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Daniel Strauss

Daniel Strauss is a staff writer at The New Republic. He previously was a senior political reporter for The Guardian. Before that he spent four and a half years as a politics reporter at Politico. He has also been a reporter for Talking Points Memo and The Hill newspaper.

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September 21, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Meet the Ex–Football Player and the Tattooed LGBTQ Physician Leading the White House’s Monkeypox Fight
The monkeypox outbreak has cooled, but it’s far from over. Bob Fenton and Demetre Daskalakis still have a big job on their hands.
September 8, 2022
Daniel Strauss
What Is Peter Thiel Thinking?
An interview with Max Chafkin, author of “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power,” on how J.D. Vance and Blake Masters came to be part of Thiel’s political project
September 8, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Why North Carolina in 2022 Could Cost Biden Dearly in 2024
Republicans could be poised to return veto-proof majorities in the state houses. Goodbye, abortion rights. So long, voting rights.
August 31, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Rick Scott’s Shadow Presidential Campaign Is Frustrating His Fellow Republicans
The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee seems a lot more focused on getting himself elected in 2024 than he is on helping Mitch McConnell take back the Senate.
August 24, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Meet the Man Fighting to Keep Arizona Honest in 2024
Mark Finchem, the extremist Republican candidate for Arizona secretary of state, gets tons of press. It’s time to get to know Democrat Adrian Fontes.
August 18, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Why are the Florida-Based Trumps Suddenly Interested in New York Politics Again?
Donald Trump Jr. is weighing in on a heated MAGA primary in a Long Island congressional district, and his father is trying to spoil Democratic primaries elsewhere.
August 17, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Jamie Raskin Vows That Liz Cheney Will “Follow Trump to the Gates of Hell”
The Maryland congressman talks about what’s next for Washington’s most unlikely friendship now that Wyoming Republicans have voted Cheney out of office.
August 11, 2022
Daniel Strauss
What Does It Take for Document-Shredding Trump To Hoard Something?
What would make the same paper-shredding-president opt to keep a safe with documents that might incriminate him in federal crimes?
August 11, 2022
MagazineGrace Segers, Daniel Strauss
The Bland Ambition of Kevin McCarthy
The Bakersfield Republican has everything it takes to rise to the top in today’s GOP: zero interest in policy, relentless thirst for power, and slavish loyalty to Trump. If this man becomes speaker of the House—look out, America.
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August 10, 2022
Daniel Strauss, Alex Shephard
Cable News? A Presidential Run? Here’s What Liz Cheney Might Do If (When) She Loses Reelection.
While the conservative Wyoming congresswoman—and unlikely hero for many Democrats—is likely to lose her seat in Congress, she won't be quitting the political scene any time soon.
August 3, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Kansas Voters Just Rewrote the Script for the Midterm Elections
The overwhelming rejection in deep-red Kansas of an anti-abortion referendum suggests that there may be a hidden army of voters out there who are furious about the Dobbs decision.
July 29, 2022
Daniel Strauss
It Looks Like Slimy Eric Greitens Is Too Much Even for Missouri Republicans
The scandal-scarred former governor has dropped precipitously in the polls in his Senate run—and that probably dims the Democrats’ chances.
July 20, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Ron Johnson Can’t Crawl out of the January 6 Hole He Dug for Himself
That green intern who tried to pass fake electors to Mike Pence was in fact a very seasoned and partisan operative. And increasingly, it’s an issue in the senator’s reelection campaign.
June 24, 2022
Daniel Strauss
Biden Will Get His Man at ATF. But What Will Steve Dettelbach Do?
The famed and troubled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives hasn’t had a head since 2015. It may now get one—but only because he’s taken so few stands in order to get confirmed.
June 22, 2022
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
“We Should Be Graphic”: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on How Democrats Should Respond to the End of Roe
“I don’t think we should be coy. I don’t think we should be abstract,” said the vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association.
May 27, 2022
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
Jan. 6 Recap: Trump Cheered the Chant of “Hang Mike Pence!”
And it was … interesting to see the “bipartisan” No Labels group come out and say that the House select committee is “a partisan exercise.”
May 26, 2022
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
The Next Big Primary: Can Liz Cheney Beat Trump and the Wyoming GOP?
The state Republican Party chairman is a serious extremist. Cheney’s opponent, once anti-Trump, now loves him. Can Cheney hang on?
May 24, 2022
Daniel Strauss
The Crypto Kings Are Making Big Political Donations. What Could Go Wrong?
Sam Bankman-Fried may have lost in Oregon, but he and other crypto big shots have discovered politics. What will Democrats do for them in return?
May 20, 2022
Daniel Strauss, Grace Segers
January 6 Recap: An Aggressive (!) Move by the Justice Department
The request for House select committee transcripts could mean something really big is happening at DOJ.
May 17, 2022
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
Pennsylvania May Be Democrats’ Best Hope for a Senate Pickup in 2022
The GOP candidates vying for the Keystone State’s seat in the upper house are wildly out of the mainstream. That doesn’t mean Democrats can beat them.

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