JANUARY
After Trump’s drubbing in the courts, liberals fear a legal hangover
At least 12 GOP senators to challenge Biden’s win
Trump’s pressure on Georgia election officials raises legal questions
Inside McConnell’s handling of Trump’s election challenge
Senate GOP opposition grows to Electoral College challenge
‘Failed Insurrection’
Trump grip on GOP grassroots holds fast
Trump’s existential threat: How to keep GOP in line without Twitter
Warnock win puts spotlight on Senate’s shortcomings
Pelosi to move forward with impeachment if Pence doesn’t act to remove Trump
House to vote Wednesday as Pelosi gets the votes to impeach Trump
‘This is a solemn day’: Democrats move toward Trump’s ouster
IMPEACHED TWICE
Trump’s impeachment trial crashes Biden’s first 100 days
Biden warns of challenges ahead as he rolls out new vaccine plan
Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out
Impeachment managers: Trial is referendum on Trump ever holding office again
How Trump’s fights with tech transformed Republicans’ beliefs on free speech
‘He Was the Ringmaster in the Demise of His Own Circus’
Biden pledges, once more, to lead America away from dystopia
Republicans bludgeon Biden’s big stimulus plans
Delay in power-sharing pact leaves Senate in limbo
Detroit’s legal pot reticence spills over to Muslim-majority neighbor
Bipartisan group of senators pushes back on Biden Covid plan
Trump’s second impeachment trial launches with questions over witnesses
Pennsylvania GOP pledges full allegiance to Trump
Democrats look to quickly move past Trump trial
‘For Christ’s sake, watch yourself’: Biden warns family over business dealings
Biden administration readies battle plan as Covid variants reach U.S.
Zuckerberg’s pledge to depoliticize Facebook hits grassroots movements
Trump stocks new PAC with tens of millions as he bids to retain control of GOP
FEBRUARY
Trump pollster’s campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat
‘Let them take you to court’: Biden dares GOP to obstruct him
House votes to speed stimulus passage after Biden meets with Dems
‘We’ve learned to love the guy:’ How Biden charmed the left
Biden brushes off rescue plan critics from left and right
Republicans seek to pin California’s Covid-19 problem on Biden’s HHS pick
Biden’s vaccine ad campaign hits roadblock: Not enough doses
Biden’s strategy for Trump’s impeachment: Sit back and STFU
Trump trial opens with gripping footage of Capitol violence
Impeachment managers directly blame ‘inciter-in-chief’ Trump for Capitol attack
Dems rest case against Trump warning of more attacks
Senate GOP gripped by conviction vote intrigue
Republicans voted to acquit Trump. Now, he may haunt them
Senators and impeachment managers: The trial is over but the work isn’t done
Dems buzz about breakout stars of Trump’s impeachment
California Democrats scramble to fight Newsom recall, close ranks
Is Cuomo wounded enough to take down?
‘Ted Fled’: Cruz returns from Cancun amid Texas crisis
Manchin to oppose Tanden for OMB, imperiling major Biden nomination
The jockeying to replace Neera Tanden has begun
Dems prepare for party-line House vote on Biden’s pandemic bill
Neera Tanden in deeper jeopardy as 2 Republicans oppose her nomination
Capitol security officials in charge on Jan. 6 blame Pentagon, intel failures
Single-shot Covid-19 vaccine ‘safe and effective’
Minimum wage hike runs aground in Senate during Covid aid debate
Democrats renew push for war powers overhaul after Biden’s Syria strike
CPAC puts a bullseye on China
New York City’s once-powerful Democratic bosses sit out mayor’s race
MARCH
Biden’s bubble risk: A reckoning in markets as the economy recovers
Neera Tanden withdraws as Biden’s budget chief pick
Cuomo harassment scandal poses fresh #MeToo test for Democrats
Biden’s Covid aid bill advances in Senate
Democrats, GOP tussle for Manchin’s vote in frozen Covid aid debate
Schumer leads Dems to messy but major win on Covid aid
Sen. Roy Blunt won’t run for reelection in latest blow to GOP
Anti-filibuster liberals face a Senate math problem
House gives final OK to Biden’s $1.9T Covid aid plan
New York lawmakers launch Cuomo impeachment investigation
States embrace Biden’s bold new vaccines promise – with caution
Biden keeping Ukraine at arm’s-length
Beyond Covid relief: Biden invokes LBJ as Democrats aim to expand welfare state
Why Newsome still isn’t getting the vaccine
How Yang charmed the right on his road to political stardom
Pelosi’s push for 9/11-style Capitol riot commission stalls in political quicksand
House to pass scaled-back immigration measures as GOP support wanes
‘In the dark of night’: Trump’s Interior chief snuck Murkowski an 11th-hour win
Will at-home abortions make Roe v. Wade obsolete?
