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Borrowing From Donald Trump’s Playbook, Marjorie Taylor Greene Loses Her Assignments but Builds Her Power
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. For more than a half decade now, mainstream Republicans would lower their voices in both volume and pitch and tell each other that things were going to go back…
State Budgets Are In Tatters. Republicans in Washington Say Too Bad
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Back in May, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott looked around and saw few reasons to think his state would make a speedy recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. He had closed…
Bachelor Stars Are Promoting a Birth Control App on Instagram That Experts Say Uses One of the Least Effective Contraceptive Methods
Natural Cycles claims to be 98% effective with perfect use and 93% effective with typical use
The U.S. and China Are Battling for Influence in Latin America, and the Pandemic Has Raised the Stakes
The U.S. is ceding influence in latin America to China
We May Never Eliminate COVID-19. But We Can Learn to Live With It
We may never eliminate COVID-19. But we can learn to live with it
NIH Director Francis Collins Is Fighting This Coronavirus While Preparing for the Next One
In May 2020, Dr. Francis Collins, the longtime head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was called to the White House to meet with Jared Kushner, the then President’s son-in-law and adviser, and Dr. Deborah Birx, the head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. A few weeks earlier, Congress had given the NIH…
The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the election
More Americans Expect to Lose Influence Under Biden. Here’s Why That’s a Problem
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. In politics, the reality of a situation is often second to how it’s perceived. President Gerald Ford was, in the public’s mind, a klutz. It didn’t matter that he…
These Leaders Have a Message for Biden and Harris if They Want to Help Black Americans: Be Explicit About Race
Black activists and leaders who were disappointed in Barack Obama's approach to Black America don't want to see the same thing from the Biden administration
T.J. Osborne Is Ready to Tell His Story
T.J. of the Brothers Osborne is now the only openly gay artist signed to a major country label—a historic moment for the genre
How the Creators of HBO’s The Lady and the Dale Told a Sensitive Story About a Complicated Trans Trailblazer
The new docuseries paints a multidimensional portrait of the auto entrepreneur and complicated transgender trailblazer Liz Carmichael
Why Democrats Seem Ready to Go It Alone
Biden’s meeting last night with lawmakers in the Oval Office — his first known such meeting since he became President — produced no negotiated compromise.