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Short-Term Excursion

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Emily Kennard
‘Very Complete’

By Kelly Poe
Rules-Based Order

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
UNCONDITIONALLY SURRENDER to the Weekend

By Kate Nocera and Matt Berman
Paying for It

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Wag the Dog

By Kate Nocera and Matt Berman
‘He Had Something in Mind’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Feelings, Based on Facts

By Kate Nocera
Deep in Heart

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Emily Kennard
Shifting Ground

By Kate Nocera
Don’t Say ‘War’?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘Weeks, Rather Than Months’

By Tim Grieve and Kate Nocera
Coalition of the Willing

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
The Good and the Bad

By Kate Nocera and Tim Grieve
War Torn?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Mystery Political Theater

By Kate Nocera
By the Numbers

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Magical Thinking

By Tim Grieve
Longest SOTU Ever

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Thank You for Your Attention to This Matter

By Tim Grieve and Kate Nocera
The State of Things

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Tariffic

By Tim Grieve and Kate Nocera
Snowed In + Shut Down

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
‘An Embarrassment to Their Families’

By Matt Berman
The House GOP’s Candidate Vetter

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Bad Things Happen

By Kate Nocera and Matt Berman
Throwing the Thesaurus at ICE

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Food Fights

By Kate Nocera
Late Night, Relevant Again

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Two Guys Without Shirts

By Tim Grieve

Trump’s ‘Chaotic’ Pardon Process

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Your Lyin’ ICE

By Tim Grieve and Matt Berman
Shutdown Politics, Again

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
‘Pretty Boring Stuff’

By Tim Grieve
The Epstein Messaging Debate

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Gutter Politics

By Tim Grieve
Setback Tuesday

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘I Have Nothing to Hide’

By Tim Grieve
Half Full, Half Empty

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Pardon Me?

By Tim Grieve
God Bless América

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Brett Bachman and Emily Kennard
This Post Is No Longer Available

By Tim Grieve
Fore-closure

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Livin’ on a Prayer

By Tim Grieve
Stress-Testing the Courts

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Democracy Dies in Darkness

By Tim Grieve
Taking Trump Figuratively

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘Back to God and Country — Immediately!’

By Tim Grieve
Funding Deal Done

By Tara Golshan, Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘NO CHANGES’

By Tim Grieve
Gearing Up for a Shutdown Showdown

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Kevin 1, Kevin 2

By Tim Grieve
Minneapolis Hotel Workers Speak

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
We Get Bored at Meetings, Too

By Tim Grieve
The Toothpaste Re-Tubing Challenge

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Streets of Minneapolis

By Tim Grieve
What CBP Told Congress

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Emily Kennard
The Underside of the Bus

By Tim Grieve
‘Not the Soft Target They Thought’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Truth vs. Spin

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard

Just Don’t Call It Ice

By Tim Grieve
Congress Surprises Itself

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘The Memes Will Continue’

By Tim Grieve
Following the Money

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Did Trump Just Blink?

By Tim Grieve
Davos Man

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
An ‘Exciting and Hectic Time’

By Tim Grieve
The Guardrails Are Gone

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Trump Takes It Down a Notch

By Tim Grieve
Threats and Realities

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Iran, Greenland, Venezuela and … Minnesota?

By Tim Grieve
‘Stop Proposing This Populist S---’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘An Unambiguous Response’

By Tim Grieve
Pivot to Prices

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Contempt for Clinton

By Tim Grieve
Classified Concerns

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
The President Is Calling

By Tim Grieve
The Neo-Neoconservative Era

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Many Questions, Few Answers

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
All Eyes on Minneapolis

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Who’s Afraid of Regime Change?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
The Rubio Doctrine

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Americas First

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
The Year in Truth (Social)

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
What Bernie Moreno’s Up To

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Cancellations at the Trump-Kennedy Center

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Careful What You Wish For

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
What Wasn’t Addressed

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Expiration Date

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
‘A Wise Man Sometimes Says Nothing’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan

The MAGA Marijuana Split

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Mixed Day for Dictatorship Predictions

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Health Care-apalooza

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Republicans ‘AstroTurf’ for Crockett

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
‘I Feel Your Pain’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Concepts of a Plan

By Emily Kennard, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
2028 Is the New 2026

By Emily Kennard and Jasmine Wright
Secretary on Defense

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright, Emily Kennard and Tara Golshan
Fighting Amongst Themselves