Republican AGs take blowtorch to Biden agenda
Biden Brings Back Family Separation – This Time in Mexico
‘This is a wake up call’: Georgia’s Asian communities turn tragedy into political power
Why this moment for gun politics is different
Biden meets the press and the pandemic disappears
The ‘Green Energy’ That Might Be Ruining the Planet
Atlanta massacre sparks a political awakening in the Korean church
‘Time is not on our side’ – Biden navigates cyber attacks without a cyber czar
Internal CDC data shows virus regaining foothold as Biden urges states to pause reopening
Biden releases first wave of judicial nominees
Infrastructure Year: Dems brace for brutal slog to pass Biden’s $2.5T plan
APRIL
Biden administration invokes Civil Rights Act to stall Texas highway widening
No defense: Gaetz finds few Republican allies amid investigation
Biden’s green energy plans clash with pledge to create union jobs
Andrew Yang’s Asian American Superpower
Inside the White House plan to sell its massive infrastructure proposal
Biden faces tough choice over a battery plant in Georgia
Biden to unveil long-awaited executive action on guns
Caitlyn Jenner moves closer to California recall run
Republicans draft veteran candidates to reclaim House majority
How Biden hopes to fix the thorniest problem in housing
Trudeau government threatens Halifax Security Forum over proposed Taiwan award
‘Felt like a setup’: Whats App chat shows Gaetz ally scrambling to contain fallout
Biden officials bracing for possibility of weekslong disruption to J&J vaccine supply
How Biden’s team overrode the brass on Afghanistan
Democrats agonize over game theory on Biden’s $2T-plus spending plan
‘A nicer version of Trump’: GOP donors flock to DeSantis
North Carolina primary field builds, with or without Lara Trump
Border weed: How the hometown of tater tots became a cannabis capital
Capitol riot defendants win unlikely Dem champions as they face harsh detainment
Derek Chauvin convicted of murdering George Floyd
Chauvin trial political fallout: Groundbreaking verdict, same fault lines
CDC reassigns official who drew spotlight for pandemic warning
CDC panel endorses use of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
Why Biden’s Armenian Genocide Declaration Really Is a Big Deal
House GOP retreat to Florida fraught with peril
Which states are gaining House seats in 2022 – and which are losing out
Biden’s 100 days has gone smoothly. Does the summer curse await?
Biden’s tax hikes are about to collide with reality
Mark Kelly bucks Biden on the border
Caitlyn Jenner’s recall campaign goes silent in first week
MAY
McAuliffe opponents struggle to break through in Virginia
The cannabis industry’s next war: How strong should its weed be?
Congress’ top tax man won’t be a blank check for Biden
‘It really f–ks the other ’24 wannabes’: How Facebook could give Trump a huge boost
Trumpland thought he’d get back on Facebook. Now, they’re anxious and scrambling.
MAGA world pans Stefanik
Jobs surprise triggers battle over federal aid
Biden plan could save California high-speed rail – if state leaders can ever unite
‘They Just Launched a War’
Critics urge Biden to step up as violence spreads in Israel
Stefanik faces first public House conservative foe in her push to replace Cheney
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: How the House GOP took down Cheney
Riot revisionism, hallway aggression, squashed alliances: The House nears a Cold War
The world’s most powerful local paper
Democrats embrace a tougher tack toward Israel as violence flares
‘Feeding frenzy’: Florida’s big push to remake gambling
Biden wants ‘calm’ in the Mideast. So much for peace.
National money floods New York mayor’s race
GOP defections over Jan. 6 commission deliver rebuke to McCarthy
Democrats struggle to influence Biden’s foreign policy – in the Mideast and beyond
Conservatives lash out at the military over ‘woke’ policies
A Biden-friendly economist is creating a headache for president’s spending plans
Vaccines’ success could undercut Biden’s multibillion-dollar school testing plans
FEMA program for Covid-19 victims stumbles over death-certificate data problems
The harsh spotlight on Black women leading big cities
GOP ire imperils bipartisan plan to confront China
Biden mocks Republicans for promoting recovery plan they voted against
‘Pretty damn scary’: Failure of Jan. 6 commission exposes Senate wounds
Policy Hackathon: Can public transit recover from Covid-19?
