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Here are Democrats’ options in the speakership meltdown

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sept. 12 at the Capitol. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 4 min ...

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Senate Democrats must enact rules changes. Comity is long gone.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Sept. 20 at the Capitol. (Elizabeth Frantz for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share ...

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Republicans (rightly) panic. Good luck finding a viable alternative.

Former vice president Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy at an Aug. 23 debate in Milwaukee. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) ...

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Republicans reach a new low with shutdown shenanigans

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) attends a House Committee on Rules meeting regarding government spending legislation at the Capitol on Sept. 22. (Elizabeth...

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Sen. Bob Casey is no shrinking violet

Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. in 2020. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

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American Jews take a new tone with Israel

Pro-Israel demonstrators wave Israeli flags as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Friday. (Diane...

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Detroit and Hollywood have more in common than you might think

Auto workers picket outside a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Mich., on Sept. 15. (Valaurian Waller for The Washington Post) Listen 6...

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Democrats need to shove Menendez off the stage

Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) at the U.S. Capitol ahead of a closed-door meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sept. 21. (Tom Brenner...

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The hostage rescue was worth it

Roger Carstens, right, U.S. special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, greets Americans released in a prisoner swap deal between the United...

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Jack Smith and Fani Willis have a secret weapon: Donald Trump

This exhibit from video released by the House Jan. 6 select committee shows then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Jan. 6, 2021. (House...

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The presidential libraries’ moral fog dampens the defense of democracy

Former presidents and first ladies watch as President Biden participates in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Jan. 20, 2021....

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The ‘replace Kamala Harris’ chatter is off-base. And futile.

Vice President Harris in D.C. on June 23. (Michael A. McCoy for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on...

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Mitt Romney and me

Sen. Mitt Romney. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 6 min Share Comment on this story Comment ...

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The chickens come home to roost for Republicans

Abortion-rights protesters at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, on June 24, 2022. (Megan Jelinger/Reuters) Share Comment on this story...

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A historic court hearing in Israel might cause a constitutional crisis

The Supreme Court of Israel, including its president, Esther Hayut, center, assembled Sept. 12 to hear petitions against the reasonableness standard...

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Trump and his cronies underestimated Fani Willis

Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani T. Willis on Sept. 8 at the Fulton County Government Center in Atlanta. (John Bazemore/AP) ...

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Mark Meadows’s failed removal spells trouble for Trump’s defense

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on April 22, 2020, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) ...

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I don’t write about polls. You shouldn’t bother with them, either.

Voters cast ballots on Nov. 3, 2020, in New York. (Holly Pickett for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share ...

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Republican voting suppressors should get tired of losing

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican candidate for president, speaks during a campaign event in Rochester, N.H., on July 31. (Charles Krupa/AP) ...

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Wisconsin GOP entertains a constitutional crisis. Again.

Janet Protasiewicz speaks after being sworn in on Aug. 1 as a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice in Madison, Wis. (Morry Gash/AP) Listen...

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American amnesia: an interview with Robert P. Jones

A sign marking the site where Emmett Till's body was recovered in Mississippi is displayed at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in...

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What responsible media coverage in the Trump era would look like

Members of the media gathered outside the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta on Aug. 23. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Share ...

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Mark Meadows paints himself into a corner

Mark Meadows speaks to the press in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill on Aug. 22, 2020. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...

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How secretaries of state could keep Trump off the ballot

The Supreme Court building in December 2022. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Share Comment on...

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Eastman’s defense is shattered in state bar proceeding

Lawyer John Eastman is seen on video as the Jan. 6 select committee holds a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 21, 2022. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington...

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Another harebrained idea from Kenneth Chesebro

Kenneth Chesebro is shown in a booking mug from the Fulton County, Ga., Sheriff's Office. (Fulton County Sheriff's Office/AP) Listen 5...

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The time to stop Trump’s nomination is now

Voters in Sterling Heights, Mich., line up for absentee early voting on Oct. 29, 2020. (David Goldman/AP) Share Comment on this...

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Biden goes positive. Can voters handle it?

