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The Supreme Court Could Change How We Think About January 6

Another week, another blockbuster Supreme Court case that could have lasting consequences for American politics: On Tuesday, the nation’s high court...

19.04.2024 5

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The Financial Aid Debacle Affecting Millions of Low-Income Students

Spring is a heady season for high school seniors. Many universities require accepted prospective students to commit in early May; graduation typically...

17.04.2024 3

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Republicans Are Betting That Trump Got His Abortion Position Right

In the two years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, abortion has become a defining campaign issue for Democrats and a thorn in the side...

12.04.2024 4

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Can Abortion Rights Voters Turn Florida Blue?

This week, the Florida state Supreme Court issued two rulings with significant ramifications for abortion access in the state. In one decision, the...

05.04.2024 20

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The Tragic Fallout of the World Central Kitchen Airstrikes

This week, after Israeli airstrikes killed seven workers from World Central Kitchen—the globe-trotting food aid organization famous for showing up...

04.04.2024 4

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The States That Are Stepping Up to Take On Child Poverty

This year, 14 states are providing their own child tax credits, supplementing the credit offered by the federal government. While several have...

03.04.2024 10

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Can States Legally Ban Emergency Abortions?

Dr. Lauren Miller, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, had dreamed of opening an ob-gyn residency in Boise, Idaho, but she felt hindered by a recent...

30.03.2024 6

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The Mifepristone Case Isn’t the Endgame for Abortion Opponents

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of arguments in favor of limiting access to mifepristone, a medication approved long ago by the Food...

29.03.2024 3

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Can This Forgotten Anti-Poverty Progam Be Saved?

Mahagani Jenkins appreciated the extra money—it just wasn’t enough. For an on-and-off six months, she was a participant in the Temporary...

25.03.2024 3

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The Popular, Bipartisan Bills That Can’t Get Passed

Every once in a while, a bipartisan group of lawmakers comes together to support a popular policy that fulfills the interests of industry leaders and...

22.03.2024 10

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Biden’s Next Big Campaign Front: Affordable Housing

The cost of housing has become nigh insurmountable for many Americans, but their struggle can be a politician’s boon—a big structural problem ripe...

19.03.2024 7

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Washington Is Leaving Haiti in Limbo

This week, embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry agreed to resign. He had spent the last week stranded in Puerto Rico, unable to return, as...

15.03.2024 4

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Will Biden’s Pledge to Restore Roe Go Far Enough?

President Joe Biden reasserted his support for expanding abortion access in his State of the Union address on Thursday, in an effort to contrast...

08.03.2024 6

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The White House’s Slow Cease-Fire Shift Is Getting Tepid Reviews

Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris called for an “immediate cease-fire” in Gaza, and urged Israel to allow a greater flow of aid into...

08.03.2024 4

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The Feverish Expectations of Biden’s State of the Union Address

One hundred and eleven years ago, President Woodrow Wilson broke with more than a century of tradition in delivering his annual address to Congress in...

05.03.2024 10

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The Republicans Celebrating the End of Mitch McConnell’s Reign

Eight years ago, when then–Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used the power of his office to block consideration of President Barack Obama’s...

02.03.2024 20

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GOP Senators Say They Support IVF—Just Not a Federal Law to Secure It

On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth brought forward legislation to protect access to in vitro fertilization, known as IVF, on the Senate...

01.03.2024 40

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Republicans Are Planning to Pit Two Anti-Hunger Programs Against Each Other

As members of Congress once again struggle to avert a government shutdown ahead of a looming funding deadline, millions of low-income mothers and...

28.02.2024 3

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Lawmakers Barnstorm Europe to Reassure Allies of U.S. Reliability

Last weekend, at the annual Munich Security Conference, dozens of members of Congress faced America’s antsiest allies as they gathered in the...

24.02.2024 5

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When a Failed Pregnancy Becomes a Crime

Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court handed down a ruling that could have devastating repercussions for families hoping to obtain in vitro...

23.02.2024 4

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Control of the House Could Come Down to This New York Republican

Marc Molinaro arrived in Washington hoping to be a pragmatic lawmaker. Congress had other ideas.

18.02.2024 10

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How Tom Suozzi’s Big Win Upended Washington’s Border Wars

I know it’s tough, but let’s not read too much into this. Yes, Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special House election vacated after the ouster of...

15.02.2024 3

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The Most Cynical Week in Washington

The national security supplemental legislation that included a controversial bill on border and asylum policy—which failed to even scrounge up 60...

09.02.2024 2

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How Trump’s Legal Woes Are Playing With Republican Senators

It’s been a significant week for former President Donald Trump’s various legal entanglements. It was also, by extension, a critical week for the...

09.02.2024 3

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Mitch McConnell Is on a Collision Course With Trump

It’s almost an understatement to refer to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a savvy political actor, having long ago cemented his position...