‘We Know Occupation’: The Long History of Black Americans’ Solidarity with Palestinians
The Surprising Honolulu Origins of the National Fight Over Same-Sex Marriage
JUNE
Biden in Tulsa: ‘Great nations … come to terms with their dark sides’
Hackers are making Americans’ lives worse, at an awkward time for Biden
Progressives to Biden: The GOP is playing you, Joe
Facebook wanted to escape the Trump trap. So much for that.
Why both parties are so fixated on a nonpartisan Texas mayor’s race
What My Covid-19 Vaccine Saga Taught Me About the U.S. Health Care System
The left hates Joe Manchin. His fellow Senate Dems are staying quiet.
Biden ends infrastructure talks with Senate GOP, starts engaging bipartisan group
Biden World on bipartisan infrastructure talks: Little harm in still trying
Dem leaders look to deescalate Omar drama
Barr distances himself from Trump-era subpoenas of Democratic lawmakers
World leaders grapple with how tough to be on China
Biden heads to NATO amid friction over Afghanistan withdrawal
Biden calls Putin ‘a worthy adversary’ ahead of meeting
Not friends, few benefits: Biden to take ‘calculated risk’ in Putin summit
Biden to Putin: Help me help you
GOP crushes Manchin’s hopes for elections compromise
Biden has big fears about voting restrictions and finds few tools to deal with it
As pandemic subsides, businesses push Congress for one more bailout
Maine’s mom and pop weed scene sweats corporate ‘gentrification’
Maya Wiley says she should be mayor of New York. Former City Hall colleagues aren’t so sure.
Senate Republicans block Dems’ sweeping elections reform bill
Congressional negotiators and White House agree on infrastructure framework
Wine, watermarks and a farmer’s nudge: How the infrastructure deal got done
GOP infrastructure negotiators fume over Biden’s handling of their deal
Six Years After Same-Sex Marriage, Now What?
GOP struggles with diversity test on powerful finance panel
Federal court tosses antitrust suits against Facebook, in huge blow to D.C.’s fight with tech
Adams stays ahead, Garcia surges to second but election board admits counting discrepancy
Republicans go all-in on immigration as a political weapon
JULY
Why an Indictment of the Trump Organization Really Is an Indictment of Trump
U.S. job gains surge, easing pressure on Biden over labor market
Clock’s ticking for California recall candidates trying to oust Newsom
Virus lab leak theory dogs Democrats eager to keep focus on Trump’s Covid failings
Skeptics question if Biden’s new science agency is a breakthrough or more bureaucracy
How Putin could jam up Biden’s post-Afghanistan plans
Could a School-Board Fight Over Critical Race Theory Help Turn Virginia Red?
Biden puts faith behind Afghan troops while defending U.S. withdrawal
Biden takes calculated political risk on Afghanistan withdrawal
Plugging Obamacare’s biggest hole poses dilemma for Democrats
Opinion: The Democrats Need a Reality Check
‘Potentially a death sentence’: White House goes off on vaccine fear mongers
New concern for Biden: Could Larry Summers be right about inflation?
Florida Dems to Biden: Don’t blow ‘golden opportunity’ on Cuba
Flooding kills dozens in Germany and Belgium
House Republicans close money gap with majority at stake
Frustrated industry group see Biden’s Covid Czar as obstacle to reopening travel
Democrats look to crush states’ highway habit
‘It’s ceding a lot of terrain to us’: Biden goes populist with little pushback
Biden tiptoes around Fox News amid pushback on Covid vaccine disinfo
Republicans scramble to secure infrastructure support ahead of failed vote
Biden’s obsession with scoring a bipartisan deal suddenly looks quite doable
GOP sees widening rift over promoting Covid shots
Californians tired of doing their part during triple-digit heat
Cuomo said AG probe would clear him. Now his aides say it’s political.
Cheney-McCarthy war of words heats up over Jan. 6 investigation
Biden wants Putin to behave. So why not go after his money?
Trump tries to sabotage the Biden infrastructure deal
Florida officials defy DeSantis as infections spike
‘Complete disaster’: Inside the Biden team’s chaotic bid to evacuate Afghan interpreters
Biden’s new mask guidance too little, too late for parts of the country, officials say
AUGUST
No hangovers or beer bellies: Cannabis firms try to woo booze drinkers
Schumer weaponizes August recess to advance Biden agenda
AG: Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, broke state and federal law
Democrats prepare to rope GOP into political cliff dive over debt limit
How the pandemic ate millions of jobs in American restaurants
Vaccine demand jumps in states pummeled by Delta variant
Senate infrastructure bill slowed in last lap by lone Republican
Frontline service workers left out of the vaccine mandate trend
Guatemala is key to Biden’s migrant policy. Its corruption is worsening.
