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Politics - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com The website that Washington lives by. Wed, 21 Jun 2023 14:19:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://dev.w-cm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Politics - Washingtonian https://dev.w-cm.com 32 32 Marjorie Taylor Green vs. Dr. Dre Joins the Long History of Politicians Beefing With Musicians https://dev.w-cm.com/2023/01/11/marjorie-taylor-green-vs-dr-dre-joins-the-long-history-of-politicians-beefing-with-musicians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marjorie-taylor-green-vs-dr-dre-joins-the-long-history-of-politicians-beefing-with-musicians Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:26:59 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1617709 As a premier content creator for the Fox News Cinematic Universe, US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has many fans. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Dr. Dre is not among them. Earlier this week, the producer and rapper expressed his displeasure over Greene using the beat from his 1999 song “Still D.R.E.” on a social media video clip by […]

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5 Things to Know About Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democrats’ New Leader https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/11/30/5-things-to-know-about-hakeem-jeffries-the-house-democrats-new-leader/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-things-to-know-about-hakeem-jeffries-the-house-democrats-new-leader Wed, 30 Nov 2022 21:17:51 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1610810 New York Representative Hakeem Jeffries will become the top Democrat in the House of Representatives—and the first Black lawmaker to lead either party on Capitol Hill—when the new Congress is sworn in next year. Jeffries’s unanimous election by his fellow Democratic lawmakers comes less than two weeks after the current Speaker of the House, 82-year-old Nancy […]

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What Will It Mean for DC, Maryland, and Virginia If Roe v. Wade Is Repealed? Here’s What You Need to Know. https://dev.w-cm.com/2022/05/03/what-happens-without-roe-dc-maryland-virginia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-happens-without-roe-dc-maryland-virginia Tue, 03 May 2022 15:15:15 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=408218 This post was originally published on July 20, 2018; it was updated on May 3, 2022. In the matter of a few hours, abortion rights once again moved to the center of America’s political conversation. On Monday night, Politico published a leaked draft opinion that suggested the Supreme Court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade. The […]

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Jonathan Rauch: The Washingtonian Interview https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/10/06/jonathan-rauch-the-washingtonian-interview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jonathan-rauch-the-washingtonian-interview Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:00:13 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1551322 In American usage, “liberal” once connoted left-of-center politics—something that tended to baffle people familiar with the word’s actual history. But now the term has been supplanted by “progressive,” allowing those like Jonathan Rauch—a Brookings scholar who has written about Washington for years—to re-embrace its older meaning, which refers to a system built around a certain […]

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The Virginia Democratic Ticket Is All From Northern Virginia https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/06/09/the-virginia-democratic-ticket-is-all-from-northern-virginia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-virginia-democratic-ticket-is-all-from-northern-virginia Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:50:37 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1535238 Besides winning their primaries last night, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Hala Ayala, and Attorney General Mark Herring all have one thing in common: They live in Northern Virginia. So does Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin. Northern Virginia has not only been the engine of Virginia’s shift to a blue state, it’s also […]

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Where Does Abby Phillip Go From Here? https://dev.w-cm.com/2021/02/08/where-does-abby-phillip-go-from-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-does-abby-phillip-go-from-here Mon, 08 Feb 2021 12:00:58 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1429562 Abby Phillip’s breakthrough moment came during those tense, hazy days after the election, when results were still rolling in, election nerds were toggling back and forth between Steve Kornacki and John King, and the networks hadn’t yet called it for Joe Biden. “Can I just say, for Black women, this has been really a proving […]

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These Are the Most Influential Operatives on the Biden Campaign https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/10/26/these-are-the-most-influential-operatives-on-the-biden-campaign/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=these-are-the-most-influential-operatives-on-the-biden-campaign Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:00:03 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1311812 Jen O’Malley Dillon Campaign manager The longtime operative cofounded a political-consulting firm, Precision Strategies, with two other Obama alums after playing key roles in both of the President’s campaigns. She started off the 2020 election cycle managing Beto O’Rourke’s White House bid. Dana Remus General counsel One of two lawyers heading a sprawling legal operation […]

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Susan Glasser and Peter Baker Talk About Their New Book on James A. Baker III https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/10/01/susan-glasser-and-peter-baker-talk-about-their-new-book-on-james-a-baker-iii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=susan-glasser-and-peter-baker-talk-about-their-new-book-on-james-a-baker-iii Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:32:06 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1287298 Journalism power-couple Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, and Peter Baker, the New York Times’ chief White House correspondent, have cowritten The Man Who Ran Washington, a biography of former Secretary of State and White House chief of staff James A. Baker III, arguably the 20th century’s savviest DC power player. Baker […]

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https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/07/28/ted-yoho-aoc-wont-apologize-for-loving-god-country-and-family/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ted-yoho-aoc-wont-apologize-for-loving-god-country-and-family Tue, 28 Jul 2020 19:07:26 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1185791 Last week, after US Rep. Ted Yoho called his colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a “fucking bitch,” his subsequent statement of contrition included this qualifier: “I cannot apologize for my passion, or for loving my God, my family, and my country.” I disagree. Congressman Yoho, it’s time for you to apologize for your love of God, family […]

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Mary Trump’s Shocking Book About the President Isn’t Very Shocking for “Trump on the Couch” Psychiatrist Justin Frank https://dev.w-cm.com/2020/07/17/the-trump-on-the-couch-author-justin-frank-has-some-thoughts-about-the-scathing-new-book-by-the-presidents-psychologist-niece-mary-trump/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-trump-on-the-couch-author-justin-frank-has-some-thoughts-about-the-scathing-new-book-by-the-presidents-psychologist-niece-mary-trump Fri, 17 Jul 2020 17:48:27 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1174654 In a publishing market saturated with books about President Trump, a scathing new release by his niece Mary Trump has broken out as a smash bestseller—in part because the Trumps tried to stop its release, and in part because it offers something novel: a professional psychologist drawing on personal experience to paint a family portrait […]

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