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Joe Biden Tries to Pass His Domestic Agenda As Crises Mount
Haaland: Petito Case a Reminder of Missing Native Americans
By MATTHEW DALY / AP
EU Climate Chief: U.S. and Europe Need to Tackle Climate Change Together
By Justin Worland
U.S. Lawmaker Wants to Ban Booze ‘To Go’ at Airports
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‘Defund the Police’ Was a Catchy Slogan. It’s Also Why a Policing Bill Fell Apart
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. Richard Nixon had an energy crisis on his hands...
By Philip Elliott
September 23, 2021
Former U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis Testifies in Elizabeth Holmes Fraud Trial
Mattis joined the Theranos board of directors in 2013, though he had no medical background, and invested in the company
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE/AP
September 23, 2021
Joe Biden Scrambles to Unite Democrats Behind His Agenda
Joe Biden ran for president promising to be a savvy dealmaker in Congress. But now, with his domestic agenda threatened by disagreements within his own party, he is facing the ultimate test. Biden spent Wednesday...
By Alana Abramson
September 23, 2021
Florida Bill Would Ban Most Abortions—Like Texas Law
The bill would require doctors in Florida to perform tests to determine if a fetus has a detectable heartbeat before performing an abortion
By Michael Smith and Jonathan Levin/Bloomberg
September 22, 2021
Biden Wants to Send Aid to Afghanistan Without Supporting Taliban
When President Joe Biden stood in front of the iconic green marble and gold foil backdrop to address the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 21, he declared that the U.S. had...
By Brian Bennett
September 22, 2021
Bipartisan Congressional Talks on Police Reform Collapse
Bipartisan congressional talks on overhauling policing practices have ended without an agreement, marking the collapse of an effort that began in 2020.
By ALAN FRAM / AP
September 22, 2021
Five Reasons Why Infrastructure Is Dead—And One Why It’s Not
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. Remember the good ol’ days of 2019, before COVID-19...
By Philip Elliott
September 22, 2021
Can $11 Billion Make the U.S. a Climate Leader?
Biden's commitment of $11 billion could give the rest of the world a boost of confidence in the U.S.
By Justin Worland
September 22, 2021
Haitian Migrants Reportedly Being Released in U.S.
The AP report undercutting the Biden Administration's public statements that the thousands in the Texas camp faced immediate expulsion
By Elliot Spagat, Maria Verza and Juan A. Lozano/AP
September 22, 2021
Texas Abortion Law May Worsen Maternal Death
Researchers suggest that Texas' controversial abortion law may lead to an increase in maternal death in the state
By Abigail Abrams
September 22, 2021
How Texas’ Abortion Ban Will Lead to More At-Home Abortions
A new anti-abortion restriction in Texas is fueling awareness of self-managed abortions and how to access them. "The conservative legislators are actually helping us do our jobs," the co-founder of Plan C, purveyor of self-managed abortion information, tells TIME.
By Abby Vesoulis
September 21, 2021
Democrats Must Pass Voting Rights Protections, But They Can't Codify a Lie
Back from their summer recess, Senate Democrats announced last week that they have united behind the "Freedom to Vote" Act, a compromise bill that would expand and protect the right to vote in important ways....
By William J. Barber II
September 20, 2021
Why an Immigration Overhaul Won't Be Part of the $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
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 Senate’s wonk-in-chief has once again shown who’s really...
By Philip Elliott
September 20, 2021
With All Eyes on Washington, the Real Far-Right Threat Has Moved On
A much-hyped “Justice for J6” rally on Saturday to support individuals being prosecuted for participating in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was over in little more than an hour. Inside a crowd...
By Vera Bergengruen
September 18, 2021
'A Tragic Mistake.' Botched Drone Strike in Afghanistan Raises Concerns Over Biden's Counterterrorism Strategy
Days after ISIS-K terrorists killed more than 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops at Kabul’s airport, the U.S. military obtained intelligence that another attack was imminent. MQ-9 Reaper drones were deployed above the city, running...
