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Back to SearchMarch 14, 2025: Schumer giveth and Schumer taketh away
House Republicans are one step closer to passing their continuing resolution to fund the government, now that they have overcome the roadblock that i…
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March 13, 2025: A (way too early) look at 2028
President Donald Trump has only been in office for a month and a half, but 2028 is already on the minds of Democrats in Washington, and the road to t…
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March 12, 2025: Johnson gets a win and market losses mount
Market volatility is the talk of Washington as the White House issues (and, in some cases, walks back) whiplash-inducing tariff threats. And as the e…
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March 11, 2025: What counts as free speech in Trump’s America?
What precisely are the limits of free speech in Donald Trump’s America? That question is at the heart of the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia Unive…
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March 10, 2025: House GOP scrambles to avoid a shutdown
Two facts are behind the day’s biggest story on Capitol Hill. One, we’re just five days away from a government shutdown. Two, the House GOP’s so-call…
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March 7, 2025: Capitol Hill confidential
It’s the worst-kept secret in Washington: Being in Congress isn’t as glamorous as it seems from the outside. But what is life really like on Capitol …
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March 6, 2025: Is Trump’s trade war an own goal?
President Donald Trump’s tariff regime is blooming before our eyes. That may delight his MAGA base, but it’s causing agita in the broader electorate,…
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March 5, 2025: Trump doubles down
In his joint address to Congress last night, President Donald Trump gave a red-meat speech that lauded his culture war victories, denigrated his poli…
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March 4, 2025: What to expect from Trump’s joint address
This evening, President Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress for the first time in his second term in the White House. After a whirl…
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March 3, 2025: Is DOGE overshadowing Trump?
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency project has become the center of President Trump’s domestic agenda, with a lot of political capital b…
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