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Inside the small waiting room of All Families Healthcare in Whitefish, Montana, beside the reception desk, there’s a side door covered from top to...
One could be forgiven for thinking of Montana as a fully red state. Republicans have won every presidential election there since 1996, with Donald...
Another week, another blockbuster Supreme Court case that could have lasting consequences for American politics: On Tuesday, the nation’s high court...
Spring is a heady season for high school seniors. Many universities require accepted prospective students to commit in early May; graduation typically...
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...
This week, the Florida state Supreme Court issued two rulings with significant ramifications for abortion access in the state. In one decision, the...
This week, after Israeli airstrikes killed seven workers from World Central Kitchen—the globe-trotting food aid organization famous for showing up...
This year, 14 states are providing their own child tax credits, supplementing the credit offered by the federal government. While several have...
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...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of arguments in favor of limiting access to mifepristone, a medication approved long ago by the Food...
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...
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...
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...
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...
President Joe Biden reasserted his support for expanding abortion access in his State of the Union address on Thursday, in an effort to contrast...
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...
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...
Eight years ago, when then–Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell used the power of his office to block consideration of President Barack Obama’s...
On Wednesday, Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth brought forward legislation to protect access to in vitro fertilization, known as IVF, on the Senate...
As members of Congress once again struggle to avert a government shutdown ahead of a looming funding deadline, millions of low-income mothers and...
Last weekend, at the annual Munich Security Conference, dozens of members of Congress faced America’s antsiest allies as they gathered in the...
Last week, the Alabama Supreme Court handed down a ruling that could have devastating repercussions for families hoping to obtain in vitro...
Marc Molinaro arrived in Washington hoping to be a pragmatic lawmaker. Congress had other ideas.
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...
The national security supplemental legislation that included a controversial bill on border and asylum policy—which failed to even scrounge up 60...
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...
It’s almost an understatement to refer to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as a savvy political actor, having long ago cemented his position...
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...
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...
The bipartisan tax policy deal being debated this week in Congress has earned support from an unlikely corner: abortion opponents. Although...
As tensions in the Middle East escalate, some lawmakers are questioning whether the Biden administration can authorize attacks against the Houthi...
The Biden administration has warned that a key nutrition assistance program will face a significant funding shortfall this year, potentially...
Without additional funding, a program providing affordable internet access for low-income Americans could end this spring. Last week, the Federal...
The leaders of the tax-writing committees in Congress announced a $78 billion bipartisan tax policy deal on Tuesday, including an expansion of the...
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...
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...
Two years after the expiration of the expanded child tax credit, a pandemic-era policy that temporarily but dramatically lowered child poverty rates,...
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...
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...
Eons ago, in the fall of 2021, congressional Democrats mulled potential revenue streams for the Build Back Better Act, the multitrillion-dollar...
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...
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...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived in Washington on Tuesday with an unenviable task: Convince members of Congress embroiled in their own...
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,...
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...