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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in San Francisco on Nov. 16, 2023.

Foreign Affairs

China's Xi says reunification with Taiwan 'inevitable,' ahead of crucial vote on island

By Victor Jack

Chairman of the House Select Committee on China Rep. Mike Gallagher delivers remarks.

‘Certain things require a machete’: House China Committee chair defends approach to Beijing

By Phelim Kine

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politics

The Absolute Worst Political Predictions of 2023

A lot of people got some things very wrong this year.

By Zack Stanton

Dr. Martin Seligman at home in Wynnewood, PA, in 2019.

Department of the Future

A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.

New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how.

By Mohar Chatterjee

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a town hall.

HISTORY DEPT.

Opinion | Why Was It So Hard for Nikki Haley to Say ‘Slavery’? History Has the Answer

The presidential candidate’s recent (and swiftly qualified) comments about the Civil War helped spread a myth that has warped American history for over a century.

Opinion by Joshua Zeitz

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks at a NASCAR race.

q&a

The New Republican Governors Chief Explains the Loss in Kentucky and How to Tackle Trump Tweets

As the new chair of the Republican Governors Association, Gov. Bill Lee has some advice for his party.

By Natalie Allison

U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they meet at the White House.

Washington and the World

The Biden Administration Is Quietly Shifting Its Strategy in Ukraine

For two years, Biden and Zelenskyy have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine. Now Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture.

By Michael Hirsh

Clockwise from top left: A photo collage with faces of Avril Haines, Tony Blinken, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden, Janet Yellen and Bill Burns; A side view of Nikki Haley shaking someone's hand, while she stands in between an American flag and a blue curtain; An illustration of a judge with a gavel, and his robe patterned with the shapes of protestors and activists; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sitting in his home in Brentwood, California, with a large bookshelf behind him.

Politics

23 Wild Stories That Explain Politics in 2023

Donald Trump and Taylor Swift, the broken House GOP, an oral history of the Ukraine war and much more from POLITICO Magazine’s year in review.

By POLITICO MAGAZINE

A photo illustration of politicians featuring Gretchen Whitmer, Matt Gaetz, Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley, and Pete Buttigieg

politics

Which 2028 Presidential Wannabe Had the Best Year?

Ambitious politicians spent 2023 jockeying for the presidential race on the horizon.

By Bill Scher

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Optics | Road Trip

What I Saw on the Dreary Road to 2024

For the past year, Politics Editor David Siders has been traveling across the country to chronicle how American politics is shifting. Here are some of the people and places he visited.

By David Siders

An illustration of the U.S. Capitol dome with images of George Santos, Lauren Boebert, Mike Johnson, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell and Jamaal Bowman popping out around it on a sunburst background

Congress

The George Santos Saga, Kevin McCarthy Implosion and Marjorie Taylor Greene Circus

Here are the 10 most bizarre moments in Congress this year.

By JC Whittington and Daniella Diaz

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Special Report

‘They Were Traumatized’: How a Private Equity-Associated Lender Helped Precipitate a Nursing-Home Implosion

Advocates for elderly people say loans from private lenders are enabling nursing-home operators to take cash out of their homes, jeopardizing their finances.

By Anita Raghavan

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investigation

She Immigrated Legally. She Married a U.S. Citizen. But She Was Denied Citizenship for Working in Legal Cannabis.

Federal officials consider immigrants “drug traffickers” even in states where cannabis has been legalized.

By Kaylee Tornay

Column | On Politics

Advice from a Democratic Unicorn

In a state that twice backed Trump, John Bel Edwards made himself the placid alternative to hair-on-fire populism and won two terms in the governor’s mansion — can he do it again?

By Jonathan Martin

INTERACTIVES

An illustration with photos of Donald Trump, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis.

Where the 2024 GOP candidate field stands

We put the presidential hopefuls into categories based roughly on their chances to get the GOP nomination.

Confetti surrounds calendar pages showing the months of the year with red, blue or gray diamonds. Each one represents an election.

It's primary season. Here's when every race is happening.

Your guide to all the real-time results

ELECTIONS

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tenn.

24 for ’24: The numbers that will shape a crucial year in politics

By Steven Shepard

Nikki Haley, welcome to the Thunderdome

By Alex Isenstadt and Natalie Allison

Secretary of State Shenna Bellows attends the inauguration of Gov. Janet Mills.

Republicans bash Maine secretary of state for Trump ballot decision

By Olivia Alafriz

Rep. Lucy McBath speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol.

Court locks in Georgia's new map that draws Rep. Lucy McBath out of her district

By Zach Montellaro

WHITE HOUSE

Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter and FTC Chair Lina Khan talk at the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Spring Meeting in Washington.

Biden administration readies a big swing at big businesses in 2024

With an election around the corner, the clock is ticking on the administration to execute its anti-monopoly pledges.

By Josh Sisco

A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with an image of a North Korean military parade.

To stem North Korea’s missiles program, White House looks to its hackers

By John Sakellariadis

Biden signs defense policy bill, extending controversial spying program

By Connor O’Brien

President Joe Biden walks to Marine One for departure from the South Lawn of the White House.

Biden: Trump's an insurrectionist but courts can decide his ballot fate

By Elena Schneider, Myah Ward, Eugene Daniels and Holly Otterbein

CONGRESS

John Fetterman walks through U.S. Capitol.

John Fetterman isn’t the politician you thought he’d be — and he doesn’t care

The Pennsylvania Democrat has some thoughts to share on Biden, the left and James Carville, too.

By Holly Otterbein

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., the Democrats' chief negotiator on the border security talks, speaks to reporters about their efforts to reach a deal that would unlock President Joe Biden's request for billions of dollars worth in military aid for Ukraine and national security, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

No border deal yet, Murphy says, as senators prepare to return in a week

By Ursula Perano

Rep. Mike Rogers arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting.

Alabama lawmakers vow to keep fighting on Space Command, and it could involve Trump

By Connor O’Brien

Jason Smith, left, Jim Jordan, center, and James Comer speak with reporters.

House GOP traps itself in impeachment box

By Jordain Carney

LEGAL

Special counsel: Trump immunity claim threatens democracy

Special counsel Jack Smith rejected Donald Trump’s contention that the criminal indictment of him is constitutionally invalid.

By Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney

Maine secretary of state defends Trump ballot decision despite 'complexity'

She removed Trump from the ballot. Now, she's defending her decision.

By Zach Montellaro

Donald Trump delivers remarks into a microphone during a campaign rally.

Everything you need to know about Trump and the 14th Amendment

By Zach Montellaro and Kyle Cheney

Rep. Jeff Fortenberr was charged with lying to federal investigators about an illegal 2016 contribution to his campaign from a foreign national. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Appeals court reverses conviction against Jeff Fortenberry

By Eric Bazail-Eimil

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Photo illustration of various exterior and interior photos of 24 Sussex, the Canadian prime minister’s official residence along with background elements of architecture plans and rat traps.

Love it or list it: Canada’s most famous fixer-upper

24 Sussex Drive is officially the official home of the prime minister. Truthfully, it’s rodent-plagued and rotting, a running joke that has been all but abandoned.

By Maura Forrest and Nick Taylor-Vaisey