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  1. life after roe
    Senate Takes Up Funding Bill After House Passage
    Tuberville and Republicans Are Tripping All Over the Alabama IVF DecisionMany Republicans are abandoning “fetal personhood” doctrines amid backlash to the Alabama ruling. Tuberville and Nikki Haley haven’t been so nimble.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. politics
    Senate Republicans Are Finally Sick of Tommy TubervilleSeveral of his Senate colleagues challenged his block on military nominations by forcing a vote Wednesday evening.
    By Nia Prater
  3. the inside game
    Joe Biden vs. Tommy Tuberville: How the President Picks His EnemiesTommy Tuberville is just the latest Republican foil.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  4. early and often
    Tommy Tuberville (Eventually) Admits White Nationalists Are RacistInstead of just disassociating himself with white nationalism and changing the subject, the Alabama senator kept digging a deeper hole.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. politics
    The Marine Corps Is Leaderless Because a Senator Is Mad About AbortionTommy Tuberville continues to block all Department of Defense nominees over a policy that covers servicemembers’ travel expenses for abortions.
    By Nia Prater
  6. early and often
    Republicans on Trump-Carroll Verdict: Ask Again LaterPro- and anti-Trump Republicans reacted as you’d expect, but a lot of politicians seemed to be waiting on polling to tell them what to think.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. ukraine
    Tommy Tuberville Gives Breathtakingly Ignorant Explanation of Russia’s InvasionThe Alabama senator doesn’t seem to be aware that communism ended in the country some time ago.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. what reckoning?
    The Senate Wants to Give Us a Lot More CopsLast year’s so-called reckoning with race is curdling into a bipartisan love fest for the police.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  9. covid-19 vaccine
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders Deploys Big Lie to Boost VaccinationsThe gubernatorial candidate is encouraging Arkansans to get their “Trump vaccine” and blaming the left for sowing distrust of the COVID jab.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. covid-19 vaccine
    What If Republicans Were Anti-Lockdown, Anti-Mask, and Pro-Vaxx?Tommy Tuberville suggests the best way to erode vaccine hesitancy is to give Trump credit for those shots in the arm. That may be sad but true.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. 2022 midterms
    Sex, Trump, and Insurrection: Alabama Republicans Are at It AgainWith Mo Brooks winning Trump’s endorsement and John Merrill imploding in a sex scandal, Alabama’s 2022 Senate primary is off to a fine start.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. u.s. senate
    Richard Shelby, the Last of the South’s Senate Party-Switchers, to RetireThe six-term Alabama senator never changed that much but went with the flow of conservative southern politics.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. past is prologue
    The Flimsy Nixon Precedent Trump Is Seizing On to Contest Biden’s WinIn 1960, Nixon disregarded a certified Electoral College slate from Hawaii favoring him. This is not the same as Pence disregarding a national defeat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. contested election
    Will Two Alabama Extremists Force a Vote on Overturning the Election?Mo Brooks and Tommy Tuberville are two peas in a pod from the same right-wing patch and may make every Republican go on record about Trump’s claims.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. gaffes
    Incoming GOP Senator Apparently Doesn’t Know Basics of World War IITommy Tuberville said his father deployed to France to liberate Paris “from socialism and communism,” forgetting perhaps that Nazis were fascist.
    By Matt Stieb
  16. vision 2020
    The Perpetually Frustrated Dream of the South Turning BlueThere remain signs of optimism for long-suffering southern Democrats, but 2020 was in most respects bitterly disappointing.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. poll position
    Two Republicans Could Blow Up Democrats’ Shot at the SenateHow the GOP may just pull off flipping seats in states as different as Alabama and Michigan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. college football
    Nick Saban’s Positive Test Makes COVID-19 Real in the Heart of TrumplandNobody pays more attention to detail than the legendary Alabama coach. Now college football in the South is as imperiled as COVID-19 denial.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. 2020 elections
    We May Have to Wait for Senate Election Results, TooFor reasons ranging from slow counts of mail ballots to funky majority-vote requirements, we may not know who controls the Senate until January.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. poll position
    It’s Harder Than it Looks for Democrats to Win the SenateRecent polls show many newly competitive Democratic Senate candidates, but they could still fall short of a majority even if Biden wins.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. 2020 elections
    Tuberville Ends Jeff Sessions’s Political Career in Alabama Primary RunoffThe former Auburn coach isn’t a cinch against Democratic senator Doug Jones, but he did dramatically reverse Sessions’s once dazzling success.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. court is in sessions
    Jeff Sessions Keeps Getting WorseA new profile at the New York Times Magazine vivifies the warning about Sessions that Coretta Scott King gave in 1986.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  23. 2020 elections
    Biden’s Surge Could Flip the Senate — and Boost His PresidencyA rising tide from the top of the ticket may lift Democrats to control of the Senate, which would make a successful Biden administration more likely.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. 2020 elections
    Obamagate Could Be the Last Nail in the Coffin for Jeff SessionsA new poll shows him trailing by more than 20 points in the race for his old Alabama Senate seat. The GOP obsession with the “witch hunt” may be why.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. 2020 elections
    Trump Campaign Attacks Sessions For Too Much Praise of TrumpIt’s not enough for Trump to endorse Sessions’s primary opponent. He wants his former Attorney General to stop taking his name in vain.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. 2020 elections
    Coronavirus-Scarred 2020 Congressional Landscape Leaning DemocraticThe Senate landscape is looking slightly bluer, and COVID-19 has frozen House races in ways that will make a Republican takeover more difficult.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. 2020 elections
    Trump Endorses Sessions Foe in AlabamaBacking Tommy Tuberville is Trump’s ultimate revenge on his former attorney general for failing to quash what became the Mueller investigation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. super tuesday
    There Were Down-Ballot Contests on Super Tuesday, TooFive states had down-ballot races, and some will shape the congressional landscape in November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. everything is fine
    At Least Roy Moore Won’t Be a U.S. SenatorThings aren’t all bad.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  30. impeachment
    House Republican Wants Impeachment of Trump to Include Impeachment of ObamaBradley Byrne, an Alabama Republicans who needs some MAGA magic, is going the extra mile to go after Trump’s hated predecessor.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. 2020 elections
    Will Trump Crush Jeff Sessions’s Senate Comeback?With Sessions ready to jump into the race for his old seat, his GOP rivals hope Trump punishes him for recusal in the Russia collusion investigation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. u.s. senate
    Jeff Sessions May Seek Old Senate Seat Despite Crowded FieldWill Donald Trump vengefully drop a hammer on his former attorney general?
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. alabama senate race
    Tommy Tuberville: Roy Moore Without the Sex ScandalsThe former Auburn coach is working hard to dumb down the 2020 Alabama Senate race.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. 2020 alabama senate race
    Judge Roy Moore Rides Again Into a 2020 Senate RaceEverybody’s favorite theocrat and alleged mall creeper is again threatening to wreak havoc on his party’s Senate prospects in Alabama.
    By Ed Kilgore