Author: David Weigel
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Claiming mandate, GOP Congress lays plans to propel sweeping conservative agenda
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save For six years, since they took back the House of Representatives, Republicans have added to a pile of legislation that moldered outside the White House. In their thwarted agenda, financial regulations were to be unspooled.…
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Presidential vote in congressional districts points to Democratic risks in 2018
Democrats started the 2016 election cycle with pessimism about their chances of taking back the House of Representatives. For a few moments this autumn, they allowed themselves to think that there was a chance to win it after all, if Donald Trump melted down. Now, heading into a midterm that they expect to break a…
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Why are people giving Jill Stein millions of dollars for an election recount?
On Wednesday afternoon, near the start of one of the year’s final news droughts, former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein announced a new campaign: to pay for recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The news went first to the journalist Greg Palast, then on Stein’s Facebook page, then in an interview with the Russian…
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Why so many Sanders supporters don’t want to be Democrats
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The deadline to register for the June 7 Democratic primary here was looming. As people trickled into a Bernie Sanders rally at Santa Monica High School, Josh Ehrhart was chasing the…