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W.H. takes aim at DeSantis — even as Florida slips away from Dems
And funds from national donor groups have dried up.
'We don’t have to pretend anymore': Greens ready to bail on D.C.
Environmentalists and many of their Democratic allies are preparing to focus on state capitals as the places to press for action on climate change.
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Why haven’t there been more Cassidy Hutchinsons?
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The Supreme Court Just Rolled Democracy Back. You Can Measure How Much.
After last Friday, 14 million more Americans will be living under laws they disagree with. How did we get here?
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‘It Was All Just a Show’: Confessions of a Republican Campaign Hit Man
Tim Miller’s new book reveals the ways he and his fellow GOP operatives poisoned the national discourse and helped enable the rise of Donald Trump.
Soapbox
Opinion | A Bold Plan to Preserve Access to Abortion
Here are four things Biden can do right now.
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Trump Is in Trouble and He Knows It
The two big stories of this week are more closely linked than meets the eye.
Politics
Opinion | A Grand Compromise on Abortion
Unless Congress steps in, a patchwork of state laws will tear the country apart.
Politics
Opinion | Why Are Democrats Letting Republicans Steamroll Them?
For too long, the GOP has busted norms with no consequences.
On the Bench
Opinion | The Supreme Court is Retrenching. States Don’t Have To.
It's a little-appreciated feature of our democracy that the U.S. Constitution only sets a minimum for individual rights — not a maximum.
History Dept.
When the Supreme Court Makes a Mistake
The history of the Supreme Court is replete with outrages and abominations, but they can be tough to overcome.
Fourth Estate
Opinion | The Effing President Gets His Comeuppance
White House insider Cassidy Hutchinson blows the whistle on Trump.
Law and Order
Opinion | What Cassidy Hutchinson Said that Could Prove Trump’s Criminal Undoing
Donald Trump’s determination to lead his armed followers to march on the Capitol demonstrates the state of mind necessary to prove crimes such as incitement and obstruction.
Politics
Opinion | How Democrats Can Win on a Culture-War Issue
It’s time to run again on same-sex marriage.
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Republicans Are Sending Abortion Back to the States. But D.C. Isn’t a State.
The District of Columbia is a Democratic bastion. A GOP-led Congress could ban abortion there.
Republicans are poised to win the House and Senate. Welcome to our Election Forecast.
We rated every race in play in the midterms. Here’s who we think will win.
What Dems can — and might — do in Congress to fight the end of Roe
The party wants to campaign this fall on the Supreme Court's quashing of constitutional abortion rights. Here's how it plans to start on the Hill.
Secret Service: Jan. 6 panel didn’t reach out before Hutchinson’s explosive Trump testimony
The agency says it got no outreach for 10 days before the committee aired testimony about Donald Trump’s behavior in the presidential vehicle Jan. 6.
Andrew Giuliani had the name ID and his famous father. He just didn’t have the votes.
The younger Giuliani was resolute that his father's outsized role in the campaign and his support of Trump didn't hurt his chances.
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Supreme Court handcuffs Biden’s climate efforts
The decision comes amid accumulating warnings from scientists that human-caused climate change is increasing the likelihood of more severe floods, droughts, storms and other calamities in the coming decades.
5 lessons from the NATO summit
Russia and China were not at the just-concluded NATO summit, but they were mentioned often. Here are 5 takeaways from the meeting.
STATES
State lawmakers are shaping the future of abortion. Watch these names.
Legislators were long unable to impose major regulations on abortion. Now, the power to decide when — and whether — abortion should be legal is squarely in their hands.
FDA advisers recommend strain update to Covid-19 boosters ahead of expected fall surge
The advisory committee signaled a preference for the strain composition to target the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants.
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