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The College Freshman Behind Alabama’s New Election Map
One More Time: What Congress Got Done in 2025
My Thirteen Questions for 2026
Has Mike Johnson Lost Control of the House?
Congress is Racing Against the Clock
The Ghosts of Trump’s Early Presidency
Do Scandals Still Matter in the Trump Era?
How Congress Could Eat the Presidency
Trump v. Slaughter Wasn’t About Trump
Has the Democratic Tea Party Arrived?
What I Would Do If I Were Donald Trump
Millions of Americans Mess Up Their Taxes. A New Law Will Help.
Republicans Won in Tennessee. The Results Still Scared Them.
Did Pete Hegseth Give an Illegal Order?
Members of Congress Are Not Enjoying Themselves
Dick Cheney’s Death Brought Trump’s Enemies List to Life
Trump’s GOP Unity is Starting to Fracture
This Century-Old Tool Enabled the Epstein Vote. It’s Having a Renaissance.
The Trump/MTG Break Isn’t Just About the Epstein Files
How do Obamacare Subsidies Work?
The Shutdown’s Over. Now What?
The Republican Defendant Protection Program
How Congress is Helping Veterans
This is How Shutdowns Always End
Who’s Winning the Redistricting Wars?
With Trump’s Tariffs at Stake, Supreme Court Enters an “Upside Down” World
Watching Today’s Elections? Proceed With Caution.
Trump is Right: The Filibuster is Probably Toast
The House Is On An Unprecedented Recess
Four Republican Rebukes of Trump
The Shutdown is About to Get a Lot Worse
How Trump’s Newest Tariffs Could Hurt His Legal Case
What We Know About the Bolton and James Indictments
Trump Has Withdrawn a Record Number of Nominees This Year
How Much Credit Does Trump Deserve for the Gaza Ceasefire?
Wait, Congress Got Something Done During the Shutdown?
Color-Blind or Anti-Racist: The Supreme Court Mulls the Constitution’s Racial Legacy
Democrats Snag Their Top Senate Recruit
All the Ways Trump is Seizing Shutdown Power
Ceasefire, Hostage Deal Takes Effect in Gaza
The Shutdown Isn’t Going How I Expected
More Humpty Dumpty Cases: Trump and the National Guard
Everything You’ve Been Wondering About the Government Shutdown
Trump Prods Israel, Hamas Closer to Potential Peace Deal
Are Democrats Trying to Give Health Care to Illegal Aliens?
Send Me Your Shutdown Questions!
How We Got to a Government Shutdown
A Reader’s Guide to the Comey Indictment
Inside the Gen Z Media Ecosystem
The Most Influential Person in Washington...
Kimmel is back. Humphrey’s Executor is gone.
The White House Office of Justice
Has DC Felt Different With the National Guard?
A Guide to the Free Speech Issues Since the Kirk Assassination
Four Bipartisan Efforts That Could Become Law
Political Violence Shouldn’t Be a Team Sport
Should Democrats Force a Government Shutdown?
We Can’t Let This Be Our Future
Netanyahu and Putin Aren’t Listening to Trump
The Supreme Court Has Two Big Cases Coming Up
A More Typical Presidential Power Grab
Democrats Face a Lose-Lose Decision
How to Reclaim a Politics of Unity
“We have to be disruptive”: Rep. Jake Auchincloss on the future of the Democratic Party
Why Trump Wants to Sue the Senate
Trump’s Month of Grabbing Power
Has Trump Really Ended Six Wars?
Texas Makes the First Move in Redistricting Wars
The Two Types of Democratic Senate Candidates
My Takeaways from the Trump-Zelensky Meeting
The Photo Trump Is Dreaming Of
Is the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling at Risk?
What Donald Trump Could Learn From Teddy Roosevelt
How Can Trump Choose Not to Ban TikTok?
Should You Trust the Next Jobs Report?
When Giants Walked the Halls of Congress
A Reader’s Guide to the Big Beautiful Bill: Part 6
Trump Moves Closer to Prosecuting Political Rivals
A Texas Showdown with National Consequences
Which Party Does Gerrymandering Favor More?
The Looming Legal Risk Facing Trump’s Tariffs
A Reader’s Guide to the Big Beautiful Bill: Part 5
Congress Is Taking On the Housing Crisis. Finally.
A Tweet That Should Scare Israel
Why I Haven’t Covered Epstein Much
A Reader’s Guide to the Big Beautiful Bill: Part 4
The Supreme Court Is The Median Voter
Playing Constitutional Hardball
A Reader’s Guide to the Big Beautiful Bill: Part 3
How Big An Issue for Trump is Jeffrey Epstein?
Where Is The Supreme Court’s Red Line?
MAGA Outrage Over the Epstein Files Grows
A Reader’s Guide to the Big Beautiful Bill: Part 2
Epstein, Ukraine, Rescissions: What to Watch This Week
Five Days with an Anxious Elite
A Reader’s Guide to the Big Beautiful Bill, Part 1
Is Trump Out of the Loop, Again?
