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The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Rather than drop the bipartisanship theme, however, Biden and his aides have tried to redefine it, claiming that their proposals have support from both parties’ voters, even if not from elected officials. That’s not quite true, either. But Biden, nonetheless, has managed at least one significant bipartisan achievement. A different age Biden grew up politically in an environment very different than to...

WASHINGTON —  This is the March 5, 2021, edition of the Essential Politics newsletter. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get it in your inbox three times a week. On March 5, 2020, with only three dissenting votes, Congress passed the first COVID-19 relief bill, an $8.3-billion emergency measure that turned out to be the opening installment in a vast and expensive effort to deal with the costs of a deadly pandemic. President Biden. The political environment has changed. The bill passed the House last week on a near-party line vote of 219-212, with two Democrats and all the Republicans...

The latest news, analysis and insights from our politics teams from Sacramento to D.C. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. The prospect that a large part of their agenda could go nowhere, even though their party controls both houses of Congress and the White House, has angered many Democratic activists. They’ve put abolition of the filibuster into the spotlight to a degree not seen for nearly half a century. A book denouncing the filibuster by Adam Jentleson, a former aide to Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), has become required...

Richard Read, our Seattle bureau chief, who together with Hennessy-Fiske has been closely covering right-wing extremism. We spent yesterday afternoon discussing how social media, a very online president and far-right groups came together to feed not just the events of Jan. 6 but an ongoing national security threat. What emerged was a portrait of an extremist movement that — despite having lost Trump as a rallying point and become a target of law enforcement — remains determined to build long-term political clout. Advertisement Newsletter The latest news, analysis and insights from our pol...

Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. That’s especially true now. Republicans have gone from controlling the White House and both houses of Congress to having no control in just four years, making Trump the first Republican to suffer so thorough a reversal since Herbert Hoover in the Great Depression. But given the Democrats’ slender majorities in Congress and the usual pattern of the president’s party losing ground in the first midterm election, Republicans have reason to hope that they can regain the majority in one, ...