By W.J. Hennigan
September 17, 2021
Special Counsel Indicts Lawyer With Clinton Ties
The indictment indicates that the special counsel is pursuing a legal theory that Democratic operatives intentionally fed the FBI information to harm the candidacy of Donald Trump
By Chris Strohm and Christian Berthelsen/Bloomberg
September 17, 2021
Democrats Face a Grueling Two Weeks as Infighting Erupts Over Infrastructure
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. House Democrats yesterday finished penning a 2,600-page bill that...
By Philip Elliott
September 16, 2021
Inside the Nation's Largest Guaranteed Income Experiment
One evening in early June, Leo and his family were able to enjoy a treat they hadn’t experienced in months: a sit-down meal at a restaurant. At a fried chicken chain in a Compton, California...
By Abby Vesoulis/Compton, CA
September 16, 2021
Biden Retains Confidence in Mark Milley Despite Trump Actions
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took extraordinary steps to try to prevent Donald Trump from using military action to remain in office, according to revelations from a forthcoming book by Washington...
By Brian Bennett
September 15, 2021
Xi Reportedly Declined Meeting With Biden
Xi hasn’t left China for more than 600 days, the longest stint of any Group of 20 leader
By Nick Wadhams and Justin Sink/Bloomberg
September 15, 2021
How Trump Helped Dems Win the Calif. Recall
In California, Democrats branded GOP frontrunner Larry Elder as the heir to Donald Trump
By Philip Elliott
September 15, 2021
Inside Bernie Sanders' Strategy to Get the Budget Bill Passed
On a sticky late August afternoon, Senator Bernie Sanders takes the stage in the state that catapulted him from fringe presidential candidate to progressive hero five years ago. One need look no further than the...
By Alana Abramson/Cedar Rapids, IA
September 14, 2021
Biden Urges Californians to Vote No in Recall
“The eyes of the nation are on California,” Biden told a rally on Monday
By Jennifer Epstein and Mario Parker/Bloomberg
September 14, 2021
When George W. Bush Called Out the Jan. 6 Rioters, We Listened
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. SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — It was just one page in...
By Philip Elliott
September 13, 2021
2 Presidents Search for Unity
The azure sky over lower Manhattan on Saturday morning was eerily similar to the bright morning of Sept. 11, 2001, twenty years before. President Joe Biden stood in a crowd under the canopy of oak...
By Brian Bennett / Shanksville
September 11, 2021
20 Years After 9/11, the West Can Still Salvage Its Standing in the World
When I deployed to Afghanistan in 2001 to help dismantle the al Qaeda network, I did so with a sense of hope. In the wake of history’s worst terrorist attacks, the United States had resolved...
By Ali Soufan
September 11, 2021
How 9/11 Radically Expanded the U.S. Government's Power
Two decades ago, the deadly terror attacks on 9/11 changed nearly all aspects of American life. Culture shifted, imbued with heightened levels of fear. The U.S. launched costly, deadly wars. Congress passed sweeping legislation. The...
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 11, 2021
Joe Biden Wants to Honor 9/11—By Moving On From National Security Priorities That Defined the Past 20 Years
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, it was Joe Biden’s wife Jill who told him on the phone that a second plane had crashed into New York’s Twin Towers. Biden was on board an...
By Brian Bennett
September 10, 2021
America Needs an Operation Warp Speed for Rapid COVID Testing
The Delta variant has caused a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and deaths, threatening earlier gains made by the Biden Administration in tackling the pandemic. President Biden on Thursday laid out an ambitious comprehensive six-point COVID...
By Michael Mina
September 10, 2021
Twenty Years of Data Show How America Changed — And Stayed the Same — After 9/11
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 world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. Two decades...