The power of 10: Inside the ‘unlikely partnership’ that sealed an infrastructure win
Children’s hospitals are swamped with Covid patients – and it may only get worse
‘I’m not gonna get it’: A neighborhood refuses vaccines despite Covid’s wreckage
Women in NY Politics Say Cuomo Was Just the Beginning
Suffering landlords are Washington’s new eviction problem
‘I Believed in the U.S. But That Turned Out to Be Such a Big Mistake’
‘I stand squarely behind my decision’: Biden holds firm on Afghanistan drawdown
‘Just Watching With Horror’: A Photographer in Afghanistan on the Eve of Collapse
The U.S. plans to offer booster shots next month. Some health experts are wary.
Tumpka era ends, and union tactics may be in for a makeover
‘We’re making the same commitment’: Biden vows to evacuate all Afghan allies seeking safety from the Taliban
‘The Temperature in Saigon Is 105 and Rising’
White House to House Dems: Drug price plan is a winning issue
Pelosi floats offer to moderates to avoid budget clash
Biden sticks to Aug. 31 withdrawal from Afghanistan
Jan. 6 investigators include Trump White House in first document requests
At least 4 U.S. troops killed in ISIS attacks on Kabul airport
Jan. 6 investigators demand records from social media companies
‘Guidance is to just do it:’ Biden greenlights additional strikes on ISIS-K
Meth, Vanilla and ‘Gulags’: How China Has Overtaken the South Pacific One Island at a Time
As Biden ends mission in Afghanistan, a refugee backlash looms at home
White House says pulling troops ‘best way’ to help Americans still in Afghanistan
SEPTEMBER
‘I Love Him More Than I Hate Ted Cruz’
Virus threatens to slam labor market as jobless aid expires
Two senior Dem centrists send Pelosi demands for $3.5T megabill
I Know Firsthand How Ugly a Wartime Evacuation Really Is
‘A Private Matter’: Joe Biden’s Very Public Clash With His Own Church
Why We Can’t Turn the Corner on Covid
Booted from class: Colleges penalize unvaccinated students as Delta surges
Biden moves to boot Trump loyalists from advisory boards
Biden to expand vaccine requirements to frontline health workers
‘It’s about time’: Biden puts the screws on the unvaccinated
How 9/11 shaped Joe Biden’s approach to the politics of national tragedy
Policy Hackathon: How to crisis-proof our food supply
Blinken lays blame on Trump as he defends messy withdrawal from Afghanistan
Biden Covid team sees vaccine efficacy waning in unpublished data from Israel
Lindsey Graham, one-man PR shop for the Afghan resistance
Max Rose plants the seeds for a return to Congress
Tough Biden calls on Trump executive privilege headed for Jan. 6 probe
Lawyers, race and money: Illinois’ messy weed experiment
Dems vow to go the distance as September problems pile up
Dems rope debt to government funding, lassoing GOP into clash
Democrats reveal shutdown and debt patch that’s doomed in Senate
GOP grasps in vain for unity on Afghan refugee message
Democrats hatch secret pay-for-it plan in bid for unity on spending dreams
CDC morale plummets as pandemic drags on
Pelosi goes all in with domestic agenda on the line
Some cannabis firms see ‘disaster’ in federal legalization
Republicans block bill to avert shutdown, lift debt ceiling
Top generals contradict Biden, say they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan
Pelosi defuses debt standoff with centrists, turns to rest of crises
Congress averts shutdown, sends 9-week funding patch to Biden’s desk
OCTOBER
Biden faces fractious Dems with his agenda on the line
Progressives rallied behind Biden’s agenda. Now he has to sell them on a compromise.
Trauma and Trump make Asian American voters a more cohesive bloc, new poll reveals
Top State adviser leaves post, rips Biden’s use of Trump-era Title 42
Whistleblower to Senate: Don’t trust Facebook
McConnell offers to limit the pain as Dems face another debt filibuster
Big Tobacco comes out swinging against Biden’s Build Back Better bill
White house waives executive privilege for some Trump-era docs sought by Jan. 6 panel
Dems fear Sinema’s still not there on a prescription drug plan
‘Are we blowing this?’: McAuliffe and friends plead for online cash.