06.02.2024 2

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Is Washington Writing the Script for the Next Forever War?

INT. U.S. CAPITOL—OUTSIDE THE SENATE CHAMBER ON JANUARY 30, 2024 It’s been a few days since three U.S. service members were killed in a drone...

02.02.2024 4

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Bernie Sanders Reveals His Plan to Make Big Pharma Squirm

Since taking the helm of the committee that oversees the nation’s health care system last year, Senator Bernie Sanders has used his perch to take...

02.02.2024 10

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How Democrats and Anti-Abortion Groups Found Common Ground

The bipartisan tax policy deal being debated this week in Congress has earned support from an unlikely corner: abortion opponents. Although...

31.01.2024 10

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Lawmakers Want Biden to Ask Permission Before Bombing Yemen Indiscriminately

As tensions in the Middle East escalate, some lawmakers are questioning whether the Biden administration can authorize attacks against the Houthi...

26.01.2024 5

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A Divided Congress Is About to Let Poor Families Fall Off a Hunger Cliff

The Biden administration has warned that a key nutrition assistance program will face a significant funding shortfall this year, potentially...

21.01.2024 6

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Millions of Americans Could Soon Be Very Offline

Without additional funding, a program providing affordable internet access for low-income Americans could end this spring. Last week, the Federal...

19.01.2024 6

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What’s in the New Child Tax Credit Proposal?

The leaders of the tax-writing committees in Congress announced a $78 billion bipartisan tax policy deal on Tuesday, including an expansion of the...

17.01.2024 3

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Far-Right Republicans Are Already Talking About Ousting Mike Johnson

It’s June 2023, and the Republican speaker of the House is struggling to appease the hard-line members of his conference, who are angry that he...

12.01.2024 10

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Congress May Finally Pass a Child Tax Credit—but Will It Pay Off for Families?

There’s a lot of news on the child tax credit this week, so I’m focusing the full newsletter on that topic. Rest assured, the key deals dominating...

11.01.2024 6

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The Child Tax Credit Is Back From the Dead

Two years after the expiration of the expanded child tax credit, a pandemic-era policy that temporarily but dramatically lowered child poverty rates,...

10.01.2024 4

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Violent Crime Is Dropping Across the Nation—But Not in Washington, D.C. Here’s Why.

In 2023, most large U.S. cities saw a precipitous drop in the rate of homicides. Despite the public perception of a rise in violent crime in major...

08.01.2024 10

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Could Andy Beshear Be President One Day?

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is an increasingly rare phenomenon: a Democrat able to win a deep-red state not once but twice. Beshear’s November...

28.12.2023 5

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The Billionaires Tax Is Back

Eons ago, in the fall of 2021, congressional Democrats mulled potential revenue streams for the Build Back Better Act, the multitrillion-dollar...

22.12.2023 8

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What Democrats in Congress Think About Biden’s Alarming Young Voter Problem

Democratic nominees for president have long counted on dominating the youth vote to help propel them to victory, and that held true for Joe Biden in...

21.12.2023 2

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Here’s Why Abortion Rights Activists Are Taking Their Fight to the States

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade last year, there has been a scramble in the states to either further limit or...

15.12.2023 4

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy Had a Bad Day on Capitol Hill

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Washington on Tuesday with an unenviable task: Convince members of Congress embroiled in their own...

13.12.2023 5

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Moderate Republicans Are Warming to the Idea of Impeaching Biden

The House is expected to vote next week to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. At first glance, this is a redundant move,...

08.12.2023 6

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As Dysfunction Reigns on Capitol Hill, Lawmakers Head for the Exits

Representative Kevin McCarthy announced on Wednesday that he would step down at the end of the year, roughly two months after he was removed from his...

08.12.2023 9

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Social Security?

01.12.2023 10

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The Reason These Democrats Voted to Save George Santos

01.12.2023 3

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Mike Johnson Repeats Kevin McCarthy’s Mistake: Trying to Govern

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s honeymoon period lasted about as long as an actual honeymoon: a few weeks, at best. Now that Congress has punted its...

01.12.2023 3

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Bernie Sanders Starts an Important Fight in the Democratic Party

In the wake of the terrorist attack by Hamas in October, in which roughly 1,200 Israelis were killed and hundreds taken hostage, the White House,...

21.11.2023 30

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Can Republicans Win Back Abigail Spanberger’s Seat?

With Representative Abigail Spanberger’s announcement that she will not seek another term in Congress, instead opting to run for governor of...

20.11.2023 4

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The Future of Food Insecurity Is in the Hands of an Angry Congress

The continuing resolution to keep the government funded through early next year includes an extension of the farm bill, a massive package of...

17.11.2023 3

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Emotions Are Running Feverishly High in Congress

Congress is a political body of more than 500 people with varying agendas and priorities. As such, its functioning is often influenced by emotion more...

10.11.2023 5

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