’s rate cuts mean for the election

Kamala Harris has done something impressive

VIDEO: Will Trump debate again?

Two weeks from a shutdown

The era of close shaves continues

R&R: Going for a spin

To do more, Congress needs to know more

What Trump didn’t say at the debate

How Harris got under Trump’s skin

The tasks facing Harris and Trump tonight

Meet me after the debate?

The question I get asked most often

R&R: Why you’re probably weird

Shark attacks? Congress has a plan for that.

How Harris raised the stakes for herself

Bernie-Trump voters are back

Pay attention to the courts

Six factors for the final sprint

R&R: Behind the scenes at the DNC

The Democratic Party has remade itself

The moments that have broken through at the DNC

Unity by addition

Biden passes the torch

Going live tonight!

All roads lead to Chicago

R&R: On my way to Chicago

One Trump comment amid the torrent

The awkward Biden-Harris dance

Revenge of the Generic Democrat

What I’d ask Donald Trump and Kamala Harris

All eyes on Iran

R&R: Theories of attention

Get ready to debate

Trump tries to wrest attention back

12 thoughts about Tim Walz

A high-profile St. Louis primary

Harris’ first big decision

R&R: The big mo

This week in governance

Trump’s insult tour

How Kamala Harris took over TikTok

Supreme Court reform is possible

The Harris honeymoon

R&R: 100 days to go

Five acts of bipartisanship this week

The new 2024 campaign takes shape

Revisiting 50 years of American stumbles in the Middle East

Who will be Kamala’s running mate?

Biden’s out. What now?

R&R: Unity and isolation

Is this Biden’s LBJ moment?

Weeks where decades happen

Joe Biden’s case of epistemic closure

Trump’s confidence play

Where both parties go from here

An era of close shaves

American prisons are a mess. Congress just passed a fix.

How Biden lost the last two weeks

Can Congress lock people up?

Breaking down the 2024 GOP platform

I went down a YouTube rabbit hole...

R&R: What it’s like inside the Supreme Court

This is not going in the direction Biden wants

I was inside the Supreme Court yesterday. It got tense.

The Biden campaign is in denial

R&R: The waiting game

Let the Democratic panic begin

Join my live debate chat

How tonight’s debate will break the mold

How Bowman lost the Jewish vote

The most expensive House primary in history

Your guide to Trump’s VP shortlist

R&R: The calm before the storm

Congress passed a clean energy bill and no one noticed

Trump, Biden prep for high-stakes debate

Biden-Netanyahu tensions return

A key primary splitting the MAGA movement

How much do campaigns matter?

R&R: The week Trump cemented his GOP takeover

Eight things you missed that Congress did this week

A new chapter for Wake Up To Politics

A Biden family split on gun rights

ChatGPT is a Romney-Biden voter

My attempt to solve a nagging Trump paradox

What Washington got done this week

Ignore the crosstabs

The Biden age questions return

The global patterns behind Biden’s immigration pivot

Biden flips the script on Bibi

All your Trump conviction questions, answered

Waiting on the jury

Was American politics ever normal?

If no one can watch a trial, does it make a noise?

The truth about Gen Z

What Washington got done this week

MTG on an island

How 2024 is changing what we thought we knew about politics

Whiplash in the Middle East

Christmas comes early at the Capitol

20 problems, 20 solutions from this week in Washington

How well does Congress align with the country?

Watch who Trump hires, not what he says

Ceasefire negotiations show glimmers of hope

How big a story are the campus protests?

Your guide to a blizzard of Biden actions

Breaking down Trump’s immunity case

This week at SCOTUS: Abortion, housing, Starbucks, and Trump

The presidential race is — and always has been — tied

The week fluidity returned to Congress

How the speakership has changed Mike Johnson

Johnson, Greene, and the Republican identity crisis

January 6th arrives at the Supreme Court

Trump on trial

“Senators are people too”: Inside the bipartisan data privacy push

How to get Congress moving again

Kevin McCarthy’s Trumpworld tryout

Keep calm and (two) party on

Season of bipartisanship

Was this Biden’s “come to Jesus” moment?

Nebraska’s Electoral College ploy is nothing new

Trump’s policy-free campaign

The RFK Jr. ticket

Abortion returns to the Supreme Court

Does Mike Johnson want a deal?

Asbestos, AIDS, and Afghan translators

Diving through 40 years of American political history

Trump’s strength is also his kryptonite

No Labels is running out of options

Government by stopgap

Bipartisanship: not just for TikTok!

Presidents should be held to a higher standard

Trump’s anti-pivot

The chemistry and physics of Congress

“Secret Congress” shouldn’t be a secret

The end of the McConnell era

What the Michigan results tell us

Biden vs. uncommitted

Maybe we’re not as divided as we think

6 things the government did this week

Does Biden need to drop the script?

A look at the calendar

How Trump’s isolationism is (and isn’t) unique

Dysfunction is a choice

Nukes in space?

Mailbag edition

Trump’s GOP wrestles over America’s place in the world

Should Democrats ditch Biden?

What if Donald Trump was Cenk Uygur?

Four questions driving Trump’s day at court

House GOP in chaos (again)

Trump’s policy agenda is unpopular. It’s also winning.

The supply and demand of bipartisan compromise

Haley’s tough road ahead

Breaking down the bipartisan tax deal

Make Congress Relevant Again

Trump’s four fronts

14 things the government did this week

“Yes, we want complete and total upheaval”

Can we say “presumptive” yet?

Biden, Bibi, and the day after

Ron DeSantis missed his window

20 things the government did this week

Why Biden needs a border deal

The threat of the Haley voters

Will the reality of Trump’s return sink in now?

What’s at stake in the Iowa caucuses

12 things Washington did this week

Mike Johnson’s honeymoon is over

What we know about Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization

Courtroom campaigning

A lot can change in a year