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When Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 47th president, he will have been the most dominant Republican political figure since at least 2015. When he finishes his term, he’ll have spent close to a decade and a half atop American politics. While I find him repugnant, we should probably put away the word “normalize” in…

President Joe Biden’s farewell this week isn’t just the end to his four years in office, but the capstone of a political career that spanned a half-century, starting as the youngest person elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 and ending as the oldest outgoing president in 2025. In his farewell address from the Oval…

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In a win for transparency, Volume 1 of special counsel Jack Smith’s investigative report, documenting Donald Trump’s alleged 2020 election subversion crimes, was released Tuesday, reminding readers of what the report calls Trump’s “unprecedented criminal effort to overturn the legitimate results of the election in order to retain power.” Now the less good news: Judge…

President-elect Donald Trump’s success despite constantly saying the quiet part out loud seems to have spread among other Republicans. The most recent example is Ohio GOP Chair Alex Triantafilou, who made an appalling admission last week when he claimed the GOP’s “strategy” of “confusing Ohioans” had succeeded in thwarting an anti-gerrymandering ballot initiative that would…

This is an adapted excerpt from MSNBC’s Jan. 15 special coverage of President Joe Biden’s farewell address. On Wednesday, President Joe Biden delivered his farewell speech to the nation. During my time in the White House, I was there for many Biden speeches. I helped the president prepare for them. And I can tell you,…

As nominees for a cabinet position prepare for the Senate confirmation process, it’s common practice for them to have an experienced point person to help serve as a guide. When Donald Trump announced that John Ratcliffe would be his choice to lead the CIA, for example, Michael Allen, a longtime Republican national security expert, joined…

At least so far, only one of Donald Trump’s cabinet choices has collapsed in the face of bipartisan opposition: Former Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida was chosen to lead the Justice Department, only to withdraw from consideration eight days later. It’s possible, however, that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, the president-elect’s choice to serve as…

TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to attend Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, NBC News has confirmed. The news comes as the app’s executives are desperately trying to halt a law that would ban TikTok in the United States unless it’s sold by its Chinese owners. The ban of the controversial app — which has become…

This is an adapted excerpt from the Jan. 14 episode of “Alex Wagner Tonight.” Los Angeles is in its second week of fighting the largest fires the city has ever seen. The fires have already collectively burned an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, displaced more than 100,000 people and killed at least…