WASHINGTON
Abby Livingston
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December 31, 2024
We Need to Talk About Kay Granger
The disappearance of the 81-year-old congresswoman, who stopped casting votes in July and was recently revealed to be residing in an assisted living facility, has reignited a debate on Capitol Hill about how aging members can retire with dignity.
Tara Palmeri
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December 27, 2024
Trump’s Day One Punch List
A sobering conversation with conservative legal scholar John Yoo about what the president-elect can and cannot do on his first day in office, from imposing tariffs to pulling out of NATO, pardoning insurrectionists, targeting people on his “enemies list,” and finally building that wall.
Peter Hamby
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December 24, 2024
Democrats’ Post-MSNBC Playbook
Multiplatform content maven Brian Tyler Cohen reveals how the Democratic blob can finally move beyond its depressing greenroom biases and play a game that the Republicans started mastering a decade ago.
Abby Livingston
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December 21, 2024
Trump Chaos Agents & Johnson’s Plan C
News and notes from Capitol Hill on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Tara Palmeri
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December 20, 2024
How to Spend It: Political Capital Edition
A frank conversation with Bill Stepien, Trump’s former White House political director, about what exactly political capital is—and why Donald Trump never seems to run out.
Abby Livingston
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December 19, 2024
A.O.C.’s Silver Linings Playbook
House Democrats, guided by the long arm of Nancy Pelosi, moved to block Ocasio-Cortez’s ascent on Oversight—a job that would have put her front and center on C-SPAN. But the left’s millennial icon is playing a much longer game.
Peter Hamby
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December 17, 2024
Kamala’s No-Pity Party & America’s DOGE Skepticism
As Harris postures for her next political opportunity, exclusive data from Echelon Insights suggests a future angle for Democrats: Trump’s appointees don’t poll all that great, tariffs are unpopular, and Elon and Vivek have some explaining to do.
Tara Palmeri
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December 17, 2024
Trump’s Retribution Tour Begins
On Monday evening, Trump sued Ann Selzer, the respected pollster who incorrectly predicted a Harris victory in Iowa. Is he looking for compensation over damages or simply firing a warning shot to the industry ahead of his next term?
Abby Livingston
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December 14, 2024
Silicon Valley Goes East
Elon Musk was only the first pioneer in a mass migration of Trump-friendly tech moguls salting the ground in Washington in advance of a deregulatory assault on the agencies policing crypto and A.I.
Tara Palmeri
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December 13, 2024
Red Pete
A no-holds-barred conversation with Paul Rieckhoff, a fellow Iraq War vet turned activist, about the political atom bomb effect of placing Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon.
John Heilemann
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December 12, 2024
Hakeem’s State of the Union
A sprawling conversation with the Pelosi protégé and House Democratic leader on some of the most pressing issues facing Democrats in the near and long-term: reconstituting the party after November’s crushing defeat, countenancing Trump’s screwball cabinet nominations, and what bipartisanship will actually look like over the next four years.
Abby Livingston
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December 11, 2024
Democrats’ Big Chill
Trump’s unusually early cabinet appointment timeline has given his nominees time to wear down reluctant G.O.P. senators. It’s also given Democrats a chance to shut up, sit back, and watch the Republican infighting. But sitting quietly has never been one of their strengths.
Peter Hamby
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December 10, 2024
Ro Knows
Ro Khanna represents some of the wealthiest zip codes in America, but what the Bernie-friendly, Bannon-approved Democrat really wants to talk about is the shafting of American factory workers and what the next president—maybe Khanna, himself?—should do about it.
Abby Livingston
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December 7, 2024
Dems’ Pitchfork Uprising
The House Agriculture Committee, along with Judiciary and Natural Resources, has become the epicenter of a generational revolution within the Democratic caucus as rising stars like Angie Craig and A.O.C. come after their party elders.
Tara Palmeri
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December 6, 2024
The Hegseth Sitch & Trump Confirmation Dominoes
The president-elect has stopped working the phones for Pete Hegseth, and Ron DeSantis may be on deck, amid cascading scrutiny of Trump’s most controversial nominees.
John Heilemann
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December 5, 2024
The F.B.I.’s Kash Conundrum
With Trump bent on revenge and having appointed the ideal henchman to carry it out, F.B.I. honchos are dusting off their résumés while field officers cross their fingers. Two bureau veterans—Frank Figliuzzi and Andrew Weissmann—explain how worried we should really be.
Abby Livingston
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December 4, 2024
Hegseth Senate-ology 101
The fate of Trump’s most crucial cabinet confirmations will be decided by a handful of Republican Senators, all of whom are playing a game of political Jenga. How much each has to lose, if anything, could be the deciding factor.