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Polls: No really; it’s still the economy, stupid

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Jason Dick

Setting the record straight on Biden’s spending

Chuck Schumer last week took to the Senate floor to blame Donald Trump for the poor January 2025 consumer price index (inflation rate) report,...

19.02.2025 2

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David Winston

Congress has itself to blame for current constitutional crisis

One way to understand the unfolding constitutional crisis in Washington is as the inevitable result of 30 years of congressional dysfunction. For...

19.02.2025 10

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Steven Pearlstein

Why words matter in political fights

Our country is in crisis, a crisis of vocabulary. Words matter. They have consequences, and yet words get thrown around carelessly in the middle of...

19.02.2025 6

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Nathan L. Gonzales

The 1.47 percent mandate for chaos

It has been one month since Donald Trump’s second term began, but it feels like he has been president for at least the past decade or two. Every...

18.02.2025 9

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Stuart Rothenberg

The pro wrestlers the Democratic Party needs to emulate

The Democratic Party is in shambles. There’s absolutely no reason the Democratic Party should be in shambles. Donald Trump won the presidential...

14.02.2025 2

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Brandon Wetherbee

The ‘lost boys’ of Trump and Musk shrink next to real patriots

When, after his stellar World War II service, Harry Stewart Jr. applied for a job as a Pan Am pilot, he was clearly overqualified. The Tuskegee...

13.02.2025 2

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Mary C. Curtis

For Roll Call, Tim Curran ‘was our guy’

Roll Call, in its 70 years, has produced some of the best journalists to cover Washington. While you know many of their names from front-page...

12.02.2025 4

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David Meyers

Ukraine and the day after a ceasefire

As top Trump administration officials meet with European officials this week about how to end the war in Ukraine, and as the president and Defense...

12.02.2025 1

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Bruce Stokes