By Philip Elliott
September 10, 2021
The World's Most Famous Private Detective Makes No Apologies
About a decade ago, when his mansion in upstate New York started feeling too cramped for all his grandkids, Jules Kroll, the world’s most famous private detective, set out to build a bigger one on...
By Simon Shuster
September 10, 2021
White House Withdrawing ATF Nominee David Chipman Amid Senate Opposition to Gun Control Measures
Chipman’s nomination stalled for months as he was widely seen as one of the administration’s most contentious nominees
By MIKE BALSAMO and ALEXANDRA JAFFE/AP
September 9, 2021
What to Know About Taliban Leader Mullah Akhund
Experts say Akhund was the compromise choice
By Eloise Barry
September 9, 2021
Why the Human Rights Campaign Had to Fire Its President
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. So far this year, one Washington powerhouse has lobbied...
By Philip Elliott
September 8, 2021
The Tricky Politics of the Texas Abortion Law
Americans just can't stop fighting about abortion. It's a third-rail issue that has alternately animated the left and emboldened the right. But now, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court's refusal to halt a new...
By Charlotte Alter
September 7, 2021
Rape Crisis Centers Struggle to Respond to Texas' Abortion Law
The crisis hotline for the Dallas Area Rape Crisis Center is open all hours of the day, every day of the week. Trained volunteers answer roughly 1,800 calls per year, mostly from survivors of sexual...
By Julia Zorthian
September 5, 2021
Labor Secretary Marty Walsh Wants to Improve Blue-Collar Work. Can He Convince Washington?
Having an exceptionally productive month at work could ruin Chloe Morgan. A single mother to four boys under the age of ten, Morgan is a saleswoman in Dayton, Ohio, with a $30,000 base salary that...
By Abby Vesoulis / Dayton, OH
September 3, 2021
'A Decision Was Made.' Biden Faces the Fallout for His Chaotic Retreat in Afghanistan
For 35 minutes, as flag-draped cases were carried down a ramp, Biden stood in front of the cold reality of his decisions
By Brian Bennett
September 2, 2021
How Chuck Schumer Became Key to the Biden Agenda
How the Senate's Great Kibitzer became the key to the Biden agenda
By Molly Ball
September 2, 2021
Let's Not Rush to Judgment About the Withdrawal From Afghanistan
As I listen to the commentators discuss the current situation in Afghanistan, the central question does not seem to be whether we should leave the country, but why it happened so fast and chaotically. The...
By Angus King
September 1, 2021
What Texas' Abortion Ban Means for Future of Abortion Rights
Even if the ban is ultimately blocked, it will provide a roadmap for other conservative states to enact similar abortion restrictions
By Abigail Abrams
September 1, 2021
U.S. Vows to Continue Fight From Afar
The Biden Administration has vowed to keep terrorist threats in Afghanistan at bay from “over the horizon,” by monitoring the situation and deploying drones
By Vera Bergengruen
August 31, 2021
Congressional Oversight on Afghanistan Is Just Beginning
America’s longest war may have ended, but the accountability battles for President Joe Biden's Administration are just beginning. Questions about the Biden Administration’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan—which resulted in a gruesome terror attack that left...
By Alana Abramson
August 31, 2021
Delta Will Charge Unvaccinated Employees $200 Insurance Fee
As the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more companies are starting to require coronavirus vaccines for their employees. But this week, Delta Air Lines chose a different tactic when it became the first...
By Abigail Abrams
August 27, 2021
Kabul Bombing Marks a Turning Point in Afghanistan Withdrawal
The attacks, which killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 60 Afghans, marked the most gruesome and ignominious moment yet of America's endgame in Afghanistan
By Brian Bennett
August 26, 2021
Inside the Group Peddling a Bogus COVID Treatment
Mike says he was struggling with COVID-19 when he felt his breathing getting worse. He did not want to go to the Veterans Affairs hospital near his home, where he believed doctors might put him...
By Vera Bergengruen
August 26, 2021
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