1. vision 2020
    Bernie Sanders Can Still Set Himself Apart on Medicare for AllHis Medicare for All plan is now just one of many in the 2020 field, but he has some advantages over candidates open to more incremental reform.
    By Sarah Jones
  2. abortion
    Texas Bill Would Make Abortion Punishable by the Death PenaltyThe logic of the Right-to-Life cause has always led to the direction of treating reproductive rights as homicide.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. the national interest
    Republicans Prove Ilhan Omar Is Right About Anti-Muslim Bigotry“You have to wonder if she is an American first,” says Fox News host who claims to be offended at dual loyalty smears.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. kamala harris
    California Is a Golden Opportunity — and Challenge — for Kamala Harris in 2020Harris is running third behind Biden and Sanders in the latest poll of her home state, but she hopes to boost her standing with an earlier win.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. politics
    Trump’s Nominee for Deputy AG Won’t Say Brown v. Board Was Rightly DecidedThe prospective number-two DOJ official, which enforces civil rights laws, wouldn’t endorse the most important Supreme Court civil rights decision.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. vision 2020
    How to Break the Highest Glass Ceiling in AmericaClinton’s defeat stirred fears that America won’t elect a woman president, but there are several paths forward — if we refuse to surrender to sexism.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. unintended consequences
    White Nationalists Make Money Streaming Hearing on Rise of White NationalismAnd other depressing moments from the derailed House Judiciary Committee hearing on the rise of the white far right.
    By Matt Stieb
  9. historical revisionism
    Yes, Candace, the Southern Strategy Is RealIn an egregious statement of historical revisionism, right-wing controversialist Candace Owens denies some very basic facts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. vision 2020
    How Late Can Stacey Abrams Launch a Presidential Candidacy?A September announcement would be risky for the popular Georgian, but not necessarily fatal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. irs
    Bipartisan Bill Would Ban IRS From Making Tax-Filing Free and EasyThe IRS has the data and technology to pre-fill your tax forms for you. But that would make TurboTax less profitable. So Congress won’t allow it.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. the national interest
    Trump Federal Reserve Nominee Admitted ‘I’m Not an Expert on Monetary Policy’That’s actually a pretty important job qualification to be a central banker.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. mueller report
    Barr Promises Mueller Report Within a Week, Won’t Say If Trump Got a Sneak PeekThe attorney general said the Mueller report’s release is imminent, but there may be more squabbling over what exactly the public gets to see.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. fox news
    What I’ve Learned From People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox NewsI’ve been collecting stories from people who feel as though their loved ones were changed by Fox News. They don’t have happy endings.
    By Luke O'Neil
  15. stephen miller
    If You Are Defending Stephen Miller, You Are an Ally of Anti-SemitismMiller’s white-nationalist politics are far more dangerous for American Jews than anything Ilhan Omar has ever tweeted.
    By Eric Levitz
  16. racism
    In the Trump Era, Political Incorrectness on the RiseRacists appear to feel liberated to express themselves freely these days, and the partisan gap in racial perceptions has become very large.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. vision 2020
    Can Progressives Forgive Kamala Harris Her Past Moderation?Harris saved her outspoken progressivism for the 2020 presidential campaign. Will the “long game” she pursued as a prosecutor hurt her?
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. the national interest
    Bernie Sanders’s Love of the Filibuster Is His Craziest PositionFor some reason he wants to keep rules that would make his agenda totally impossible forever.
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. religion
    Evangelical Pundit Erick Erickson Denies That Pete Buttigieg Can Be a ChristianAs is typical of many Christian right figures, Erickson presumes to judge Mayor Pete’s faith and arrogantly finds it lacking.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. the national interest
    Trump Demands Homeland Security Secretary Who Will Break the LawKirstjen Nielsen was only willing to brutalize refugees legally.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. foreign policy
    America Used to Have an Overseas Empire. What Happened to It?Daniel Immerwahr’s How to Hide an Empire serves both as a history of American empire, and a warning about the Trump administration’s bellicosity.
    By Adrian Chen
  22. the national interest
    Republicans Are Trashing the Law to Keep Trump’s Taxes SecretCongress has a clear legal right to examine Trump’s taxes. Republicans could not care less what the law says.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. trump turnover
    Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Quits Amid Pressure From TrumpShe appears to have been forced out by Trump, who has repeatedly criticized her and was working to marginalize her role within the administration.
    By Chas Danner
  24. border crisis
    The Long-Term Damage of Trump’s War on ImmigrantsIt could be two years before we know what happened to all the migrant kids taken from their families at the southern border.
    By Chas Danner
  25. vision 2020
    Will Iowans Dump Disgraced Racist Steve King?It will be ideology dueling with influence among many Western Iowa conservatives.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. international affairs
    Netanyahu Vows to Annex West Bank, Never Allow Palestinian State, If ReelectedThe embattled Israeli prime minister is pulling out all the far-right stops in a desperate, Trump-enabled attempt to get reelected.
