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Will Doing 'the Right Thing' Cost Speaker Johnson?

It took less than six months for Speaker Mike Johnson to reach his existential moment. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful but familiar crossroads where he must either choose to honor a conventional vision of US national interests or side with the wrecking ball antics of his party's far-right bloc.

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Trump Can't Be in Two Places at Once in Courtroom Drama

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Biden Up Against Nostalgia for Trump's First Term

President Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it's a harder card to play now that he's in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president's chaotic term.

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Trump Will Go From the Trial to the Trail and Back Again

Donald Trump will make his most concentrated effort yet to turn his criminal trial into a political asset in the next two days, heading from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again.

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Student Unrest Ratchets Up an Already Tense Election Year

Dramatic campus protests are injecting an inflammatory new element into an election year that is already threatening to stretch national unity to a breaking point.

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Why Biden Cannot Afford a Boiling Summer of Protest

President Joe Biden can ill afford a long, hot summer of protest that comes to a boil in time for the Democratic National Convention in August and then bleeds into the final weeks of an already venomous clash with Donald Trump.

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2024's New Political Normal Six Months From the Election

Donald Trump, the Republican presumptive nominee who just falsely accused his opponents of running a "Gestapo" administration, will be back in a New York courtroom on Monday at his criminal trial - the first of an ex-president in history.

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Israel Is Just One of Biden's Immense Election Challenges