Russell Berman
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Staff writer at The Atlantic, covering all things politics. Send tips/spin/spam to [email protected]. Emeritus of @thehill, @aolnews, @nysun
Brooklyn, NY
Joined January 2010
RT @TheAtlantic: Congressional Republicans, setting aside their pledges, principles, and policy demands, have done what the president desir….
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RT @Jenna_DC: President Trump wanted to sign his “big, beautiful bill” with a celebratory flourish on America’s birthday. And so nearly all….
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RT @TheAtlantic: Congressional Republicans, setting aside their pledges, principles, and policy demands, have done what the president desir….
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RT @shaneharris: Some of the last remaining Republican lawmakers to push back against Trump and his policies are from the same state -- a d….
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Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie are some of the last remaining elected Republicans willing to criticize and vote against Trump. Their stands have left the president's diehard supporters in Kentucky feeling oddly unrepresented in DC:
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Kentucky voted for Trump last year by more than 30 points, but it has become an unlikely hotbed of Republican resistance in his second term. I went there to find out what GOP voters think of their rebelling representatives:
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RT @TheAtlantic: Kentucky Republicans Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and Thomas Massie are among Trump’s only critics from his own party, @rus….
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RT @Jenna_DC: Come for the opening scene of Rep. Thomas Massie doing an exaggerated impression of President Trump in a Yogi Bear voice. Sta….
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RT @Jenna_DC: Some of the last remaining Republican lawmakers to push back against Trump and his policies are from the same state -- a deep….
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RT @TheAtlantic: At this year’s Sammie awards—known as the Oscars for federal employees—“hardly any of the honorees took the stage to accep….
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To guard against reprisal from the Trump administration, most honorees at this year's Sammies did not take the stage or deliver an acceptance speech. It was a startling sign of how much fear pervades the federal workforce right now:
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Is it now risky for a federal employee to accept an award in Trump's Washington? My dispatch from the Sammies, known as the Oscars for government, which were different this year:
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RT @Eugene_Scott: “What’s most striking about candidate Trump of June 2015 is how similar he is to President Trump of June 2025. To the pri….
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Looking back on Trump's political debut, what's clear to both his supporters and critics is this: He has changed American politics over the past decade more than it has changed him
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To mark the 10th anniversary of Donald Trump's descent down the golden escalator, I revisited Trump Tower—and the speech that launched his first presidential campaign:
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RT @TheAtlantic: Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign a decade ago today. @russellberman was there, and recently took a trip bac….
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RT @Yair_Rosenberg: Fascinating piece whose implications go well beyond politics. Activist groups have an incentive to hide failures to ret….
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RT @Jenna_DC: Progressive organizing groups are only too happy to brag about their wins; they’re much less likely to divulge details about….
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RT @TheAtlantic: Democratic organizers are hesitant to admit when get-out-the-vote efforts don’t work, @russellberman writes. One group is….
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