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mike lee
Tina Nguyen March 20, 2024
Fresh intel on the latest micro-dramas roiling Capitol Hill: How Republicans are working through their feelings about a TikTok ban, and the hardliner plot to intervene in Johnson’s budget legislation blitzkrieg.
David McIntosh
Tina Nguyen March 13, 2024
The China-based company targeted Trump allies in its efforts to prevent a ban, winning a group of unlikely converts. Alas, Republican insiders say, the influence campaign was poorly timed, out of touch, and came on too strong.
jim jordan
Tina Nguyen February 29, 2024
A timely conversation with Rep. Jim Jordan, the irascible House Republican leader, about the conference’s shifting red lines on the budget, the border, and funding for Ukraine.
Lachlan Murdoch arrives for the wedding of Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch at St. Brides Church on March 5, 2016, in London.
Tina Nguyen February 15, 2024
John Matze, the ousted Parler founder, is back with a media platform designed to “promote conversation and civil debate”—and $5 million of funding courtesy of Fox Corp.


mike johnson
Tina Nguyen February 8, 2024
The embattled House Speaker is enduring the lion’s share of Republican finger-pointing for yesterday’s humiliating, double-barreled legislative defeat. But as usual, there’s plenty of blame to go around.
donald trump border wall
Tina Nguyen February 1, 2024
The real inside conversation in the House about the G.O.P.’s nihilistic decision to convert the border crisis from a legislative matter into a stump issue (and convenient Trump talking point).
There are several factors working in Mike Johnson’s favor.
Tina Nguyen January 25, 2024
Inside the frazzled House Republican conference, a surprising new conventional wisdom is taking hold: Mike Johnson, despite his inability to appease MAGA hardliners, is achieving something like consensus that he’s become the least bad option.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) walks out of the West Wing with (from left to right) U.S. reps Mike Turner (R-AL), Mike Rogers (R-OH), and Mike McCaul (R-TX) on January 17, 2024, in Washington, D.C.
Tina Nguyen January 19, 2024
Sure, the speaker kept the government open a few more weeks, but the guy is running out of friends in a town not known for them.


On Wednesday, when Speaker Mike Johnson walked his conference through the contours of his deal with Chuck Schumer, his right flank revolted.
Tina Nguyen January 11, 2024
Congratulations, Speaker Mike Johnson: You’ve had this job for a couple months, you need to pass unpopular legislation with a one-vote margin, and now miscreants in your own party are already threatening that much-dreaded defenestration.
I wasn’t on the Tucker love/hate spectrum, myself, but as someone who’d worked for him and then moved on to more “mainstream” political reporting jobs at Vanity Fair, Politico and then Puck, I was fascinated with his metamorphosis.
Tina Nguyen January 4, 2024
On the evolution of Tucker Carlson, from his startup origins to Fox News exile and his decision to go solo. Adapted from the forthcoming book ‘The MAGA Diaries.’
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