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Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell Could End Up in a Truce, Thanks to Myanmar
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. If you were like a lot of Washington this week, you haven’t been able to take your eyes off the broadcast of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Snap…
This Video of Jan. 6’s Insurrection Should Be Mandatory
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. It was impossible not to feel your pulse quicken as House Democrats pushed the play button on a 13-minute supercut of what transpired on Jan. 6. Barricades fell. Flagpoles…
Trump Second Impeachment Trial Kicks Off in Two Different Americas
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. As former President Donald Trump’s history-making second impeachment trial gets underway today, there is truly little expectation that the Senators who are doubling as the jury will vote to…
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…
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…
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.
Trump Created So Much Tension in Washington, Even Sledding at the Capitol Is Barred
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. It snowed in Washington yesterday. With two inches on the ground, it was the most winter weather we’ve seen in two years, and more could be on the way…
Rebranding America Is Very On-Brand
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. Ping-pong diplomacy broke the Cold War fever. In the United States, ping-pong policy followed, and more or less has set the course of what the nation stands for ever…
Why Republicans Can’t Win on QAnon-Supporting Marjorie Taylor Greene
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 Washington, there’s a pretty set playbook for when politicians or their aides find themselves with an onslaught of negative headlines filling the inbox and hostility knocking at the…
What Rand Paul’s Procedural Failure Says About Donald Trump’s Survival
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. Sen. Rand Paul lost the very first procedural vote of former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial. But you’d never know it from the way he crowed afterward. “The…
In Less Than a Minute, Biden Changes U.S.-Russian Dynamics
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. It’s been a busy week in Washington. President Joe Biden yesterday reversed his predecessor’s ban on transgender individuals from serving in uniform, boosted a Buy American program for manufacturing…