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Andrew Biggs
January 5, 2024
Tori Otten
Republican Congressman Complains His Party Has “Nothing” to Campaign On
Representative Andy Biggs made a startling admission on national TV.
January 5, 2023
Grace Segers
No Speaker, No Rules, No End in Sight: Inside the House’s Descent Into Purgatory
The uncertainty over Kevin McCarthy’s political future mirrors the existential limbo of the lower chamber.
January 3, 2023
Grace Segers
Kevin McCarthy Has Lost Control of the House GOP
The new GOP House majority predictably got bogged down in infighting over who will hold the speaker’s gavel. How many days of disarray are yet to come?
December 27, 2022
Tori Otten
Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Facing Her First Big Purity Test
The belle of the fringe-right ball is increasingly facing friendly fire since throwing in her lot with House Speaker–wannabe Kevin McCarthy.
November 21, 2022
Robert Schlesinger
Want to Know Donald Trump’s Standing in the GOP? Watch Kevin McCarthy.
The House GOP leader is a human weather vane.
July 29, 2021
Grace Segers
Masks Are Mandatory Again on Capitol Hill. It’s Not Going Well.
The reimplementation of Covid restrictions in the House chamber has outraged many Republicans—and they’re not shy about letting you know.
August 30, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Conservative Honesty On Social Security
August 8, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
Why Public Employees Are the New Welfare Queens
July 14, 2009
Zubin Jelveh
Sorting Out The Great Pet V. Human Health Care Debate
October 7, 2008
Jonathan Chait
Today's Wsj Chicanery

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