Plus, why Republicans in Congress hate Trump’s health care plan; Marjorie Taylor Greene is playing the long game; Olivia Nuzzi’s real victims; and more ...
A weekly roundup of The New Republic’s political reporting
It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?
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The House GOP revolted after details of the plan leaked over the weekend. Now its status is unclear.
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He came to power through a relentless assault of lies. But the debt owed to the truth is coming due.
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More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.
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A now-abolished agency that never was did a remarkable amount of damage—including, surprisingly, to the budget deficit.
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Tuesday, December 2 · 4–5 p.m. E.T. |
Political insiders, GOP legislators and governors, the president, even the Supreme Court—they’re all in on the flagrantly unconstitutional conspiracy to destroy democracy by drawing lines on a map. There’s a cure, but it requires a Democratic Party we just don’t have today.
David Daley and voting rights activists ask: How can we stop the butchering?
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The "contrarian" journalist’s new vision for CBS News appears to just mean reinventing Crossfire.
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The resigning Georgia congresswoman understands something that other Republicans don’t.
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First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
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Here we are, Black Friday, officially Christmastime now. America is in a sour mood. Grocery prices are up, and so are energy prices. Donald Trump lies incessantly about both. The American people are onto him. They’re pessimistic about the future.
The distrust goes way beyond the economy. Over these last few weeks, ever since the government shutdown, it’s finally begun to sink in on people that Trump and his entire administration are a bunch of raging ideologues or incompetents or both, peddling a fantasy version of their strength that people no longer buy. There’s no longer any doubt about it: The MAGA crack-up has begun.
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As the GOP’s Obamacare problem worsens and Trump urges Republicans to rig the midterms, the author of a piece on the GOP conundrum explains how GOP hatred of the ACA could doom Republicans electorally. Read the transcript here.
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The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
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