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
The Specialest Election?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Congress’ December Sprint

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Is Tryptophan MAHA?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Déj-ACA Vu

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright, Emily Kennard and Tara Golshan
A Memorable 72 Hours

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Uncancelable Culture

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
Cruz vs. the White House

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
Well, That Was Easy

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Emily Kennard
Suddenly, Everyone Agrees on Epstein

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
The Epstein Capitulation

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Bad News for the Filibuster

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
We Have a Situation (Room)

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Democrats After the Shutdown

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
The Great Unshutting

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Sunday Fun Day

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright, Kate Nocera and Brett Bachman
Oh, SNAP

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
MTG 2028?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Tara Golshan and Jasmine Wright
The 2026 Countdown Begins

By Tara Golshan, Brett Bachman, Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
What to Watch Tonight

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
A Big Week for Angst

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

Breaking: Senator ‘Encouraged’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Haters Gonna...

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman
With Friends Like These...

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Alex Roarty
Democrats’ Shutdown Arguments

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Duffy’s Bad Day

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
Doing It All

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman
Ingrassia Out

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
No Pain, No Gain

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Lessons From “No Kings”

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Trump’s ‘Cliff-Hanger’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Spending Big on Security

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
What’s Cut at HHS

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Trump Takes a Victory Lap

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Political Reprisals in the DMs

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Trump’s Triumph

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Why Comey Wasn’t Pardoned

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Look Who’s Talking Now

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Return to Office Canceled

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Setting a Shutdown Precedent

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Maximum Pain

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
Shhhutdown

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
‘Every Day Is Like a Dog Year’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
What Comes Next for Portland

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Comey’s Indictment and the F-Word

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Trump’s Secret Budget

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Brett Bachman and Tara Golshan
Liberal Groups Brace for Impact

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Brett Bachman
Comedy Is Legal Again

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Brett Bachman
Trump’s DOJ Pressure Campaign

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Tara Golshan
Who Gets Protected?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Tara Golshan
Programming Changes

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman

Next in the Speech Fight

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman
The Crackdown Begins

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Brett Bachman
What Is Free Speech?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
Fear and What Comes After

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman
This Is Not Politics

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Brett Bachman
Big, Beautiful, Liked by Dems?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Brett Bachman
Aftermath of a Doodle

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Cheers and Jeers

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Alex Roarty
Bolton Warrant Revealed

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Beyond the Grave

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Senate Democrats’ One Job

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Grumpy September

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
MAHA’s Might

By Tara Golshan, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Chaos at the CDC

By Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
Fed Up

By Jasmine Wright, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman
DOJ Brain Drain

By Jasmine Wright, Tara Golshan and Brett Bachman
Trump’s Next Target

By Brett Bachman and Tara Golshan
Trump’s Ride-Along That Wasn’t

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Katrina and FEMA’s Future

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Exclusive: CDC After the Shooting

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Three Steps Forward?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Cards on the Table

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
‘He’s a Realist’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Brett Bachman
Emcee-in-Chief

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
‘Only the Beginning’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Federal District

By Evan McMorris-Santoro, Jasmine Wright and Tara Golshan
Outrunning Epstein

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
Secret Helicopter

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
The Big, Beautiful Pitch

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright
How Laura Looms

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Jasmine Wright

Extensions of Tensions

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
How Deep Is This MAGA Rift?
Saying Their Piece

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
The Big Questions This Week

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
Brave Senator or ‘Unhinged B**ch’?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Torrence Banks
Confrontations

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Torrence Banks
What Is a Distraction?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
Serious Business

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
A Real Trip

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
X, Formerly known as Twitter

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
Keeping Everyone Busy

By Evan McMorris-Santoro
‘It’s Like Mommy and Daddy Are Fighting’

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Torrence Banks
The Senate’s Summer Crush

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Torrence Banks
Scalise Talks Spending

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Kate Nocera
Formatting the Issues

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Kate Nocera
DOGE Days of Musk

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Trump vs. Foreign Students

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Ch-Ch-Changes

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Same Difference

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Reconciled

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Clear as Mud

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Solvers vs. the Problem

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Margaret Manto
Stratego

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
Here’s a Tip For You

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
New Rules

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
Marked Up

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
I Really Don’t Care, Do U?

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
SNAP, Reconciliation and Pop

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
Red, White and Blue Smoke

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal
Populism Is in the Eye of the Beholder

By Evan McMorris-Santoro and Samuel Larreal