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Associated Press Stacey Abrams’s New Strategy for Democrats
In her response to the president’s State of the Union address, the former Georgia legislator pushed voting rights to the heart of her party’s agenda.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times via … Trump’s Call for Unity Was Never Going to Be Real
In a long and sometimes strange State of the Union address, the president exalted bipartisanship—without displaying a strategy, or a will, for achieving it.
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AP Trump’s Revealing Immigration Ad Lib
Is the president ready to strike a compromise deal?
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Leah Millis / Reuters Read Stacey Abrams’s Rebuttal to the State of the Union Address
The former candidate for Georgia governor is considered a rising star in the Democratic Party.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Read President Trump’s Second State of the Union Address
The speech comes as Congress is trying to prevent a second government shutdown.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Weak Case Against Investigating Trump
The president claimed in his State of the Union address both that bipartisan legislation is impossible if he is subjected to partisan investigations—and that he has already signed several important bipartisan bills into law.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The State of the President
Americans don’t need anyone else to tell them how the country is doing. So Tuesday's address is really a checkup on Trump.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump’s Hollow Call for Unity
A president who disdains acting presidential is unlikely to achieve much by relying on convention.
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John Bazemore / AP Why Democrats Picked Stacey Abrams to Deliver Their Trump Counterpunch
The decision to tap Abrams for their State of the Union response reflects the importance of this year’s address to the party.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Blame Democrats for the State of the Union Circus
The tradition has mutated into something bigger, dumber, and more dysfunctional than the Framers ever could have imagined.
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Will McNamee / Getty / Zak Bickel / … The (Annotated) State of the Union
A former White House speechwriter poses the key questions about the speech, and annotates its text.
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Will McNamee / Getty / Zak Bickel / … Trump Is Making 2018 Much Harder for Republicans
The three main ways the president is shaping congressional races, as seen in his first State of the Union
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Win McNamee / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Here's What to Read After Trump's First State of the Union Address
Takeaways on immigration, North Korea, and more
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Reuters Trump Doesn't Mention Climate Change in His State of the Union
“We have endured floods, and fires, and storms,” he said, without saying what made them all worse.
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Pool / Reuters Is Trump Preparing for War With North Korea?
The omissions in the State of the Union, and the fate of Victor Cha, all point in the same direction.
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Win McNamee / Reuters The State of the Union Is Unrecognizable
A long, surprisingly standard speech ignored the tumultuous lived reality of American politics over the past year—and the likely reality in the year to come.
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Pool / Reuters The Transcript of Trump’s State of the Union Address
The president discussed immigration, trade, infrastructure, and the economy in his speech before a joint session of Congress.
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Luke Frazza / Pool / Reuters 16 Years of Presidents Talking About the War in Afghanistan
And the war keeps going
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump's First State of the Union
In his speech before a joint session of Congress, the president said the country "is strong because our people are strong."
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP A Very Familiar State of the Union
With no infrastructure plan, no border wall, and no immigration bill, Trump didn’t make much headway on most of the proposals he issued in his first address to Congress last year. So he’ll be outlining them again on Tuesday night.
