Philip Elliott

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Once again, President Donald Trump seems not to understand the plank he’s asking his rank-and-file friends in […]

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Joe Biden often forgot top White House aides’ names, occasionally resorting to shorthand descriptions of roles like

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Washington is about to host a global festival for the LGBTQ community and its allies—all while President

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Citizen Donald Trump made a whole lot of promises about what he would do if returned to

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. Donald Trump just did the economic equivalent of Control-Alt-Delete on his trade policy. No, he didn’t fully

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. It’s never been more clear that the Democratic Party—both activist and rank-and-file wings alike—is spoiling for a

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The White House is trying to have it every way possible in a high-stakes dispute over its

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. The Senate’s move Friday to avoid a government shutdown—essentially ceding spending power to President Donald Trump and

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For weeks, Senate Democrats have tried to have it both ways as they’ve faced a tricky choice:

Predictability is the most valuable currency of diplomacy. But it’s been in decidedly short supply in Washington since Jan. 20, as the Trump administration meddles in foreign nations’ domestic politics with abandon.  This has made the job of many of