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Joe Biden May Let Congress Have More of Trump's Jan. 6 Records. Here's Why That Matters
By Nik Popli
Colin Powell and the Power of Owning Your Mistakes
By Philip Elliott
Colin Powell Has Died of COVID-19 Complications
By ROBERT BURNS, ERIC TUCKER and EILEEN PUTMAN/AP
The Fight to Save the Salmon
By By Brian Bennett/Lapwai, Idaho with Photographs by Kiliii Yüyan
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The Biden Administration Frames Climate Change as a 'Systemic' Economic Risk
(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is taking steps to address the economic risks from climate change, issuing a 40-page report Friday on government-wide plans to protect the financial, insurance and housing markets and the savings...
By Josh Boak / AP
October 15, 2021
Why It's Critical that Jan. 6 Rioters’ Rights Are Respected
I think it’s important to admit when my professional judgement was wrong. I did so freely at the start of this month, acknowledging that my skepticism for old-fashioned letter-writing campaigns was statistically off. (It turns...
By Philip Elliott
October 14, 2021
Biden's IRS Bank Reporting Proposal Will Foster Tax Fairness
Every year, taxpayers—mostly wealthy Americans—fail to pay $600 billion in taxes they owe. This so-called tax gap is equal to the federal income taxes paid by the lower 90% of all taxpayers. Ignoring this huge...
By Charles O. Rossotti
October 13, 2021
Social Security Benefits Get the Biggest Cost-of-Living Adjustment in 39 Years
(WASHINGTON) — Millions of retirees on Social Security will get a 5.9% boost in benefits for 2022. The biggest cost-of-living adjustment in 39 years follows a burst in inflation as the economy struggles to shake...
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER / AP
October 13, 2021
The Great American Redistricting Race Has Begun
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. There are a few types of lawmakers in Washington...
By Philip Elliott
October 13, 2021
Why Regulating Facebook’s Algorithm Could Be Unconstitutional
Taking aim at the algorithm instead of breaking up the company through antitrust law would be a novel approach that would almost certainly invite legal challenges
By Julia Zorthian
October 13, 2021
How Ravkoo Pharmacy Sold Millions Worth of Ivermectin
A TIME investigation reveals how a company with a history of criminal behavior secured taxpayer funds to prop up a business distributing dubious drugs to misinformed patients
By Vera Bergengruen
October 13, 2021
Boston Marathon Bomber Supreme Court Case Exposes Split Between Biden and Justice Department on Death Penalty
Attorneys will stand before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and argue the fate of one of the most infamous members of federal death row: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. While the case could have...
By Madeleine Carlisle
October 12, 2021
Abortion Cases Are Waning America's Trust in the Supreme Court
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. When the Supreme Court Justices settled in this morning...
By Philip Elliott
October 12, 2021
Health Experts Condemn Biden's Border Rules
Biden is using Title 42, a 75-year-old public health measure, to expel more than 700,000 migrants
By Jasmine Aguilera
October 12, 2021
As Bannon Bucks Subpoena, Trump Fights Power of Jan. 6 Probe
For months, the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has waited to hear from the people closest to Donald Trump to shed light on what the former President was doing as hundreds of...
By Nik Popli
October 8, 2021
Trump Hotel Lost $70M Despite Millions in Foreign Business
Trump's company lost more than $70 million on his D.C. hotel during his time in office despite taking in millions from foreign governments.
By BERNARD CONDON / AP
October 8, 2021
This Is the White House's Plan to Take on Facebook
President Joe Biden wants Congress to strengthen antitrust laws, make sure privacy is better protected, and rewrite Section 230
By Brian Bennett
October 7, 2021
What Facebook’s Very Bad Week Means for Antitrust Reform
Facebook's week of bad news has brought urgency to long-running calls to update the country’s laws governing monopolies
By Abby Vesoulis
October 7, 2021
McConnell’s Debt Ceiling Deal Just Kicks Democrats’ Problems Down the Road
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. Mitch McConnell faced two futures. Both featured scorched earth....
By Philip Elliott
October 7, 2021
Thousands of Public Servants Could Get Student Loans Erased
The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements—a change that could offer debt relief to thousands of teachers, social workers,...
By COLLIN BINKLEY / AP
October 6, 2021
Execs Pocketed Millions During Meltdown
We’re talking about a grand total of $571 million in bonuses to more than 16,600 leaders at companies that were—or are—in deep, deep trouble
By Philip Elliott
October 6, 2021
What Americans Don’t Know About the Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Hurts All of Us
After two years as a representative of OxyContin’s victims in the Purdue Pharma bankruptcy, I’m finally breaking my silence. I served as a co-chair of the Unsecured Creditors Committee inside the case, appointed by the...
By Ryan Hampton
October 6, 2021
How Fixing Facebook's Algorithm Could Help Teens—and Democracy
Frances Haugen's testimony depoliticized the conversation about Facebook, making it less about extremism and more about kids' mental health.
By Charlotte Alter
October 5, 2021
Biden Is Feeling the Climate Pressure As COP26 Looms
"People's worst fear is that...the political system in the United States can't deliver."
By Justin Worland
October 5, 2021
Gen. Stanley McChrystal Would Have Done Things Differently in Afghanistan
Stanley A. McChrystal’s only child, Sam, used to be in a punk rock band. Two, actually: The Welfare Babies and The Lucky Scars. They played the circuit a bit back in the early 2000s, when...
By Belinda Luscombe
October 5, 2021
Promised U.S. Aid to Haiti Has Yet to Arrive
As the United States moves quickly to deport thousands of Haitians, the Biden Administration has repeatedly promised to support the migrants upon their return to their impoverished home country. But more than a week after...