President Biden greets guests after an Aug. 15 speech in Milwaukee. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Listen 5 min Share ...

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Who’s leading the fight against MAGA? Women.

An abortion rights protest in Columbus, Ohio, on June 24, 2022. (Megan Jelinger/Reuters) Listen 5 min Share Comment...

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Trump’s kid-glove treatment highlights an unequal justice system

The Fulton County Jail in Atlanta last week. (Christian Monterrosa/AFP via Getty Images) Listen 4 min Share Comment...

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Why Trump’s Georgia case likely can’t be removed to federal court

Judge Scott F. McAfee of the Superior Court of Fulton County in Georgia. (Superior Court of Fulton County) Listen 7 min ...

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The RNC’s debate rules give four-times-indicted Trump cover

Fulton County Court Clerk Che Alexander, left, delivered a grand jury indictment of former president Donald Trump to Superior Court Judge Robert...

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Fani Willis puts violence front and center

Former Georgia election worker Wandrea ArShaye “Shaye” Moss, foreground, and her mother, Ruby Freeman, at a House Jan. 6 hearing last year. (Jabin...

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The federal and Georgia indictments of Trump are two halves of the same picture

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney receives documents on Aug. 14 in Atlanta. (Megan Varner/Getty Images) Listen 4 min ...

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With passionate case against MAGA, Harris comes into her own

Vice President Harris on Aug. 2 at the White House. (Kevin Wurm/Reuters) Listen 5 min Share Comment on this story ...

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Judge Chutkan blows the whistle on Trump’s stay-out-of-jail plan

Protesters gather outside the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in D.C. on Aug. 3 before former president Donald Trump's arraignment. (Jim Lo...

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Don’t expect a Saudi-Israel deal soon, or maybe ever

With the Dome of the Rock shrine in the background, U.S. flags fly on July 12, 2022, ahead of a visit to Jerusalem by President Biden. (Mahmoud...

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Focus on the big things: prosperity and democracy

Supporters and opponents of a GOP-backed measure that would make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution packed the statehouse rotunda May 10 in...

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A tenacious prosecutor investigating Trump risks undoing her good work

Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani T. Willis in Atlanta in September. (David Walter Banks for The Washington Post) Listen 6...

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Trump’s far-fetched defenses aren’t actually aimed at the courtroom

A courtroom sketch of former president Donald Trump between his attorneys, Todd Blanche and John Lauro, as he faces charges last Thursday. (Jane...

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A new memo shows how Democrats plan to beat vulnerable Republicans

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) arrives in the House chamber on July 19 on Capitol Hill. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Listen 5 min ...

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Pence takes on two unlikely roles after Trump indictment

Former vice president Mike Pence on July 20 in Meredith, N.H. (Cheryl Senter for The Washington Post) Listen 5 min Comment on...

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The GOP’s race problem goes well beyond DeSantis

Demonstrators in Tallahassee in February protest a plan by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to eliminate Advanced Placement courses on African American...

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Trump’s latest indictment makes No Labels even more outlandish

Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman (R), left, and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) after co-headlining a No Labels event on July 17 in Manchester, N.H....

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Trump indicted for Jan. 6. At last.

Special counsel Jack Smith in June. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post) Listen 6 min Comment on this story Comment ...

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Without a recession to exploit, the GOP has lost economic coherence

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell's July 26 news conference displayed on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Seth Wenig/AP) ...

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Two women — Democrats, centrists, national security experts — aim higher

Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) at an Oct. 25 campaign event in Dumfries, Va. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Listen 4 min Comment on...

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Biden is diversifying the bench. But he needs more seats to fill.

A Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March 2022. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) ...

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Keep your eyes on Ohio. Then watch Florida.

Supporters and opponents of a GOP-backed measure that would make it harder to amend the Ohio Constitution gather at the Statehouse on May 10 in...

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Harvard’s legacy of White privilege should end — voluntarily

A sign points the way to the Harvard College Admissions Visitors Center on July 6 in Cambridge, Mass. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Listen 4...

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