1. vision 2020
    Warren’s New Bankruptcy Plan Is Biden BaitAs she lags behind the field’s top competitors, Warren revisits a core issue.
    By Sarah Jones
  2. trump impeachment
    What Will Happen to the Trump Toadies?Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues.
    By Frank Rich
  3. iraq
    Trump Admin Drafts Iraq Sanctions to Counter Vote to Expel U.S. Troops: ReportSanctions aren’t normally levied against allies, but very little of the first week of the current crisis in the region could be considered “normal.”
    By Matt Stieb
  4. iran
    Fox News Welcomes ‘Deep State’ Intelligence When It Leads to Conflict With IranA serious change of tune for the network, which has attacked the “deep state” intelligence community for the Trump-Russia inquiries for three years.
    By Matt Stieb
  5. world view
    The ‘Painful Consequences’ of Trump’s Soleimani Decision Are Already HereFrom the gobsmacking confusion over the U.S. presence in Iraq to reports of discrimination at the border, we don’t have to wait for Iran’s response.
    By Heather Hurlburt
  7. impeachment
    Bolton’s Offer to Testify May Not Be a Game-Changer Just YetNobody really knows what he will say, and the battle over witnesses in an impeachment trial is far from resolved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. environment
    The NAACP Confronts Its Sordid Relationship With Big PollutersThe storied civil-rights organization is trying to find its way again. But it has some obstacles of its own making.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  9. iraq
    Read the Letter the Pentagon Accidentally Sent Announcing Withdrawal From IraqAfter a DOD letter emerged stating the U.S. would move troops out of Iraq, the Pentagon said it was a “poorly worded” draft and a “mistake.”
    By Matt Stieb
  10. qasem soleimani
    Trump’s Rationale for Killing Soleimani Makes No SenseThe White House has so little respect for the voting public, it didn’t even bother to make its case for war with Iran logically coherent.
    By Eric Levitz
  11. the national interest
    Joe Lieberman Is Sad Democrats Won’t Support Trump’s Iran WarLieberman believes Congress should always support the president’s foreign policy, unless the president is a Democrat.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. democratic primaries
    Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth WarrenDays after ending his own campaign, Castro is getting behind Warren’s.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  13. profile
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Already Changed D.C. It Hasn’t Changed Her Much.She reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.
    By David Freedlander
  14. iran
    House to Vote to Limit Trump’s Authority to Wage War on IranThe House will vote on a War Powers Resolution to cut off Trump’s authority to engage Iran after 30 days unless he seeks congressional approval.
    By Matt Stieb
  15. the national interest
    Trump’s One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its EnemiesThe president is neither a hawk nor a dove, but an admirer of war criminals and torturers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. vision 2020
    Sanders Leads in New Hampshire, Part of Three-Way Tie for First in Iowa: PollThe end of the holiday polling drought is great for Bernie, and not so great for Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg.
    By Matt Stieb
  17. trump tweets
    Trump Reiterates Threat to Commit War Crimes in IranTrump doubled down on his threat to order strikes on cultural sites in Iran if they retaliated against the U.S. for the killing of General Soleimani.
    By Chas Danner
  18. international affairs
    Iraqi Lawmakers Vote to Expel U.S. As Fallout From Soleimani Strike WorsensIraq’s parliament, prime minister, and most powerful religious leader all want America out, and the U.S.-led fight against ISIS has come to a halt.
    By Chas Danner
  19. iran
    Mike Pompeo: Expected Iranian Retaliation Is Just a ‘Little Noise’It’s already pretty noisy: Since Soleimani’s death, Iran withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iraq wants U.S. forces out, and the U.S. expects retaliation.
    By Matt Stieb
  20. nonproliferation
    Iran Nixes Nuclear-Deal Commitments, Lifts Enrichment LimitsTrump’s maximum-pressure campaign has officially achieved the opposite of its supposed intent.
    By Chas Danner
  21. nypd
    NYPD Officer Michael Reynolds Resigns Over Racist 2018 Home InvasionBut little that he did diverged from what NYPD officers often do on the job.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  22. vision 2020
    The Geriatric Scenario for 2020Before Super Tuesday, late-septuagenarians Biden, Sanders and Bloomberg could be the last viable candidates opposing 74-year-old Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. politics
    Is the Democratic Primary About Foreign Policy Now?Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani refocuses the primary, at least for now.
    By Sarah Jones
  24. iran
    If Trump Can’t Bully Iran Into Backing Down, Things Could Get Scary FastTrump hates limited, conventional wars and also thinks intimidating enemies with great shows of force will subdue them. What if it doesn’t this time?
