Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your wrap-up of the week in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host. For decades, Republicans were the party of big business, working hard to align themselves with corporations in their preferences for lower taxes and fewer regulations. This week, they embraced a new form of economic growth: cancel culture capitalism. In a political twist, […]
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The U.S. State Department on Friday issued new guidelines that will enable U.S. officials to meet more freely with officials from Taiwan. Another State Department spokesman said the new guidelines meant, for example, that working-level meetings with Taiwanese officials were now encouraged in federal buildings and could also take place at Taiwan's representative office. The State Department announcement comes at […]
Read morePresident Joe Biden issued a statement hours after the news broke on Friday that Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth’s husband of more than 70 years, had died at age 99. “On behalf of all the people of the United States, we send our deepest condolences to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the entire Royal Family, and all the people of the […]
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Read moreTucker Carlson on Thursday served up a blatantly racist hot take on immigration at the border, saying Democrats are trying to “replace the current electorate” with “more obedient voters from the Third World.” (Watch the video below.) “That’s what’s actually happening,” the Fox News host insisted, dismissing suggestions he’s preaching “white replacement theory.” “Everybody wants to make a racial issue […]
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John Boehner, the former Republican House Speaker, wrote in his forthcoming memoir that he regrets supporting former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment. He argued that the impeachment was a political effort by his party to win House seats in the midterms. “I regret it now,” Boehner wrote of Clinton’s impeachment. “I regret that I didn’t fight against it.” See more stories […]
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A video has surfaced of Donald Trump being greeted at an airport by a man at the center of Rep. Matt Gaetz’s sex trafficking allegations. Jason Pirozzolo met Trump, then president, along with Gov. Ron DeSantis in Florida in 2019. Pirozzolo is accused of paying for female escorts for Gaetz on a Bahamas trip in 2018 or 2019. See more […]
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court in California refused Thursday to permit 14 states led by Republican governors to challenge the overturning of a Trump-era immigration rule affecting hundreds of thousands of people. A panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against permitting intervention by the states, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. At issue was […]
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7 Republicans are running in the Virginia gubernatorial primary. Several candidates are touting their MAGA bona fides. A nominating convention is set for May 8. Governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general candidates face ranked-choice voting. See more stories on Insider’s business page. The Virginia governor's race boasts a dozen challengers vying to replace term-limited Democrat Ralph Northam. Five Democrats, including […]
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