1. campaigns
    Former Spy Valerie Plame’s Bizarre New Ad Looks Like an Action-Movie Trailer“Yes, the CIA really does teach us how to drive like this.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  2. vision 2020
    October Debates Could Go Back to Two Nights As Steyer QualifiesEleven candidates have qualified for the October round of Democratic presidential debates in Ohio. That’s one more than any stage can hold.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. vision 2020
    Trump Mocks Sanford, Latest GOP Challenger, for Cheating With ‘Flaming Dancer’Cheating on your spouse is an issue the president happens to knows a bit about.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  4. donald trump
    Payments From Air Force Stopovers May Have Kept Trump Turnberry AfloatThe Air Force has spent $11 million at a small airport vital to Trump Turnberry and required servicemembers to stay at his Scottish hotel.
    By Matt Stieb
  5. the national interest
    Trump Has Figured Out How to Corrupt the Entire GovernmentA spate of recent stories share a single theme: Trump’s stink is seeping into every corner of Washington.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. a family affair
    Trump Campaign Manager: President’s Family Will Be a Decades-Long ‘Dynasty’Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, knows when to bend the knee: all the time, and with great vigor.
    By Matt Stieb
  8. war in afghanistan
    Trump’s Canceled Meeting With Taliban Was a Failed Attempt to Rush a Peace DealThe Camp David summit was reportedly a last-minute ploy to conclude negotiations and let Trump deliver a grand finale to the war in Afghanistan.
    By Chas Danner
  9. hurricane dorian
    Trump Won’t Rest Until We Accept His Sharpie-Doctored Hurricane MapThe president suggested on Saturday that we wants to put down the Sharpie, but the media won’t let him.
    By Matt Stieb, Margaret Hartmann, and Chas Danner
  10. conservatism
    What the ‘Ahmari-French Debate’ Was Really AboutA wonky debate turned into an ugly clash between two visions of conservatism.
    By J. Oliver Conroy
  11. the national interest
    Eric Trump Encounters Journalism, Is ConfusedHow dare the Washington Post offer to speak with sources in our organization?
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. politics
    Ted Cruz’s Dishonest Rhetoric About ChicagoThe senator’s attempt to use Chicago to make a point about gun control is the conservative tradition of using the city as a political football.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  13. vision 2020
    Trump Fears Alienating His Base With Gun Reforms. That’s Irrational.The president backed off background checks for fear of displeasing his core supporters. But he can’t win reelection on their votes alone.
    By Eric Levitz
  14. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Sharpiegate and Trump’s Escalating War on RealityThere’s been an uptick in lunacy since recession fears crept onto Trump’s radar — and his delusional claims will only get worse as 2020 approaches.
    By Frank Rich
  15. gaffes
    Amy McGrath Is Wasting Her Chance to Beat Mitch McConnellThe former fighter pilot and Kentucky Democrat wants to take down Mitch McConnell. But she can’t stop getting into her own way.
    By Sarah Jones
  16. the national interest
    Democrats Need to Plan Right Now for Republican Fiscal SabotageLock in stimulus for the next recession while Republicans are still interested in stopping recessions.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. the national interest
    Trump’s Most Feared Opponent: Whichever Democrat is on TV Right NowInside the Trump campaign brain trust’s highly scientific model.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. campaigns
    Polls Aren’t Perfect, But They’re More Accurate Than Lawn Signs and Crowd SizeWhen you read or hear a political journalist make election predictions based on crowd sizes or other anecdotal information, reach for your skepticism.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. intelligencer chats
    When Will the Dems With No Chance Drop Out?Intelligencer staffers discuss at what point the longshots in the primary field might call it a day.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti and Benjamin Hart
  20. 2020 elections
    How Control of the Senate Could Come Down to Two Runoff Elections in GeorgiaBoth parties are jockeying for position in Georgia with two Senate seats on the line. If no one wins a majority, huge runoff elections could follow.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. marianne williamson
    Marianne Williamson Spars With Erica Jong Over Hurricane Prayer TweetThe candidate did not take kindly to criticism over her suggestion to pray the hurricane away.
    By Benjamin Hart
  22. racism
    A Non-Racist Conservative Movement Would Kill the Republican PartyIs the American right willing to risk destruction?
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  23. 2020 elections
    Iowa Republican Senator Wants to Gut Social Security ‘Behind Closed Doors’The salt-of-the-earth Senator Ernst is exposing her inner wing nut in treating the safety net as a “problem” elites must “solve.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the economy
    The Fastest Growing Jobs in America Don’t Require a College DegreeExpanding access to higher education can’t revive the middle class. Only increasing the bargaining power of service-sector workers can.
    By Eric Levitz
  25. lawsuits
    Former Campaign Staffer Drops Suit Accusing Trump of Unwanted KissAlva Johnson says she can’t compete with Trump’s resources, but stands by her claim.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  26. state legislatures
    Yet Another Prize in the High-Stakes 2020 Race: Control of RedistrictingStraight-ticket voting means the apocalyptic race at the top of the ballot will matter more than money or focus in state legislative contests.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. the national interest
    Trump Somehow Replaces Unqualified Mideast Envoy With Even Less Qualified OneOut: Trump’s real-estate lawyer. In: Jared Kushner protégé. Wait, Jared has a protégé?
