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February 10, 2025
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Sarah McBride’s Quiet Revolution on Capitol Hill
Delaware’s newest member of Congress is its first-ever openly transgender member. Why doesn’t she talk about it more?
November 19, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Nancy Mace Proves Again How Vile She Is With Attack on Trans Colleague
Representative Nancy Mace will do anything for some media attention. This time, she’s picking a fight with the first trans member of Congress, Sarah McBride.
November 6, 2024
Paige Oamek
Sarah McBride Becomes First Trans Member of Congress in Inspiring Win
Delaware is sending the first trans person to Congress.
June 26, 2023
Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani
Sarah McBride Aims to Be First Openly Trans Member of Congress
The Democratic lawmaker from Delaware formally announced her bid for the House of Representatives.
February 14, 2023
Walter Shapiro
Biden’s Ivy League Problem
For all the posturing as Amtrak Joe, the president has fallen into the same elite trap that has captured our political system.
November 6, 2012
Amanda Becker
“Smug, Snide, and Off the Mark”: An Ohioan Responds to Walter Kirn
October 30, 2012
Nate Cohn
Romney Has a Problem In Pennsylvania: Math
June 23, 2012
Jesse Zwick
This Man Has Identified a Piece of Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane—and May Really Know What Happened to Her
March 29, 2012
Jesse Zwick
Occupy Congress
March 26, 2012
Noam Scheiber
Your Must-Read of the Day, Wall St. Edition
March 9, 2012
Peter Baldwin
Tracing Europe’s Long Road to Economic Catastrophe
March 7, 2012
Ed Kilgore
Does Romney Have a 'Southern Problem'?
February 22, 2012
Alec MacGillis
Bob McDonnell Probes His Veep Chances For A Heartbeat
January 26, 2012
Paul Berman
Democracy and the Human Heart
January 3, 2012
Nathan Pippenger
How Does Marriage Equality Affect Same-Sex Couples?
July 25, 2011
Eliza Gray
Slideshow: Demon Sheep, Pink Tutus, and Other Ads by Fred Davis
July 13, 2011
Eliza Gray
Ad Absurdum
June 28, 2011
Jonathan Chait
Life In Ohio, A Continuing Series
June 10, 2011
Jonathan Bernstein
Michele Bachmann: Why She and Other Backbenchers Don’t Have a Chance
May 26, 2011
Jonathan Chait
The Health Care Regulatory Race To the Bottom

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