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. vision 2020
    Democrats Still Have Multiple Routes to 2020 Electoral College WinIt’s not necessarily all about the Rust Belt.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. vision 2020
    The Secret to Joe Biden’s (Hypothetical) ElectabilityThanks to his idiosyncratic career arc, Biden boasts strong support from black voters and whites who resent the political power of black voters.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. iran
    What Legal Authority Did Trump Have to Assassinate Qasem Soleimani?It looks like the administration will try to claim its attacks are covered by congressional authorizations of the War on Terror or the Iraq War.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. the national interest
    Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected. He’s Wrong.Republicans used to deny ending the Iran nuclear deal would lead to military conflict.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. vision 2020
    Julián Castro’s Campaign Was Not for the FearfulThe anxieties of the Trump era have left Democrats with too little nerve to risk on a racial justice candidacy.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  30. world view
    What Comes Next After the Killing of Qasem SoleimaniThe U.S. strike on the Iranian general ends any hope of containing U.S.-Iran hostilities without significant violence, chaos, and losses of life.
    By Heather Hurlburt
  31. vision 2020
    What’s So Hard to Understand About the Young Left?Young leftists don’t think they own the future. They fear losing it.
    By Sarah Jones
  32. impeachment
    Unredacted Emails Show Pentagon’s Concern Over Trump Withholding Aid to UkrainePentagon emails call the withholding of aid a “clear direction” from Trump, as officials worried he would violate the Impoundment Control Act.
    By Matt Stieb
  33. vision 2020
    Confusion Among California Independents Could Hurt SandersMany of CA’s independent voters don’t know they have to request a Democratic ballot, while others have registered mistakenly with a right-wing party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. john roberts
    Man Who Gutted Voting Rights Says Americans ‘Take Democracy for Granted’John Roberts wants you to know that the unelected judges who keep sidelining voters and empowering plutocrats are the guardians of our democracy.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. ufos
    Amy Klobuchar Hints at Declassifying UFO Info If ElectedAmy for Area 51.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  36. vision 2020
    Why Nobody Can Prevent the All-White Debate StageThere’s no formula for adding nonwhite candidates to debates that won’t add more white candidates as well, reversing the winnowing of the nonviable.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. the national interest
    Trump Covering Up Scheme to Use Justice Department to Punish CNNPresident helpfully reminds America the scandal is ongoing.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. immigration
    U.S. Population Grows at Slowest Rate Since World War ITrump has succeeded in discouraging immigration — and thus, weakening the U.S. economically and geopolitically.
    By Eric Levitz
  39. politics
    Will the 2020s Be the Decade of Eugenics?We think of eugenics as a sin of the past, but it never really went away.
    By Sarah Jones
  40. iran
    U.S. Kills Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Airstrike at Baghdad AirportThe Pentagon confirmed that Trump ordered U.S. forces to kill Iran’s leader of clandestine forces Qasem Soleimani “to protect U.S. personnel abroad.”
    By Matt Stieb
  41. vision 2020
    Video of Joe Biden Suggesting White Nationalist Idea Is Deceptively EditedA comment from Biden on changing a culture that tolerates the abuse of women was cut to suggest he considers European culture to be superior.
    By Matt Stieb
  42. vision 2020
    Buttigieg Campaign Says It Raised $24.7 Million in the Fourth Quarter of 2019The impressive fourth quarter brings his haul for the year to $76 million.
    By Matt Stieb
  43. politics
    A Glossary of Everyday Things, According to Trump“People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once,” and other gems.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  44. politics
    Scott Brown and a Perilous Decade For ProgressivismIn January 2010 all the excitement associated with Obama’s election began to dissipate after a special election in Massachusetts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. world view
    At U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Trump’s Middle East Rhetoric Meets RealityThe attack underscores that Trump’s efforts to hobble Iran and conclude our “endless wars” won’t come to fruition anytime soon.
    By Heather Hurlburt
  46. vision 2020
    Buttigieg’s Sharp Elbows Jab BidenMayor Pete isn’t just going back and forth with Warren and Klobuchar. He’s also apparently trying to get to Biden’s left on national security.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. police brutality
    Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Uses Stun Gun 3 Times on Black Grandmother“From everything we can see at this point, it appears the deputy did what he had to do,” the county sheriff said.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  48. iraq
    Iraqis Storm U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to Protest Air StrikesThe U.S. launched mass-casualty air strikes in Iraq in defiance of its government. Now, Iran-backed militants surround the U.S. embassy.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. the national interest
    Why Conservatives Who Know Climate Science Is Real Won’t Speak UpMuch easier to focus on resentment of environmentalists than the dangerous lunacy of their own side’s science denial.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. foreign interests
    Trump Puts Business Above Democracy and Human Rights. So Did Jimmy Carter.As Iran’s pro-business dictatorship faced an uprising, Carter’s administration urged it “to kill as many demonstrators as necessary,” documents show.
    By Eric Levitz
  51. white nationalism
    Entire West Virginia Correctional Officer Class Fired After Nazi Salute PhotoGovernor Jim Justice fired almost 30 correctional officer trainees who posed in a Nazi salute for a class photo.
    By Matt Stieb
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