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The House G.O.P Has Its Leader. But Can He Be a Rainmaker?

The former speaker, Kevin McCarthy, was a prolific fund-raiser for his House colleagues. The new speaker, Mike Johnson, doesn’t yet…

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Welcome, Speaker Johnson, to the Worst Job in Politics

Congratulations are due to Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who as the new speaker of the House has inherited the…

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The Trump Loyalty Test at the Center of Republicans’ Speaker Endgame

The developments on Capitol Hill highlighted the extent to which one of the greatest sins inside the Republican Party is…

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House Declares Solidarity With Israel in First Legislation Under New Speaker

The resolution pledges to support Israel with whatever it needs as it fights Hamas. It passed overwhelmingly, but a small…

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The Speakership Is Yours, Mike Johnson. Good Luck With That.

That House speaker mess was all Donald Trump’s fault. Yeah, yeah, I know you’re not going to argue with me…

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The Far Right Gets Its Man of the House

The new speaker, Mike Johnson, is virtually unknown to most Americans, but he can be expected to press a hard-right…

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Another Day of G.O.P. Chaos Winds Up With Speaker Nominee No. 4

House Republicans turned on themselves as they immolated yet another of their leaders in the bonfires of the speaker fight.…

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‘Chaos Doesn’t Scare Me. American Decline Does.’

Jim Jordan’s bid last week to become speaker of the House — together with the withdrawal on Tuesday of Thomas…

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How the Right’s Purity Tests Are Haunting the House G.O.P.

When Casey Stengel had the misfortune to be the manager of the historically inept 1962 New York Mets, his famous…

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‘5 Families’ and Factions Within Factions: Why the House G.O.P. Can’t Unite

The Republican free-for-all for speaker reflects a web of overlapping blocs that have made the party nearly ungovernable.

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