Gabriel Debenedetti
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Third Way Is Trying to Stop No Labels From Electing Trump
D.C.’s centrists used to be friends, until a few inexplicably went rogue. The resulting civil war has dragged in everyone from David Brooks to the Problem Solvers Caucus. → Read More
The Two Bidens Are Fighting Each Other Over the Debt Ceiling
The president started the debt-ceiling fight by saying he’d never negotiate, but he can’t seem to resist cutting deals. → Read More
Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s Translator, Leaves the White House
She explains the press to the president, preaches Twitter-is-not-real-life, and keeps the West Wing from leaking. → Read More
One of Democrats’ Biggest Draws This Year? Dave Matthews.
The decisive voting bloc in Georgia’s senate run off between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker are white suburban Generation X voters and Democrats have found just the right surrogate. → Read More
What Biden Privately Thinks About the Midterms
Behind closed doors, his 2022 priorities (like beating Ron Johnson) are also about his 2024 reelection. → Read More
Who’s the Change Agent Now?
A near-miraculous legislative breakthrough has revived this administration — along with a question, stretching to the earliest days of their partnership, about whether Joe Biden or Barack Obama understands the powers of the White House best. → Read More
The Super-High-Stakes 2022 Race No One Is Talking About
Charlie Crist has been Florida governor before. He thinks he can win again, toppling Ron DeSantis and sending the GOP into chaos in the process. → Read More
Why More and More Democrats Want Trump to Declare Soon
“It’d be terrible! We don’t want him back!” one leading Democratic pollster told me last week. “But it would highlight the contrast between Biden and Trump.” → Read More
The 3 Most Important Races in the Post-Roe Midterms
“The stakes have gone up because these races are fundamental to protecting democracy and abortion rights.” → Read More
How 4 Senators Finally Got Gun Control Done
“There are no moments of epiphany in American politics,” says Connecticut senator Chris Murphy. He and three colleagues worked hard and got a little bit lucky. → Read More
Biden’s Post-Midterms Pivot Could Start at Treasury
Janet Yellen has become a face of the inflation problem. Business-friendly Gina Raimondo is rumored as a potential successor. → Read More
There Has to Be a Backup Plan. There’s a Backup Plan, Right?
Inside the 2024 soul-searching that’s happening in every corner of the Democratic Party — except the White House. Joe Biden hasn’t formally announced his campaign for a second term, but in his mind there’s no question he’s running. → Read More
‘I Mean, We Need More Money’: An Exit Interview With the COVID Czar
Jeff Zients on funding gaps, misinformation, and the future of the virus. → Read More
Biden’s Theory of Escalation
The president doesn’t want a war, but he’s been eager to show Putin what he’s made of. → Read More
Is Biden Trying to Psych Putin Out?
As Vladimir Putin threatens — and perhaps backs off from — Ukraine — the Biden administration is attempting to manage a crisis in which it has limited leverage. → Read More
Is This the One Democrat Who’s Figured Out COVID?
Months ago, Colorado Governor Jared Polis struck a COVID balance that coastal governors are only just figuring out. Since the pandemic’s start, Colorado has the tenth-lowest COVID death rate per capita in the U.S. → Read More
What Democrats and Pollsters Missed in New Jersey
Republicans may be shy in responding to surveys, but not about turning out on Election Day, says one of the state’s top pollsters. → Read More
The Next Democratic Reckoning
There are no more low-turnout elections between Democrats and Republicans. And Tuesday’s results — a Republican victory in Virginia and a shockingly close finish in New Jersey — show that this often works to Republicans’ benefit. → Read More
It’s Election Day in Virginia and Democrats Are Very Nervous
Democrats are nervous for Terry McAuliffe on Virginia Election Day as he attempts to defeat Republican Glenn Youngkin with the support of Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, and other party leaders. → Read More
The Lucky Phil Murphy
How New Jersey’s governor got ahead of the backlash that has stung Democrats from coast to coast. → Read More