Is the Republican Speakership Cursed? Mike Johnson Is About to Find Out.

Is the Republican Speakership Cursed? Mike Johnson Is About to Find Out.

Republicans didn’t have a speaker for 40 years until Newt Gingrich finally reclaimed the gavel for the party in 1995 after decades in the wilderness. But hanging on to it…

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Jordan Activates Right-Wing Campaign in Push to Win Speakership

Jordan Activates Right-Wing Campaign in Push to Win Speakership

Representative Jim Jordan and his allies have begun a right-wing pressure campaign against Republicans opposed to electing him speaker, working to unleash the rage of the party’s base voters against…

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McCarthy’s fall from speakership was sudden but no surprise

McCarthy’s fall from speakership was sudden but no surprise

“How did you go bankrupt?” a character asks in one of Ernest Hemingway’s classic novels. “Gradually,” was the famous response. “Then suddenly.” And so it is for the politically and…

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Inside McCarthy’s Shutdown Turnabout That Left His Speakership at Risk

Inside McCarthy’s Shutdown Turnabout That Left His Speakership at Risk

Speaker Kevin McCarthy began the final day before a government shutdown pinned against the ropes, facing dim prospects of passing any stopgap funding measure to avert the crisis that was…

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Pelosi on the Grateful Dead, Dylan, the Stones and post speakership

Pelosi on the Grateful Dead, Dylan, the Stones and post speakership

SAN FRANCISCO —  Bob Weir was cold. It was a partly cloudy July night and temperatures were falling as Dead & Co. played before tens of thousands of fans in San…

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