    By Chas Danner
  27. politics
    At Famed Civil-Rights Center, Fire Destroys a Building, But Not a MissionThe Highlander Center, a longtime target of racist attacks, shows its resilience again after a white-power symbol is found at the scene of a fire.
    By Sarah Jones
  28. vision 2020
    Bernie Sanders Still Dragging His Feet on Releasing His Tax ReturnsIt’s an embarrassment to Democrats battling to force the release of Trump’s tax returns.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. israel
    Whatever Happened to the Israeli Left?On the eve of the Jewish state’s elections, an appraisal of the battered opposition.
    By Abraham Riesman
  30. politics
    Some NYC Pre-K Teachers Can’t Make Ends Meet. Now They’re Preparing to Strike.Kids are never too young to learn what scabbing is.
    By Sarah Jones
  31. vision 2020
    De Blasio Is Preparing to Embarrass Himself and the Entire State of New YorkEvery indicator screams “No!” at New York’s mayor. But he seems determined to run anyway.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. politics
    Joe Manchin Can’t Be Democrats’ Only Strategy for Holding West VirginiaDemocrats are right to worry that they won’t retake the Senate in 2020 if Manchin runs for governor. But they can’t write off West Virginia forever.
    By Sarah Jones
  33. vision 2020
    With Stacey Abrams Taking Her Time, Democrats Eye Backup Senate CandidateIf Abrams runs for president or just sits out 2020, Columbus mayor Teresa Tomlinson plans take her place in a challenge to Senator David Perdue.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. politics
    All the Women Who Have Spoken Out Against Joe BidenA running list.
    By Amanda Arnold
  35. vision 2020
    Without a Plausible ‘Theory of Change,’ Progressive Ideas Are Just FantasiesTurns out the last Democratic president didn’t have a durable idea of how to overcome Republican obstruction. The next better get one.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. alabama senate
    Very Trumpy Florida Congressman May Move to Alabama to Run Against Doug JonesDoes Alabama really need to import wild-ass Trump loyalists?
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. voter suppression
    Iowa GOP Moves Forward With Plan to Disenfranchise College StudentsUnder the proposed law, graduating college students would be asked if they plan to remain in Iowa, then struck from the voting rolls if they say no.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. vision 2020
    White Working-Class Yoga Devotee Tim Ryan Joins Crowded 2020 FieldRyan’s unconventional and sometimes conservative record makes him a hard sell, but if Democrats get obsessed with the heartland, he’ll get a listen.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. immigration
    Locking Immigrants in ‘Camps’ Is the New American NormalAnd it’s carrying on an old tradition.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  40. the national interest
    Trump Wants Herman Cain on the Fed Because He’s an Unqualified HackThe peculiar logic of putting crazy people in charge of economic policy.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. vision 2020
    The Best Argument for Bernie Sanders Is His Democratic GlobalismSanders is already building alliances with progressive forces the world over. Elizabeth Warren should start doing the same.
    By Eric Levitz
  42. the national interest
    William Barr Seems to Be Covering Up Something Bad for TrumpMueller’s prosecutors are saying what has become clear: The Mueller report is worse than Barr made it sound.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. mueller time
    A Rare Mueller Leak: Some on Team Consider Report More Damning Than Barr SummaryTwo new reports state Mueller team members are frustrated by how the AG handled the summary, claiming “the work would have spoken for itself.”
    By Matt Stieb
  44. donald trump
    New Book Alleges Trump Doodles About ‘Sloppy Steve’ Bannon in MeetingsIn The Hill to Die On, Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer also claim that Trump considered nominating Merrick Garland to fill Kennedy’s Supreme Court seat.
    By Matt Stieb
  45. the democrats
    Senate Democrat Apologizes for Putting Too Little Trust in Mitch McConnellMichael Bennet suggests that McConnell’s conscience would have stopped him from nuking the filibuster, if only Democrats hadn’t done so first.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. vision 2020
    California May Move to ‘Unrig’ Rules Affecting IndependentsProposed legislation would let independents know they need to ask for a Democratic ballot in the 2020 presidential primary.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. vision 2020
    Fresh Signs Trump Might Not Accept Defeat in 2020Republicans are becoming far too accustomed to joining the president in attributing any electoral setbacks to Democratic conspiracies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. the democrats
    Democrats May Have Just Lost Wisconsin for a DecadeLiberals needed to win last night’s State Supreme Court election to prevent the GOP from passing new gerrymanders and voter-suppression laws in 2020.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. vision 2020
    Is Biden’s ‘Handsiness’ Disqualifying? Wrong Question.The Democrats would not be morally obliged to disown Biden if he won their nomination. So he’s “qualified” to run. He just shouldn’t.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. the city
    High-Flying Cy: How Manhattan DA Vance Spent $250K on Travel and FoodThe prosecutor has tapped a little-scrutinized fund for pricey work trips to London, Paris, and elsewhere over the past five years, records show.
    By Reuven Blau
  51. #metoo
    Two More Women Allege Joe Biden Inappropriately Touched ThemThat makes a total of four women in the last week who have accused the former vice-president of inappropriate physical contact.
    By Matt Stieb
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