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How To Swap Presidents Without an Insurrection
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. Now that we’re a year into Joe Biden’s presidency, much of Official Washington is issuing its report cards. In summary: Biden had better hope the coming years are kinder.…
The Voting Rights Battle Isn’t Over. It’s Just Moving Out of DC
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. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer knew the massive voting-rights package was condemned to failure when he put it on the legislative calendar yesterday. But he wanted to show everyone…
Echoing Trump, GOP Threatens to Pull Out of Presidential Debates
Republicans are about to implement a Donald Trump loyalty test inside its central party committee, the latest move to gauge fealty to the de facto party leader
Why Democrats Need to Be Careful on the Filibuster
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 President Joe Biden delivered a major speech in Atlanta on Tuesday designed to prod the Senate to change its rules in order to pass a pair of voting-rights…
If Anyone Can Talk Russia Out of Invading Ukraine, It’s Probably Wendy Sherman
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 Wendy Sherman’s world, rationality rules. For the Deputy Secretary of State, the players look at the field as it is set, weigh risk and reward, concessions and consequences…
Biden’s Been Counted Out Before—And Loves To Prove the Haters Wrong
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 an easy idea to hold over the years, a tempting one at times, really: Joe Biden is dunzo and isn’t coming back from this setback. The 1972…
Nobody Should Be Surprised Joe Manchin Killed Biden’s Agenda
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. And just like that, Build Back Better died. With apologies to the Sex and the City spinoff, that was the effect of Sen. Joe Manchin’s visit to the set…
Want to Win the White House? Recruit a Candidate for School Board
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. No one really disputes the concept of political coattails. The biggest name on a ballot has some dragging fabric that can pull down-ballot contenders across the finish line. The…
Democrats Race Against the Clock on Year-End Agenda—If They Can Agree on One
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. The easiest way to look foolish in Washington is to declare with any certainty the fate of any political agenda. Time and time again, legislation that should be a…
Democrats Race Against the Clock on Year-End Agenda—If They Can Agree on One
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. The easiest way to look foolish in Washington is to declare with any certainty the fate of any political agenda. Time and time again, legislation that should be a…
How Person of the Year Elon Musk Tests Washington’s 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. It’s Elon Musk’s world. We’re just living in it. That’s the take-away from this year’s selection of the billionaire innovator as TIME’s Person of the Year, a role our…
Mitch McConnell Helps Democrats Avoid a Global Economic Meltdown—And Plans to Use That Against Them
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. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in October made it as clear as he could: he would help his Democratic colleagues keep the government’s credit card out of the shredder…