Bibi, Elon, Tariffs: What To Watch This Week
Congress’ Independence Day Gift to Trump
Do Democrats Need Their Own Trump?
The Senate passed the GOP megabill. Now what?
What If... Trump Had Won in 2020?
The Most Powerful Woman in Washington
The Fun Factor in American Politics
Trump Called the Ayatollah’s Bluff
Your Questions on the Iran Bombing, Answered.
Musk Won’t Beat Trump at His Own Game
How Well Do Voters Know the Big Beautiful Bill?
Maybe Both Parties Are About to Embrace the Separation of Powers
What if Donald Trump was Prime Minister?
Would the GOP Budget Stop Judges From Holding Trump in Contempt?
Trump’s Theory of the Presidency is Failing
How Trump is Stalling the Senate’s Most Popular Bill
The 10 Other Migrants Allegedly Wrongfully Deported by the Trump Administration
We May Never Know the Full Truth About Joe Biden
What Else Washington Got Done This Week
The “Big Beautiful Bill” Has Passed the House
The Senate is Inching Towards the End of the Filibuster
The House GOP Has a Trust Problem
The Trump Administration Defends Due Process (For Themselves)
Trump’s Big Ask for the Supreme Court
Why the Republican Megabill Matters
A Bird? A Plane? An Emolument?
Are Trump and Netanyahu Headed for a Break Up?
When The Bully Pulpit Backfires
Have We Learned Our Lesson From Joe Biden?
India, Pakistan move to the brink of conflict
Senate Democrats Keep Getting Lucky
One Weekend, Three Truth Social Posts
My Regret About the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
This week in Congress: Daylight savings, revenge porn, and more
The Myth of the Regretful Trump Voter
The next phase of Trump’s presidency
Who holds elections on a Monday?
What does Trump have against the Ivy League?
Trump’s Most Audacious Move Yet
What Due Process Was Owed to Kilmar Abrego Garcia?
The Congress That Broke Congress
Where is the money to pay El Salvador coming from?
25 Facts About Kilmar Abrego Garcia
A Key Trump Test Could Be Only Days Away
One Book That Will Help You Understand Today’s Politics
How Trump Could Try to Serve a Third Term
What We Learned From “Liberation Week”
Three Ways Trump’s Tariffs Could End
Trump’s Two (Partial) Supreme Court Victories
Four Fights That Will Define This Week
So... What Is Trump’s Plan Here?
Nothing Divides America Like Tariffs
All your Trump tariff questions, answered.
A Unified Theory of the Last 24 Hours
Is Donald Trump out of the loop?
How much does Signalgate matter?
How Congress Breaks with Trump in Quiet Ways
The Supreme Court is Less Predictable Than You Think
Republicans Have a Lot of Decisions to Make
The Craziest News Story I Can Remember
The Elite Institutions Caving to Trump
How will Trump’s cases fare at the Supreme Court?
Donald Trump is Just Asking Questions
Alexander Hamilton Saw This Coming
Does Separation of Powers Stop at the Water’s Edge?
The Closest We Have Come to a Constitutional Crisis
My Thoughts on Schumer’s Shutdown Strategy
Schumer folds + What got done this week
How a Shutdown Could Empower Trump
House Quietly Ducks Trump Tariff Vote
Trump Has Forgotten Why He Won
How is Gen Z reacting to Trump 2.0?
Will The Government Shut Down This Week?
Introducing: A New Sunday Mailbag Feature!
What Washington actually did this week
Inside Trump’s Address to Congress
What to Watch for in Trump’s Speech
Trump and Zelensky: How We Got Here
Zombies Are Loose in the Government
Trump Rewrites History as Ukraine War Marks 3rd Anniversary
The Senate Pulled an All-Nighter
Elon Musk’s Two Battles Contradict Themselves
A perfect book for Presidents’ Day
No, Biden didn’t defy the Supreme Court on student loans
How Trump’s Cabinet got through
How to Win Friends and Influence Trump
Will the Trump-Musk relationship last?
Vance, Musk Lay Groundwork for Ignoring Courts
Americans only watch TV for football and politics
An Alternative History of the Trump Era
Does Trump Have a Legislative Agenda?
When I Will Call Something a “Constitutional Crisis”
How Trump’s Second Term Has Already Gone Beyond His First
David Hogg: The Phones Are Dooming Democrats
Mitch McConnell’s Final Chapter
The “organized” Trump White House lasted one week
A case study in congressional impotence
Trump wins his first trade war
Some news that isn’t about Trump
Where Trump does — and doesn’t — have a mandate
Trump quickly tests the limits of his power
Donald Trump’s Four Inaugural Addresses
Will Congress ban itself from trading stocks?
Why It’s Pointless to Guess at Biden’s Legacy
For Biden and Carter, hostage history rhymes
Let the confirmation hearings begin
How Trump Could End Up Saving TikTok
How Congress compares to the country
The Republican Coalition Has Changed
Is Trump serious about buying Greenland?
What we’ve learned from the Trump transition, Part I
Kamala Harris’ Farewell Address