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Whole Hog Politics: Voters tell Trump to back off tariffs 

On the menu: A super Tuesday for race-watchers; GOP special election jitters cost Stefanik U.N. gig; Cuomo in command in NYC mayor race; what a...

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Deportation foes find a story to tell with 'Andrys' 

Abstract legal and procedural questions don’t move public sentiment. Stories of individuals do. What did more to turn American voters so sharply...

25.03.2025 20

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Whole Hog Politics: Musk’s clout is on the ballot in Wisconsin 

On the menu: Dems plumb new poll low, Texas GOP braces for bitter Senate primary, 2026’s tiny House map, Do you even politics, bro?, Un-herd-of...

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Trump’s third-term tease is a lame-duck hedge

What do you figure the chances are that President Trump will try to seek a third term as president?  Not the chances that he would win, or serve, or...

18.03.2025 30

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Whole Hog Politics: Your way-too-early Senate race ratings

On the menu: Tariffs tax approval; Dems jockey for 2028 position; Elon-gated; Biden hemmed in Harris; a wild commute As Senate Democrats agonize over...

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Both sides lose in culture war name games

There’s lots to laugh at in the Pentagon’s political correctness run amok. If the Enola Gay — the B-29 Superfortress that carried the bomb that...

11.03.2025 9

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Whole Hog Politics: Pretty good isn’t good enough for Dems with Jewish voters 

The reaction to Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s official Democratic response to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress this week...

07.03.2025 20

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Separating show and substance as Trump addresses Congress 

It’s been exactly five years and one month since President Trump last addressed a joint session of Congress, and the biggest story of the week back...

04.03.2025 10

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Whole Hog Politics: Republicans look to New Jersey for an off-cycle upset 

When we talk about the “honeymoon phase” of a new administration in Washington, it may be a deep bipartisan swoon or a one-sided affair like we...

28.02.2025 10

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Will the working-class GOP really cut health insurance?

Budget chicanery begets more budget chicanery. About this time in 2010, Democrats were trying every procedural and accounting trick they could conjure...

25.02.2025 10

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Whole Hog Politics: Democrats learn the limits of resistance 

On the menu: COVID-19 at root of Gen Z move to the right; Vivek readies battle for Ohio; Kemp brushes back Greene; A very big fish story It may be...

21.02.2025 1

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Trump keeps score with Gulf of America word games 

Names are tricky things. What was the federal holiday at the start of this week? Most people say “Presidents Day,” but there is no such animal....

18.02.2025 6

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Whole Hog Politics: Inflation clouds hang over budget battle 

ON THE MENU As the 2012 general election was blossoming into full flower, Gallup asked voters who was most to blame for the sorry state of the U.S....

14.02.2025 10

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What’s behind Donald Trump’s plastic straws move

Paper straws are, objectively, the worst. There’s the race against the clock to use them before they turn to mush, the temperature problem — good...

11.02.2025 2

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Whole Hog Politics: An inflection point for the transgender movement 

Never let them tell you that nothing ever changes in politics. In 1996, just 27 percent of American adults believed that the law should recognize...

07.02.2025 10

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Stirewalt: Trump opens the door for a rebalancing of power

The constitutional stress test intensifies. Can the president create an investment fund for federal dollars without congressional authorization?...

04.02.2025 30

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Whole-Hog Politics: Setting a baseline for Trump and the GOP

Welcome to the first, ahem, serving of Whole-Hog Politics, a weekly note that aims to give you a quick and useful overview of the political scene. ...

31.01.2025 10

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Stirewalt: DeepSeek sharpens AI arms race — and MAGA tensions

The revelation that China’s DeepSeek has built a better artificial intelligence (AI) mousetrap than its much richer American counterparts set off a...

28.01.2025 10

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Stirewalt: Will Trump invest his political capital or spend it?

Do you feel like “sunlight is pouring over the entire world?” It probably depends on whether you voted for the man who offered those sentiments...

21.01.2025 7

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