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Taxidermy, attack ads, early voting and more: On the road in Iowa and Texas

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How Sha Na Na could help determine the House majority

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Alex Gibney and the odyssey of ‘Musk’

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Gathering threads: The stories defining the midterm elections

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What a long, strange primary season it’s been

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Congress punts on big issues

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The Roll Call and 535 deep dive on the affordability agenda

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The Roll Call and 535 Deep Dive on Surface Transportation Reauthorization

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The Roll Call and 535 Deep Dive on Permitting Reform

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The Roll Call and 535 Deep Dive on Cryptocurrency

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The dog days are here already for Congress

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Sean Astin on being a leader during a time of upheaval

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No more ‘Idiocracy’ references please; let's talk about the ads

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Rory Kennedy and the art of the documentary sequel

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DC/DOX Film Festival: A kaleidoscope of America and beyond

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You can't always get what you want, politics edition

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The sometimes fleeting status of Roll Call's Most Vulnerable Incumbent list

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Claustrophobic paranoid thriller? Count us in, ‘PH-1’

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A White House Correspondents Dinner like no other

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‘Shall I project a world?’ — ‘The Crying of Lot 49’ episode

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The numbers that define Congress

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How much does the Homeland Security shutdown matter to the public?

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March madness, gladness or sadness? Breaking down the month's congressional primaries

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Everything is being disrupted

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‘The Bleeding Edge’ bleeds into 2026

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That's entertainment! Or not. State of the Union 2026

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Spotlight on the National Press Club, and its new president

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Dishing about the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner

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Forecast shows chance of snow, shutdown

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Contempt for the Clintons?

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‘All the pieces matter’ in politics, just not equally

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The good, the bad and the meh: What we're watching in 2026

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A most consequential year for Congress

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Buy the 'Shadow Ticket,' take the ride

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Can Congress save itself?

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The re-re-redistricting chronicles

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There is no such things as an off-year in politics

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Taking the ‘Vineland’ express to ‘One Battle After Another’

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Immigration, race and ‘One Battle After Another'

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An Orwell movie for Orwellian times

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The great 'meh': Scenes from a shutdown

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Let’s get existential

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They seem fine: Life After Congress

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Discharge petition: congressional procedure or great band name?

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How Democrats hope to flip the script on energy as a campaign issue

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Off to the redistricting races

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Six months in, a gut check on Trump 2.0

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Rush job: Life in Congress

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'We had time back then'

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The ‘rock and roll poetry’ of Joe Iconis’ Hunter S. Thompson musical

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A short history of hoping people will change their minds

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It’s déjà tea party all over again

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The 'predicament and necessity' of documentary movies

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The grand tour of Washington

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That's a lot of Supreme Court there

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Call it the Most Not Invulnerable List

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Still vulnerable, even while batting .400

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Six degrees of 100 days ...

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Golden State meets ‘Golden Age’

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Much ado about special elections

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The Thai popcorn does not detract

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At the Gridiron, laughter in the dark

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Democrats at (in?) retreat

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Protest, retreat, hide? Congressional behavior, 2025-style

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‘Yeah, I don’t love that,’ or how the House learned to start jamming the Senate

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'If I can get you to feel' -- politics, wrestling and connecting with people

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‘Beauty never gets old’ -- Slava Leontyev in the ‘Porcelain War’

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Having a plan beats not having a plan

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Instability as norm? Or test?

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Pardon me? Tales of presidential pardons

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Appointed senators: The winners, seat-warmers, losers and weirdos

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So you say you want to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget

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Looking ahead to 2025's biggest political stories

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Revenge of the Senate

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Home improvements for the House

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A very judgy lame duck

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Who are these guys? The Congress-to-Cabinet revue

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5 big questions about this election with Nathan Gonzales

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The last Most Vulnerable Incumbents lists of the 2024 cycle

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But is it art? Unpacking ‘The Apprentice’

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What it means for an electoral race to be unstable

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‘War Game’: Rehearsing the uncomfortably plausible

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"Sleepy" but consequential term awaits Supreme Court

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Tales of the three-headed incumbent: Biden/Harris/Trump

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One last journey down Roll Call's Jersey Turnpike

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The surprises, lessons and exhaustion of the congressional primaries

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When political realignment happens before your eyes; Amanda Becker discusses ‘You Must Stand Up’

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Members of Congress get ready to kick out the jams

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Sweet (temporary) home Chicago

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DNC-adjacent: Stories in the convention’s orbit

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Ohio, the [political] heart of it all

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Yes things feel crazy, but elections are frequently chaotic, from LBJ to RBG and more

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Happy Days for Republicans in Milwaukee

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Just the facts, just the facts, with factba.se

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Nathan Gonzales just can't wait to get on the road again

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Two years in the post-Dobbs world

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When being ambassador to Iceland isn't enough

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Gathering in dark rooms: Sky Sitney on DC/DOX’s upcoming festival

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Summertime, and the political news is busy

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Primary colors: Breaking down the latest congressional contests