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Buried in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: In-Car Breathalyzers
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Amid the 2,702-page bipartisan infrastructure plan that could get a vote by the weekās end is a series of safety requirements for the vehicles set to travel on allā¦
Crypto Tax: How Congress Wants to Pay for Your New Roads
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The whole sexiness of cryptocurrency has been its potential to disrupt the status quo, to revolutionize Wall Street and create a new democratic ethos in a global economic systemā¦
Two Decades Later, the Lessons of the 9/11 Commission Echo
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. There are a few enduring narratives that, with a few tweaks here and there, can frame up just about any big story in Washington. And here in D.C., oneā¦
In Rejecting Trump Loyalists, Pelosi Defendsāand Damnsāthe Truth About Jan. 6
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave her Republican counterpart a chance to rethink his choices of appointees to a special panel to study how and why insurrectionists breached the U.S.ā¦
Foreign Lobbying Isnāt Inherently BadāUntil There Are Lies
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. About halfway through the second act of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda reaches for George Washingtonās farewell letter to script the Founding Fatherās exit from the showās plot. Theater kidsāand theirā¦
Tomorrowās Infrastructure Vote Iffy, At Best
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The personal wound was hard to mistake in President Joe Bidenās voice yesterday as he stood in the White Houseās State Dining Room to make yet another push forā¦
Why Congress Deserves Its Own Emmy Category
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. As Emmy nominations came out this week, one couldnāt help but note one important absent category: Best Performance By a Politician. Surely the pantomimed outrage, concern and indignation comingā¦
By Making the Jan. 6 Probe Political, Republicans Stand to Re-Run Benghazi Playbook
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. Welcome back, Benghazi. Washington has hardly missed the rancor and disingenuous narratives about the 2012 terrorist attack on American outposts in Libya and the 10 separate investigations into it.ā¦
Renegade Lawmakers May Be No Match for Trumpās GOP
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. The legislation seemed unstoppable. The political party in the majority in the state capitol was hellbent on pushing through a partisan policy that no amount of reasoning, organizing orā¦
Donald Trump Is a Better Community Organizer Than Barack Obama Ever Was
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. For years, there was always a tweet. At least until there wasnāt. In 2014, as tensions were aflame in Ferguson, Mo., after the shooting of Michael Brown, then-private citizenā¦
Why COVID-19ās Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. If you were anything like my family over the July 4 holiday, there were bowls of potato salad, casseroles of baked beans and platters of hotdogs, hamburgers and chickenā¦
āOff the Rails.ā How a Veteran Prosecutor Sees Bill Barrās Legacy
This article is part of the The DC Brief, TIMEās politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday. There are several moments in Elie Honigās new book, Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutorās Code and Corrupted the Justice Department, where you can imagine the authorā¦