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The D.C. Brief
Why an Immigration Overhaul Won't Be Part of the $3.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
By Philip Elliott
Democrats Face a Grueling Two Weeks as Infighting Erupts Over Infrastructure
By Philip Elliott
How Trump Helped Dems Win the Calif. Recall
By Philip Elliott
When George W. Bush Called Out the Jan. 6 Rioters, We Listened
By Philip Elliott
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The D.C. Brief
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
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
Independents’ Views on the Economy Pose a Political Risk to Joe Biden
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. Unless you’re a die-hard political science nerd, the date...
By Philip Elliott
August 26, 2021
Joe Manchin Faces Protests from the Left at Home in West Virginia
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 many ways, politics is a theater for policy...
By Philip Elliott
August 25, 2021
House Democrats Fight Over Infrastructure Bill
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. Legislative standoffs are nothing new at the Capitol. But...
By Philip Elliott
August 24, 2021
Why Legacy Wealth Is an Easy Target to Fund 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. The United States is a nation of deep inequalities....
By Philip Elliott
August 20, 2021
A Political Scientist on Why the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan
An interview with Dominic Tierney, author of 'The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts.'
By Philip Elliott
August 18, 2021
Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Frustrates Veterans in Congress
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. John Murtha made history in 1974, arriving in Washington...
By Philip Elliott
August 17, 2021
The Senate Gets Ready to Spend A Sum of Money Unseen Since World War II
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. Before they left town this week, Senate Democrats passed...
By Philip Elliott
August 12, 2021
Why the Cuomo Political Dynasty May Endure
Americans were frustrated with power accumulated in the hands of a few families.
By Philip Elliott
August 11, 2021
You’re Not Imagining It: Biden Is Building His Team Slower Than Recent Presidents
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. Earlier today, President Joe Biden wrestled a win out...
By Philip Elliott
August 10, 2021
A New Documentary Reminds Viewers of Barack Obama’s Pure Political Skill
'Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union' tells the story of the 44th President in three acts: childhood, campaign and presidency
By Philip Elliott
August 12, 2021
Ohio Special Election Results: The Mainstream Holds
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 the end, what passes for mainstream politics —at...
By Philip Elliott
August 4, 2021
Buried in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: In-Car Breathalyzers
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. Amid the 2,702-page bipartisan infrastructure plan that could get...
By Philip Elliott
August 3, 2021
Crypto Tax: How Congress Wants to Pay for Your New Roads
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 whole sexiness of cryptocurrency has been its potential...
By Philip Elliott
July 30, 2021
Two Decades Later, the Lessons of the 9/11 Commission Echo
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 enduring narratives that, with a...
By Philip Elliott
July 28, 2021
In Rejecting Trump Loyalists, Pelosi Defends—and Damns—the Truth About Jan. 6
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 gave her Republican counterpart a...
By Philip Elliott
July 22, 2021
Foreign Lobbying Isn’t Inherently Bad—Until There Are Lies
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. About halfway through the second act of Hamilton, Lin-Manuel...
By Philip Elliott
July 21, 2021
Tomorrow’s Infrastructure Vote Iffy, At Best
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 personal wound was hard to mistake in President...
By Philip Elliott
July 20, 2021
Why Congress Deserves Its Own Emmy Category
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 Emmy nominations came out this week, one couldn’t...
By Philip Elliott
July 18, 2021
By Making the Jan. 6 Probe Political, Republicans Stand to Re-Run Benghazi Playbook
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. Welcome back, Benghazi. Washington has hardly missed the rancor...
By Philip Elliott
July 14, 2021
Renegade Lawmakers May Be No Match for Trump’s GOP
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 legislation seemed unstoppable. The political party in the...
By Philip Elliott
July 13, 2021
Donald Trump Is a Better Community Organizer Than Barack Obama Ever Was
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. For years, there was always a tweet. At least...
By Philip Elliott
July 13, 2021
Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over
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. If you were anything like my family over the...
By Philip Elliott
July 7, 2021
How a Veteran Prosecutor Sees Bill Barr’s Legacy
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 several moments in Elie Honig’s new book,...
By Philip Elliott
July 6, 2021
Prosecutors Indict Trump’s Longtime Money Man,
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 pre-dawn surrender of Donald Trump’s longtime money man...
By Philip Elliott
July 1, 2021
Are Demographics Destiny? Maybe Not, New Pew Numbers Suggest
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 become something of a cliché in Washington for...
By Philip Elliott
June 30, 2021
Feds Are Fed-Up with Trump-Era Meddling
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 not easy being a Fed. Federal workers are...
By Philip Elliott
June 29, 2021
Post-White House Donald Trump Continues to Destroy Norms
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. At the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, I came...
By Philip Elliott
June 28, 2021
This is the Queerest Congress Ever. Will It Advance LGBTQ Rights?
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. For many Americans, it’s all too easy to assume...
By Philip Elliott
June 25, 2021
Breyer May Stay on the Supreme Court Just to Spite Politics
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 frustration in Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s voice...
By Philip Elliott
June 23, 2021
Why Popular Bills Keep Dying in the Senate
Senate Democrats attempted to begin the debate over a massive voting-rights package. Along a party-line vote, Republicans blocked even the first steps on the measure
By Philip Elliott
June 23, 2021
Moscow's Long History of Turning the Tables on Washington When It Comes to Human Rights
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. That chill that went down your spine yesterday? The...
By Philip Elliott
June 17, 2021
Top Biden Adviser Tells Congress the Chase for Bipartisanship Is Running Out of Time
Steve Ricchetti met privately with House Democrats and told them that Biden’s plans for infrastructure would get a bit firmer in the next week or so
By Philip Elliott
June 16, 2021
Facing a Stalled Agenda in Washington, Democrats Talk Up American Rescue 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. Hillary LaSever-Ceja, was getting ready to buy a new...
By Philip Elliott
June 14, 2021
Manchin Again at the Center of the Democrats' Agenda Troubles
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 matching color palette was a nice touch when...
By Philip Elliott
June 9, 2021
It’s Eerily Like 2009 in Virginia’s Gubernatorial Primary
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. You’d be forgiven for feeling a sense of déjà...
By Philip Elliott
June 8, 2021
Why Kyrsten Sinema Could Control the Future of 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. Kyrsten Sinema came to Washington back in 2012 as...
By Philip Elliott
June 4, 2021
Joe Biden Is Chasing a Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal That May Never Materialize
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 wasn’t that long ago that a go-to joke...
By Philip Elliott
June 2, 2021
The Unlikely Coalition That Forced Marriage Equality
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 Barack Obama was preparing for his 2012...
By Philip Elliott
June 3, 2021
Republicans Sink Proposal for a Jan. 6 Commission
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 the clock ticked past 2 a.m. this morning,...
By Philip Elliott
June 3, 2021
How Trump Muddled the 'Lab Leak' Debate
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. Around this time a year ago, then-President Donald Trump...
By Philip Elliott
June 3, 2021
On Anniversary of George Floyd’s Death, Biden Misses a Deadline
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. President Joe Biden had two dates circled on his...
By Philip Elliott
June 3, 2021
Calls for Justice in the U.S. Create a Dilemma for Pro-Israel Policies
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 calls for social justice on the American Left...
By Philip Elliott
June 3, 2021
Why Did Republicans Balk at a Jan. 6 Commission? Donald Trump
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 quite a week already for Rep. John...
By Philip Elliott
May 20, 2021
A Progressive Window Closed Hard — And Perhaps Way Too Early
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. At one of the worst points in this pandemic,...
By Philip Elliott
June 3, 2021
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