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. the national interest
    Hitler Parodies Are Gone But Now Trump Has Made Them Real LifeThe perfect meme for this era is just sitting right there.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. climate change
    On Climate, Sanders and Warren Must Go NuclearBernie Sanders is right that the climate crisis demands a radical break with obsolete ideologies – but that includes anti-nuclear leftism.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. memes
    Trump Sharpie Memes Show the World As Trump Would Prefer ItIt appears the president altered a projection of Hurricane Dorian, and he’d probably like to alter these images too.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  31. vision 2020
    Can Biden Lose the First Two States and Still Win the Nomination?Nobody’s done it before, but it’s possible, albeit perilous. Biden’s much stronger in Nevada and South Carolina.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. grift
    Conservative Troll Jacob Wohl Charged With Felony Count in CaliforniaAfter months of speculation as to why he hasn’t been arrested for his scams yet, Wohl was charged with a felony count of unlawful sale of securities.
    By Matt Stieb
  33. impeachment
    Window For Impeachment of Trump May Be Closing SoonJerrold Nadler bought time by saying impeachment proceedings had already begun. But the votes aren’t there for articles of impeachment, at least now.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. toilet
    Steve King Drinks From a Toilet to Own the LibsThe embattled congressman said that the water from the combination toilet-fountain some detained migrants are forced to use is “actually pretty good.”
    By Matt Stieb
  35. media
    Trump Official Reinstated After False Accusation of Anti-SemitismAfter a misleading Bloomberg story led to his ouster, commentators from both sides of the political spectrum agree that Leif Olson got a raw deal.
    By Benjamin Hart
  36. kamala harris
    Is Kamala Harris the New Marco Rubio?Intelligencer staffers discuss the similarities between a certain 2016 also-ran and a certain 2020 contender.
    By Benjamin Hart and Ed Kilgore
  37. donald trump
    What If Trump Supporters Love Chaos as Much as He Does?There’s new evidence that a significant number of Trump supporters love the man precisely for his destructive, nihilistic, and mendacious ways.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. gun violence
    Texas Shooting Makes the Case for Background Checks But the GOP’s Not ListeningA House bill expanding background checks could have stopped the Texas shooter from buying a gun. Republicans are still unlikely to take it up.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  39. labor
    Unions Have Won the War of Ideas. Will That Win Them Power?Unions are in material decline, but ideological ascent. Can newfound popularity with centrist Democrats and voters revive the labor movement?
    By Eric Levitz
  40. gerrymandering
    Another Court Declares Partisan Gerrymandering Unconstitutional Under State LawsNorth Carolina joins Pennsylvania as jurisdictions where state constitutional equal protection provisions have led to the demise of Republican maps.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. vision 2020
    Andrew Yang Says the Media Is Ignoring Him. Does He Have a Point?Maybe Yang and others are getting less media coverage than their poll rankings would indicate. But they don’t have plausible paths to the nomination.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. mass shootings
    The Trump Administration Thinks the Death Penalty Can Stop Mass ShootingsThe death penalty doesn’t deter violence. But it’s Trump’s preferred solution.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  43. guns
    Walmart Cancels Handgun-Ammo Sales, Backs ‘Commonsense’ Gun LegislationThe nation’s largest retailer takes some small but possibly influential steps away from the lethal-weapons business.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. vision 2020
    Biden on War Story Inaccuracies: ‘Details Are Irrelevant’It’s a common defense from Biden supporters, who say gaffes and untruths are okay because his heart’s in the right place.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  45. donald trump
    Trump Congratulates Poland for the Catastrophe of Its Invasion by GermanySurely the Poles appreciate a presidential attaboy on the anniversary of the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. 2020 gubernatorial elections
    Good News for Democrats: Manchin to Stay in SenateHad Manchin run for and won back his old gubernatorial gig, his Senate seat might have soon flipped to Republicans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. the national interest
    Why Mike Pence Is Lining Trump’s Pockets With Taxpayer DollarsThe point isn’t the money; it’s the complicity.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. power
    The Five Millennials (Actually) Changing the WorldAn honest list.
    By Noreen Malone
  49. gun violence
    Passing on Gun Reform, Trump Admin Wants to Expedite Executions of Mass ShootersDespite there being no evidence that such deterrence works.
    By Matt Stieb
  50. affirmative action
    The Harvard Affirmative-Action Case Isn’t Really About Undervaluing Asian LaborIt’s about overvaluing whiteness.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  51. vision 2020
    Pete Buttigieg’s Faith-Based Balancing ActMayor Pete’s status as an observant millennial Christian in a party and a generation where religiosity is unusual is a problem and an opportunity.
    By Ed Kilgore
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