By Jasmine Aguilera
October 4, 2021
The Problem With Housing Choice Vouchers
The only thing that's clear after a week of Democratic infighting on Capitol Hill over a proposed $3.5 trillion social spending package is that lawmakers will have to trim hundreds of billions—if not trillions—from their...
By Abby Vesoulis
October 4, 2021
The Battle Over Funding for At-Home Care
With moderate Democrats threatening to tank the White House's sweeping, $3.5 trillion economic package, President Joe Biden's long-standing promise to support older and disabled Americans is in jeopardy. As a candidate during the height of...
By Abigail Abrams
October 4, 2021
Inside the U.S. Base Where Afghans Wait
On the last morning of September, dozens of Afghan children cheered on their older brothers as they played a lively game of soccer with U.S. Army soldiers on a military base in rural Wisconsin. As...
By Vera Bergengruen/Fort McCoy, Wis.
October 4, 2021
What Does Kyrsten Sinema Want?
When Arizona Republican Steve May was first introduced to then-state legislator Kyrsten Sinema in the early 2000s, she wouldn’t even say hello. “At the time, all she knew about me was that I was an...
By Charlotte Alter
October 2, 2021
Surprising Data Shows Political Letter-Writing Still Gets Out the Vote
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. I’ll be the first to admit it: I rolled...
By Philip Elliott
October 1, 2021
Justice Brett Kavanaugh Tests Positive for COVID-19
(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court says Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for COVID-19. The high court said in a press release Friday that Kavanaugh has no symptoms and has been fully vaccinated since January....
By Associated Press
October 1, 2021
Progressives Throw Biden's Agenda Into Doubt
Progressives claimed victory Thursday night after a planned infrastructure vote was delayed following their vows to oppose it
By Charlotte Alter
October 1, 2021
Joe Biden Signs Bill to Avert a Partial Government Shutdown
The legislation is needed to keep the government running once the current budget year ends
By KEVIN FREKING / AP
September 30, 2021
Dems’ Infighting Jeopardizes Housing Vouchers
As Democrats spar over a sweeping bipartisan infrastructure bill and an even bigger budget reconciliation package that includes funding for everything from universal pre-k to free community college, the fate of a historic investment in...
By Abby Vesoulis
September 30, 2021
Kathy Hochul Faced Childcare Struggles and Sexism at Work. Now She’s New York’s First Woman Governor
A month into New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s term, Andrew Cuomo has become a ghost. Almost nobody in the governor’s office mentions his name. In a recent hour-long interview, Hochul called him only “this past...
By Charlotte Alter
September 30, 2021
What the U.S. War on Terror Looks Like After Afghanistan
Despite Biden’s pledges to end America’s 'forever wars,' the U.S. is embroiled in counterterrorism efforts at Camp Lemonnier.
By W.J. Hennigan/Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti
September 30, 2021
Why Joe Biden Isn’t Strong-Arming the Senate Democrats Holding Up His Agenda
Senators have spent hours on the custard-colored couches of Joe Biden’s Oval Office over the past several days. Dozens of chocolate chip cookies have been passed out. Irish poetry has been quoted. In one White...
By Brian Bennett
September 29, 2021
The Major Supreme Court Cases to Watch This Fall
The nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench to hear oral arguments on Oct. 4, kicking off what could be one of the most monumental terms in years. After an...
By Madeleine Carlisle
September 29, 2021
Donald Trump Still Leads The Republicans—And That’s Bad for Almost Everybody
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. Donald Trump is out of office. That doesn’t mean...
By Philip Elliott
September 29, 2021
To Build Back Better, Tax Ultra-Wealthy Families Like Ours
After a summer of speculation, the contours of the deal needed to pass President Joe Biden’s popular “Build Back Better” agenda are becoming clear. To win key votes, Congress will have to find fresh sources...
By Liesel Pritzker Simmons
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Progressives Are 'Holding the Line' for Spending Bill
After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that she may push through the bipartisan infrastructure bill ahead of the Democrats' larger social spending package, some House progressives say they are sticking with their original position: they...
By Charlotte Alter
September 28, 2021
Democrats Head Toward Piecemeal Infrastructure Votes As Coalition Frays
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 Speaker Nancy Pelosi had never wavered. She said...
By Philip Elliott
September 28, 2021
Biden's COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Frustrated OSHA
When President Joe Biden directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on Sept. 9 to impose strict COVID-19 vaccination and testing protocols on large businesses, the OSHA employees were ready. It marked the first...
By Julia Zorthian
September 27, 2021
Germany's Election Produced No Clear Winner. What Happens Next?
Now the coalition building begins
By Eloise Barry
September 27, 2021
Infrastructure and Reconciliation: A Guide to Congress’ Week
It’s crunch time on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue. Both the White House and Democrats in Congress are scrambling to pass two bills that will form the cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s legislative legacy: a...
By Alana Abramson
September 27, 2021
Joe Biden Gets His Booster Shot
After regulators approved a third dose for some at-risk groups
By Zeke Miller / Associated Press
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Joe Biden's Effort to Pass His Domestic Agenda
This is not how Joe Biden wanted September to go. He expected to be barnstorming the country in the closing weeks of negotiations on his signature spending plan, pitching the expansion of health care benefits...
By Brian Bennett
September 24, 2021
Haaland: Petito Case a Reminder of Missing Native Americans
Deb Haaland said news coverage of the Gabby Petito case should be a reminder of hundreds of indigenous women who are missing or murdered.
By MATTHEW DALY / AP
September 24, 2021
EU Climate Chief: U.S. and Europe Need to Tackle Climate Change Together
A few short months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, announced an ambitious initiative to tackle climate change that would transform every sector of...
By Justin Worland
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