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Surging gasoline prices bring back memories of past energy wars
American gas stations displaying high prices this summer and fall will matter more than all the campaign billboards put together in affecting the November midterm elections.
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It's a cliché to call an election-year Congress do-nothing. The history doesn't match
There's no law against making laws in an election year. There are special challenges, but the hurdles may loom larger in lore than in reality.
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Week in politics: Biden leads NATO in denouncing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
President Biden succeeded in unifying NATO's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which may give him more credibility to pursue his domestic agenda.
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This won't be the first State of the Union speech given during a crisis
Even when under maximum pressure, presidents have viewed the speech as a unique opportunity to make their case to the rest of the government, to the nation as a whole and to the wider world as well.
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Week in politics: Russia and China align; RNC justifies Jan. 6; job growth
The leaders of Russia and China solidified their ties, and the Republican National Committee suggested the Jan. 6 riots were "legitimate political discourse."
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From Washington to Trump to Biden, new presidents meet unwanted foreign crises
From George Washington's warning against "foreign entanglements" to Donald Trump's "America First," the pledge to keep the focus close to home has been almost as constant as the oath of office itself.
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Week in politics: U.S. troops on alert at Russia-Ukraine border; Breyer retiring
Tensions at the Ukraine-Russia border. Plus, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer's resignation and President Biden's pledge to nominate the first-ever Black woman Supreme Court justice.
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Biden's predecessors could have felt his first-year pain
Yet these early reversals haven't always been crippling. On the contrary, three of the past four presidents elected — and five of the past eight — have recovered from shaky starts to win re-election.
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Senate Democrats plan a vote to change the filibuster. So what is it?
The filibuster was once a rarely used tool for holding up Senate business. Now, it's a regular (still powerful) feature; some Democrats want it changed. Here are answers to your filibuster questions.
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Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state
If America has another civil war, it is more likely to be a war within the states than between them. Citizens of any state of any size, red or blue, may not have to go far to find a fight.