2021: POLITICO (364)

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

21 Masks That Capture the Politics of 2021

Big Tech’s Next Monopoly Game: Building the Car of the Future

Price tag to vaccinate the world: $7 billion. And the U.S. is already coming up short.

Which 2024 Candidates Won 2021?

‘He’s a press guy, I’m not’: How Harry Reid shaped Chuck Schumer

The Moral Pugilism of Harry Reid

I Predicted the Culture Wars Would End in 2021. Oops.

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