If Republicans don’t want a bipartisan deal, they can kill the filibuster. So why aren’t they?
Politics
Reporting and analysis on American politics: campaigns, elections, Congress, the White House, and the fight to make our democracy work.
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Good News in a Bad Week
How Erika Kirk, King Charles, and Jimmy Kimmel brought a little relief from the Trump horror story.
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Who Will Save Public Media?
With the Corporation for Public Broadcasting eliminated, public radio and TV face their greatest crisis yet. But philanthropy can and should fill the gap.
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Why I’m Not Optimistic About Democracy in Syria
Early next month, the country is scheduled to hold its first parliamentary elections since the fall of Assad. But the conditions that have long stifled democracy in the Arab world remain firmly in place.
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The Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy Is Bad. Trump’s Is Worse
The president’s decision to threaten mass layoffs of federal workers should prompt Democrats to shift course.
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Mid-Decade Redistricting: Why State Courts Should Be Suspicious
They have good reason to presume unlawful partisanship is at work when a supine statehouse gives in to partisan demands and gerrymanders districts to skew the results.
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Secretary Kennedy Is My Cousin. He Sounds More Like Roy Cohn than His Late Father
Politicians aren’t saints, including my slain uncles, but they all belonged to a time when it mattered to rise above division, find unity in tragedy, and celebrate moral courage.
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Republicans Should Be Apoplectic Over What Trump and Kennedy Are Doing to Tylenol
Conservatives used to hate it with Democrats “picked winners and losers.” What will they say when a Republican president does it?
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The Social Security and Medicare Funding Problems Are Real
Congress keeps making them worse with a budget process that’s broken.
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Surrendering to MAGA Isn’t Just a Broadcast Media Problem
Capitulation is everywhere.