‘The president’s decline is alarming’: Biden trapped in coronavirus malaise
House budget Chair John Yarmuth announces retirement
House, Senate Democrats at odds over whether to slash paid leave plan
Redistricting forces two GOP incumbents together in West Virginia
Trump allies eye election law push should he be reelected
Virginia is for worriers: Governor race poses real risk to Dem agenda
Democrats find their anti-Rubio warrior in Val Demings
Biden quietly deciding how to restart student loan payments
House hopes to defy history in criminal contempt case against Bannon
Sinema blows up Dems’ plans to tax high earners, corporations
Dem divisions linger in last lap of spending talks
Dems see a $1 trillion-plus deal within reach – but not until next week
California’s legal weed industry can’t compete with illicit market
Georgia Dems wait with fear and angst for help from D.C.
State Department tested diplomats for ‘directed energy exposure’ years before telling Congress
The curious case of Nancy Mace
A fear grows in Trumpworld: Have we gone too conspiratorial?
Fractious Dems struggle to unite around $1.75T megabill
Kinzinger retiring from Congress, vows ‘broader fight nationwide’ against Trumpism
Trump-era tension set to cool under U.S.-EU deal
The suburban Virginia block that explains how Democrats might be about to blow it
NOVEMBER
Kavanaugh, Barrett air skepticism of Texas abortion law
Not it: Democrats dodge blame for stalled agenda as McAuliffe teeters
Dems keep butting heads after Virginia shellacking
Manchin will get last word, even as House races to pass megabill
House Dems throw new curveball: Infrastructure vote, wait on party-line megabill
Rural Democrats stare into the abyss after Virginia
Democrats just got their clocks cleaned. No one seems ready to change anything.
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Trump allies linked to D.C. ‘war room’
Biden made huge promises to HBCUs. Can he sell its students on compromise?
The climate activists stealing Big Oil’s playbook
Cities with empty offices see new room to expand housing
Emails reveal new details of Trump White House interference in CDC Covid planning
Dems’ plan to limit drug price inflation faces test in Senate
Biden-successor chatter grows and Harris isn’t scaring off anyone
Biden finally gets the ‘big effing deal’ signing ceremony of his own
Secretary Pete careening toward a GOP buzzsaw over infrastructure cash
House set to punish Gosar for violent video depicting killing of Oasio-Cortez
‘This is about power’: DeSantis gets big wins ahead of 2022
Bill Hagerty embraces diplomatic roots: ‘I’m gonna be here longer than Joe Biden’
Whose job is it to prevent Armageddon?
‘No ground for cockiness’: Tough love for U.S. at pro-democracy conference
Biden renames Powell to lead Fed, risking the left’s wrath
Biden acts to lower fuel prices – with help from GOP
All three defendants guilty on murder charges in Ahmaud Arbery case
How your Thanksgiving turkey became a proxy in the latest political war
Biden admin announces travel ban for South Africa and 7 other countries, citing new variant
New Covid variant triggers urgent moment for Biden health team
Trump’s Senate picks stumble out of the gate
Biden: Omicron ‘a cause for concern, not a cause for panic’
Appeals court judges poised to reject Trump’s effort to withhold Jan. 6 documents
DECEMBER
Republicans feud over vaccine shutdown fight
Biden is looking at blowout growth even as Covid clouds the outlook again
Biden embraces his one-time foe: Walmart
‘A real fight for our existence’: Massachusetts GOP spirals in Baker exit
Bob Dole, longtime Senate leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee, dies at 98
The dramatic irony of Biden’s foreign-policy picks
McConnell secures GOP support for new debt strategy
Tish James is running for New York governor. Mostly from her office.
‘This call never happened’: Ex-D.C. Guard leaders push back as internal Army report on Jan. 6 emerges
SCOTUS allows clinics’ challenge to Texas abortion ban to proceed
The Demise of America’s Onetime Capital of Black Wealth
Fortenberry indictment raises questions about the FBI’s tactics
Manchin raises red flags over Dems’ agenda ahead of Biden talk
Senate moves forward on raising debt ceiling by $2.5T
‘Quite hopeful’: Abortion pill decision could reshape reproductive health war
In Senate that ‘sucks,’ Dems wait for Biden’s word
Dems trudge toward 2022 with Biden’s megabill reeling
Cruz secures vote on Russian pipeline sanctions in deal with Schumer
White House lights up Manchin after he crushes Biden’s megabill
Manchin to Dems: Redo the whole thing, maybe I’ll vote for it
Dems’ 2022 prospect hit with one-two blow on economy
Hospitals grapple with Omicron – and legal brawl over vaccinating staff
Republicans are trying to pin the ‘Big Lie’ on Stacey Abrams
Biden’s about to adopt a policy that could hurt Dems even more with rural voters
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Price tag to vaccinate the world: $7 billion. And the U.S. is already coming up short.
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