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The NRA's Power is Waning. Opposition to New Gun Laws Isn't.
By Charlotte Alter and Vera Bergengruen
'It's F-cking Nuts to Do Nothing About This.' Democrats Vent as Congress Remains Gridlocked on Guns After Uvalde
By Abby Vesoulis
Senate Hearing for Biden's ATF Nominee Displays Rigid Partisan Divide on Guns
By Eric Cortellessa
What Trump’s Bad Night in Georgia Really Means
By Brian Bennett
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Texas' Gun Laws Have Become Looser in Recent Years. The Uvalde School Shooting Likely Won't Change That
Texas' gun laws—among the most permissive in the country—have come under heightened security after an 18-year-old gunman shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. Six mass shootings...
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 25, 2022
A Handful of Climate-Focused Independents Just Upended Australia’s Political System. Here’s What Comes Next
"It’s clear that Australians will no longer stand for a government that won’t act on climate change"
By Amy Gunia
May 25, 2022
School Shootings Confirm That Guns Are the Religion of the Right
Sometimes calls for America to return to God are couched in the language of consolation. Especially after a mass shooting. When 19 children were killed at school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, U.S. Rep. Lauren...
By Samuel L. Perry
May 25, 2022
Herschel Walker’s Win in Georgia Complicates Republican Efforts to Retake the Senate
National Republicans had been fretting for weeks that the Senate primary in Georgia would end exactly the way it did.
By Philip Elliott
May 25, 2022
Greene, McBath Win U.S. House Races, Cuellar in Tight Runoff
Tuesday’s primary elections in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Minnesota and Texas offer a glimpse of what the next Congress could look like
By BRIAN SLODYSKO / AP
May 25, 2022
Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger Beats Trump Ally
Brad Raffensperger won Georgia’s Republican primary election for secretary of state, fending off against Trump-endorsed U.S. Rep. Jody Hice
By Kate Brumback / AP
May 25, 2022
Paxton Beats Bush in Texas GOP’s Attorney General Nomination
Paxton's victory shows Republican voters continue to support him despite Bush’s efforts to highlight ethics issues
By Shelly Hagan / Bloomberg
May 25, 2022
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey Wins GOP Gubernatorial Nomination
The unexpectedly tough race pushed a candidate known for folksiness far to the right
By Jay Reeves / AP
May 25, 2022
Katie Britt and Mo Brooks Headed for Alabama Senate Runoff
The candidates are seeking the Senate seat now held by retiring U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby and will go to a runoff in June
By KIM CHANDLER / AP
May 25, 2022
Trump Rebuked in Georgia's Republican Contests
The former president failed to replace all four Republican incumbents he targeted in the state
By STEVE PEOPLES and JEFF AMY / AP
May 24, 2022
Biden Urges ‘Stand Up to Gun Lobby’ After Texas School Shooting
“I am sick and tired of it," the president said. "We have to act."
By Brian Bennett
May 24, 2022
U.S. To Rename Bases That Honor Confederates
Benning, Bragg and Lee Demoted; Panel recommends naming installations after Women, Black Americans For The First Time
By W.J. Hennigan
May 24, 2022
Plot to Assassinate George W. Bush Foiled, FBI Says
Shihab Ahmed Shihab, an Iraqi asylum seeker, described the plan to a paid FBI informant
By Erik Larson / Bloomberg
May 24, 2022
Georgia's Race for Governor Shows the Limits of Trump’s Power
In a primary season in which many of Trump's endorsements have proven pivotal, his effort against Gov. Brian Kemp is the most high-profile test.
By Philip Elliott
May 24, 2022
David Perdue Says Stacey Abrams ‘Demeaning Her Own Race’
(Atlanta, Ga.) — Georgia Republican candidate David Perdue on Monday accused Stacey Abrams of “demeaning her own race” in Abrams' recent criticism of Georgia's quality of life for its residents. Abrams is bidding to be...
By JEFF AMY / AP
May 24, 2022
Texas Democrat Runoff Becomes a Battle Over Abortion
Once she was his intern; now she's his opponent. But that's not the only thing that makes the battle between Jessica Cisneros and Rep. Henry Cuellar in south Texas among the most intriguing of May...
By Charlotte Alter
May 24, 2022
Mike Pence Is Road-Testing His 2024 Pitch in Georgia
Stumping for Gov. Brian Kemp, Pence hit all of the conservative movement’s greatest hits.
By Philip Elliott
May 23, 2022
In Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Deep-Red District, Democrats Eye a (Very Small) Opening
If they can't unseat the deeply divisive Greene, they can at least run up the tallies for Stacey Abrams and Raphael Warnock.
By Philip Elliott
May 22, 2022
Fetterman vs. Biden Fatigue in Pennsylvania
Welcome to The Back Booth, a weekend edition of The D.C. Brief. Here each Saturday, TIME’s politics newsletter will host a conversation between political professionals on the right and the left, pulling back the curtain...
By Philip Elliott
May 21, 2022
Anti-Abortion Fringe and the Buffalo Shooter
In the week since a gunman killed 10 people in a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., countless articles and television spots have unpacked the racist conspiracy he shared in a hate-filled manifesto before his shooting...
By Jasmine Aguilera and Abigail Abrams
May 21, 2022
Afghans in the U.S. Can Now Apply for Temporary Protection
The Biden Administration will now allow Afghans in the U.S. to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a designation that would protect them from deportation for 18 months, grant them a work permit, and give...
By Jasmine Aguilera
May 20, 2022
Judge Blocks Biden's Effort to End Title 42
Title 42 will now likely remain in place for the foreseeable future
By Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle
May 20, 2022
Buffalo Exposes Limits Of Biden's Domestic Terror Strategy
“This is not 2001, where we’re wondering why radicalization happens."
