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Grace Segers

Grace Segers is a staff writer at The New Republic, where she covers Congress and politics. Previously, she worked as a political reporter for CBS News, where she covered two Supreme Court confirmations, two elections, two impeachment trials, a pandemic, and an insurrection. She also served as a digital reporter for City & State New York. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.

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June 14, 2022
Grace Segers
The Defense Production Act Is Biden’s Gridlock-Buster
The president has been forced to go it alone thanks to a stalled Congress.
June 14, 2022
Grace Segers
Obi-Wan Kenobi and the Inevitability of More Star Wars
The main purpose of the new Disney+ show is to act as a bridge between one Star Wars series and the next. For the streaming service, that’s all it needs to be.
June 10, 2022
Grace Segers
“It Was Carnage, It Was Chaos”
The January 6 commission brought shocking new footage and testimony to its prime-time debut Thursday night.
June 9, 2022
Grace Segers
Two Houses of Congress, Two Different Gun Safety Missions
The raring-to-go House voted on a package of gun safety bills, but the filibuster-fied Senate is working on a slow-but-steady timetable.
June 3, 2022
Grace Segers
“It’s the Floor, It’s Not the Ceiling”: What Gun Safety Advocates Think of the Bipartisan Proposals on Capitol Hill
Advocates say there is more momentum than ever before. But nothing is guaranteed.
June 2, 2022
Grace Segers
The Democrats Fighting to Make Iowa Purple Again
Former Representative Abby Finkenauer is part of a crowded field trying to both unseat Senator Chuck Grassley and restore their party’s fortunes in the Hawkeye State.
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
Grace Segers
Republicans Return to “Hardening” Schools as Their Solution to Shootings
What’s the answer to gun violence? More guns, naturally.
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 26, 2022
Grace Segers
Democrats Look to Women Voters to Save Their Bacon in the Midterms
Inflation, abortion rights, and rising childcare costs are the kinds of issues that motivate women to vote. But which party will they support once they get there?
May 25, 2022
Grace Segers
“We Are Caught in the Most Perverse Version of Groundhog Day”
Democrats are sick over the Uvalde massacre, but no one has a plan to get a bipartisan gun reform bill past the Senate filibuster.
May 23, 2022
Grace Segers
New York’s Redistricting Has Caused a “Train Wreck of Democrats’ Own Creation”
Democrats in New York gerrymandered too close to the sun, and now they’re paying the price.
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 18, 2022
Grace Segers
Kurt Schrader Could Be the Next Establishment Democrat Toppled by a Progressive Challenger
The Big Pharma–friendly congressman from Oregon’s 5th district is lagging Jamie McLeod-Skinner in Tuesday’s primary results. How big a bellwether is it for the left?
May 18, 2022
Grace Segers
The Baby Formula Crisis Shows the Risks of Corporate Concentration
The government may be able to provide a quick fix to the deepening emergency. Solving the problem’s root cause will be substantially more difficult.
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.
May 11, 2022
Grace Segers
Sharice Davids Has Money on Her Mind as She Plots a Course to Reelection
In an interview with The New Republic, Kansas’s lone Democrat says she’s focused on boosting the economic fortunes of her constituents and staving off the effects of inflation.
May 10, 2022
Grace Segers
Overturning Roe Could Make Ectopic Pregnancies Extremely Dangerous
Treatment for this rare condition is separate from abortion care. But the sweeping abortion bans being considered in some states could have deadly consequences.
April 29, 2022
Grace Segers, Daniel Strauss
Finally, We Know There Will Be Hearings. Will America Care?
The House select committee will hold eight hearings in June. They’re its one shot at making Americans care about the attempted coup d’état we all saw.
April 28, 2022
Grace Segers
“It Would Be Huge”: Democrats Cheer Biden’s Baby Steps on Canceling Student Debt
The president said on Thursday that he was mulling some form of forgiveness, although he stopped short of the $50,000 figure for which some have lobbied.

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