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Analysis: What Portman's retirement really means

Nothing in American politics happens in a vacuum.
Fact check: Hawley makes misleading denial

One of the few US senators who led the effort to object to the electoral college results on January 6, Josh Hawley is now claiming that he was never trying to overturn the 2020 election.
Where Biden's Cabinet nominees stand
Analysis: What's next in Trump's impeachment

The House voted to impeach President Donald Trump on January 14, but waited until Monday to complete the next step in the process -- having House managers read the single article of impeachment aloud on the House floor and then walking it over to the Senate.
Lawmaker who asked racist question about Black hygiene tapped to lead state health panel

A GOP Ohio lawmaker who asked a racist question last year about whether "the colored population" was contracting Covid-19 at higher rates because of poor hygiene has been tapped to lead the state Senate's health panel.
How we can keep health care workers safe

During the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been well-intentioned calls to honor our health care workers. But to truly honor them, we need to keep them safe. Keeping health workers safe is not just a moral imperative -- it is a practical one as well. Our lives depend on it.
On immigration, Biden seeks a new approach to an old deadlock

President Joe Biden's early moves on immigration signal his determination to learn from past efforts to reform the system, but that doesn't mean he won't repeat their legacy of frustration.
This town powered the US for decades. Now what?

This Wyoming coal town is a place of contradictions. At dawn, the land looks heavenly: Winds rattle the sagebrush; cotton-candy skies make a dusting of snow glow in pastel hues. Later in the afternoon, though, you look to the horizon and see the Earth hemorrhaging gray dust as trucks haul coal from pits the size of suburbs.