By W.J. Hennigan and Vera Bergengruen
May 20, 2022
'I'm Sorry. I've Got Your Sister.'
Katherine Massey had a list. She needed to get meat, fruit, paper towels. The 72-year-old Buffalo native usually went to the grocery store every two weeks, and when she did, she stocked up. On Saturday,...
By Eric Cortellessa/Buffalo
May 20, 2022
Texas Trans Kids' Families Fear Child Abuse Investigations
"I’m just waiting for someone to knock on the door."
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 19, 2022
The House Passed a Resolution Condemning Anti-Semitism. It Wasn’t Unanimous.
Rep. Thomas Massie’s rigid libertarianism often puts him far afield from his fellow Republicans.
By Philip Elliott
May 19, 2022
Biden's Moves on NATO Come Amid Fear Russian War Will Expand
The president is getting progressively bolder in his efforts to support Ukraine and bolster NATO.
By Brian Bennett
May 19, 2022
Why Ro Khanna Wants to Talk About Gas Prices
Inflation is rankling voters, and the conventional wisdom in Washington is that sky high gas prices are a big liability for Congressional Democrats, who are already expected to lose seats in the fast-approaching midterm elections....
By Justin Worland
May 19, 2022
The Small, Local Election With Potentially Major Climate Change Significance
Next week’s primary election in Georgia has made national news as a potential bellwether of how voters view former President Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 presidential election in the state, which...
By Justin Worland
May 19, 2022
Pennsylvania Republicans Nominated an Election Truther for Governor, Putting the Swing State on Shaky Ground for 2024
Republicans handily nominated Doug Mastriano, who Trump endorsed.
By Philip Elliott
May 18, 2022
Why Madison Cawthorn Lost His Race
About 95% of members of the U.S. House get re-elected for subsequent terms. North Carolina Congressman Madison Cawthorn, a 26-year-old scandal-ridden Republican, became a rare exception when he lost his primary race on Tuesday. In...
By Abby Vesoulis
May 18, 2022
What Terra's Crash Means For Crypto and Beyond
UST's downfall could have short-term and long-term ripple effects, especially as skeptical legislators like Elizabeth Warren survey the damage
By Andrew R. Chow
May 17, 2022
Biden Condemns White Supremacy in Emotional Speech in Buffalo
President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the deadly supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. an act of terror and excoriated the white supremacist ideology that inspired the alleged gunman, but he stopped short of announcing a...
By Eric Cortellessa/Buffalo, NY
May 17, 2022
The Mess Facing Pennsylvania Republicans as Barnette Surges
Oz and McCormick forgot to look downstream and Pennsylvania Republicans could pay the price.
By Philip Elliott
May 17, 2022
Politicians Created the Formula Shortage. Can They Fix It?
A 1989 law led to intense consolidation in the baby formula industry.
By Abby Vesoulis
May 17, 2022
Kathy Barnette Is the Trumpiest Candidate Who Wasn't Endorsed by Trump
A few weeks ago, before Kathy Barnette became a true contender to win the Pennsylvania Republican Senate primary, Jackie Kulback, the GOP party chair in Cambria County, had a quick question for the candidate. "I...
By Charlotte Alter
May 16, 2022
'There's No Such Thing As a Lone Wolf.' The Online Movement That Spawned the Buffalo Shooting
The gunman accused of murdering 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket seemed to fit a familiar pattern. Isolated and bored during the pandemic, he had become increasingly radicalized by consuming white-supremacist content online. He had...
By Vera Bergengruen
May 16, 2022
How the ‘Great Replacement Theory' Has Fueled Racist Violence
The man who opened fire in a Buffalo grocery store on Saturday, killing 10 people, appears to have been motivated by a white nationalist ideology known on dark corners of the web as the “great...
By Nik Popli
May 16, 2022
The Buffalo Shooter Targeted a City Haunted by Segregation
The gunman allegedly posted a racist manifesto online before the massacre.
By Eric Cortellessa/Buffalo
May 16, 2022
News of Fetterman's Stroke Brought Out the Best in His Senate Rivals. Will it Last?
In a swing state like Pennsylvania, candidates are especially wary of alienating any voters.
By Philip Elliott
May 16, 2022
Buffalo Shooting: Biden Faces Pressure on Gun Control
Joe Biden campaigned on a pledge to “end” America’s gun violence epidemic. The racially-motivated shooting that killed 10 people and injured three at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday highlights how far...
By Brian Bennett
May 16, 2022
Supreme Court Rules for Ted Cruz in Campaign Finance Case
(Washington, D.C.) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Monday sided with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in his challenge to a provision of federal campaign finance law, in a ruling that a dissenting...
By JESSICA GRESKO / AP
May 16, 2022
Inside the Right-Wing Movement to Ban Trans Youth From Sports
In the spring of 2020, Idaho became the first state in the United States to ban transgender girls and women from participating in women's sports. Two years later, fifteen states have enacted similar laws. Trans...
By Madeleine Carlisle
May 16, 2022
The Back Booth: An ‘Orgy of Oppo' on Madison Cawthorn and an Unprecedented Subpoena
Welcome to The Back Booth, a weekend edition of The D.C. Brief in which we host a conversation between two political pros.
By Philip Elliott
May 14, 2022
Trump Endorses Mastriano for Pennsylvania Governor
Mastriano was already leading a crowded field of contenders
By MARC LEVY / AP
May 14, 2022
Biden's Abortion Stance and Catholic Faith Have Never Been More at Odds
Tension Between Biden's Abortion Stance and Catholic Faith
By Brian Bennett
May 13, 2022
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