Explaining the controversial pasts of candidates like Herschel Walker in Georgia and Sean Parnell in Pennsylvania.
Author: Amber Phillips
How would Democrats’ billionaires tax actually work?
Explaining that and other tax proposals Democrats are considering to try to pay for their social spending bill, such as the corporate minimum tax and the SALT deductions.
What Kyrsten Sinema gets out of staying so mum
Positing some theories.
Why Democrats are in such a rush to get their social safety net bill passed
Washington often can’t agree on anything until the last minute. So what deadline is suddenly moving Democrats to find a way forward?
Mitch McConnell’s resignation to Trumpism
Embracing Trump’s false election claims has become the defining feature of base Republican politics, and there’s not much the Senate minority leader can or is willing to do about it.
What does Kyrsten Sinema want in Democrats’ social spending bill? Here’s what we know.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) is a holdout on Democrats’ safety net bill who is hard to read.
What voting rights provisions might Republicans support?
How the global supply chain crisis is posing a political problem for President Biden
The port of Los Angeles is severely backlogged as a result of a snarled global supply chain, creating long waits for goods, higher prices, a potential political headache for Biden.
What can happen to the Trump advisers who are ignoring the Jan. 6 subpoenas?
The special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and former president Donald Trump’s role in it is only as good as the documents it can get and the people it can talk to. That’s becoming a problem.
Who wants what out of Congress’s fiscal battles?
A rundown of the biggest political players to watch over the next few months as fiscal battles come to a head in Congress, and what they want out of it all.