Washington Post: Politics
- Rep. Jayapal has emerged as a forceful leader of House liberals. This week will test what policy priorities she can deliver.
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 03:42 PMRep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) has emerged as the most powerful House liberal by aggressively representing the priorities of her caucus and pushing leaders not to acquiesce to the demands of moderates in politically competitive districts.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Republicans learned to stop worrying and embrace ‘replacement theory’ — by name
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 04:54 PMThey used to talk about it in broad terms — even though the idea was commonly used by racists. Now they're just adopting the label.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Texas GOP lawmakers’ redistricting map protects congressional incumbents while avoiding a new Latino-majority seat
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 07:07 PMLawmakers in the state Senate, making the first move to redraw House maps, chose to strengthen incumbents against future demographic change rather than draw districts that might be more competitive but risky.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A day-by-day guide to Congress’s high-stakes budget week
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 01:04 PMCongress needs to figure out how to keep the government open by midnight Thursday, raise the debt ceiling to avoid an economic catastrophe, pass a bipartisan infrastructure bill and try to vote on Democrats’ major social policy and climate change legislation.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden’s SBA nominee would be the country’s highest-ranking Muslim. The GOP won’t let him get a vote.
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 07:00 AMRepublicans have accused Dilawar Syed, President Biden's nominee as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration, of being anti-Semitic, but Jewish groups have countered that the claims are anti-Musliim.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rep. Liz Cheney says ‘I was wrong’ to have opposed same-sex marriage before
Sunday - 09/26/2021 - 08:28 PMCheney’s 2013 condemnation of same-sex marriage caused a rift with her sister, who is a lesbian. The two have now reconciled, the congresswoman from Wyoming said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Supreme Court observers see trouble ahead as public approval of justices erodes
Sunday - 09/26/2021 - 06:00 AMWith the court about to open one of its potentially most divisive terms in years, a debate rages over whether the nine justices are too political — and too powerful.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apologizes after tearful ‘present’ vote on Israel Iron Dome funding bill
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 08:43 AMHer decision to effectively abstain from the vote has attracted ire from some supporters.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Election fraud, QAnon, Jan. 6: Far-right extremists in Germany read from a pro-Trump script
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 07:00 AMApocalyptic messages circulating ahead of German elections on Sunday import conspiratorial rhetoric from the U.S.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The rise of the gerontocracy
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 05:01 PMGet ready for a lot more Chuck Grassleys.
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- 40 years later, a dwindling band of Iran hostages awaits a promised payment
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 05:57 PMThe 1979 Iran hostage crisis gripped the country and may have cost a president his job. Now the Americans who spent 444 days in captivity and inspired a nation to tie yellow ribbons of support feel abandoned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - President Biden gets a coronavirus vaccine booster shot
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 06:28 PMHe was adhering to new guidance issued last week that recommended extra doses for many who got the immunization more than six months ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How badly unvaccinated Republicans are misinformed, in one stat
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 11:37 AMThe median unvaccinated Republican believes the vaccines have effectively zero efficacy in preventing hospitalizations. This is not the case with unvaccinated Democrats.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 conspiracy theories that remain unproven, despite what you might have heard
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 01:17 PMEfforts to declare conspiracy theories proven by unrelated evidence are having a moment.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Frances ‘Sissy’ Farenthold, lodestar for Texas liberals, dies at 94
Sunday - 09/26/2021 - 07:07 PMShe lost two bids for governor but became a leader among Texas liberals and one of the nation’s most prominent feminists.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 40 years later, a dwindling band of Iran hostages awaits a promised payment
Sunday - 09/26/2021 - 04:53 PMThe 1979 Iran hostage crisis gripped the country and may have cost a president his job. Now the Americans who spent 444 days in captivity and inspired a nation to tie yellow ribbons of support feel abandoned.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 04:04 PMThe colossal hack of Epik, an Internet-services company popular with the far right, has been called the “mother of all data lodes” for extremism researchers. Some of those named in the data have already lost their jobs.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The man behind Texas abortion lawsuit is better known as an anti-tax crusader
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 10:00 AMOscar Stilley, a disbarred lawyer and felon, has a long history of using the courts to test the government.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden defends his social agenda bill, saying the cost will be zero
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 04:15 PMThe president argued the cost of the package will be offset by tax hikes on the wealthy and big corporations. He also counseled patience on the nation’s turmoil, saying “we’re going to be in a very different place” by year’s end.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Biden probably will release information about Trump’s Jan. 6 activities, White House says
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 05:13 PMThe president has concluded "it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege" to block information Congress is seeking about Trump and his aides, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday.
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- The grim reality of a partisan pandemic
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 05:35 PMWe'll probably never know exactly how uneven the effects of the pandemic have been.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - California will now mail ballots to voters in all elections, in permanent extension of pandemic-era practice
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 06:54 PMThe move was long sought by state Democrats who have argued that it will make it easier for residents to take part in future elections.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Partisan hostility has surged, offering a useful political refuge
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 11:23 AMDefending the enemy of your enemy.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New York’s redistricting tests Democratic opposition to gerrymandering
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 06:38 AMThe state, controlled by Democrats, could make up for gerrymandering expected in Republican states if it draws extreme lines — the kind it has railed against in the past.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - After Pearl Harbor and 9/11, Americans came together. Have we lost that capacity?
Monday - 09/27/2021 - 08:00 AMPartisan division and a yawning cultural gulf threaten the nation’s ability to unite in a crisis.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Democrats outside Washington worry party will blow its chance of enacting historic agenda — a failure with grave political conse
Sunday - 09/26/2021 - 06:00 AMWhile many Democrats believe that in the end, party leaders will find a way to pass their ambitious plan, some have started contemplating a nightmare scenario, in which the talks fall apart and Democrats are left explaining to voters who gave them the keys to the car why they couldn’t get it out of neutral.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Harris, assigned to tackle volatile issues, quietly builds a network
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 03:15 PMMembers of both parties have noted that Biden has asked Harris to take on often thankless issues, including abortion and immigration. But her meetings with activists in these areas have helped her to build political connections.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Arizona audit debunks Trump’s false claims, but the poison of misinformation still threatens the electoral process
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 11:08 AMAs other audits continue and the former president continues to claim fraud, GOP leaders refuse to call a halt to his effort to undermine the system
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The question Republicans still can’t really answer on vaccine mandates
Saturday - 09/25/2021 - 08:23 AMRepeatedly, GOP lawmakers have struggled to explain why this vaccine can't be mandated when others are. The upshot: They might just roll back those other ones too.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Harris hires two senior advisers
Friday - 09/24/2021 - 06:30 PMVP brings on experienced political aides at a time when some Democrats feel anxiety about her first months in office.
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