1. politics
    John Fetterman’s New FightPennsylvania’s new lieutenant governor wants to revitalize Trump Country… and the Democratic Party.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  2. encounter
    Hiding Out With the Stand-up Comic Who Could Put Roger Stone in PrisonRandy Credico seems to be a key witness for Robert Mueller against longtime frenemy Roger Stone. But he’s scared as hell.
    By David Freedlander
  3. undocumented immigration
    Trump and His Company Are No Aliens to Undocumented WorkersThe crackdown on undocumented workers at two of Trump’s clubs reveals the fake views at the heart of the president’s political career.
    By Chas Danner
  4. world view
    Don’t Just Argue Over Trump’s Maduro Stance, Fight to Help VenezuelansAmericans should be focused on promoting stability and helping refugees — while keeping U.S. opportunists from making the crisis even worse.
    By Heather Hurlburt
  5. government shutdown
    Trump Caved So Hard People Are Searching What ‘Caving’ MeansAs frustration over caving increases among GOP leaders and conservative media, there’s been a 1500 percent uptick in dictionary searches for the verb.
    By Matt Stieb
  7. today in trump
    Donald Trump’s The Art of the KeelOn the ground in the Rose Garden, Trump’s attempt to spin the shutdown felt like a teleprompter-aided therapy session.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  8. politics
    Glad the Shutdown’s Over? Thank WorkersThe labor movement deserves credit for helping end the government shutdown.
    By Sarah Jones
  9. the national interest
    Trump Caves on Shutdown, Is Terrible at PoliticsPresident releases the hostages, tries to pretend he is not humiliated.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. tales from the trail
    Democratic Ex-Presidents Expected to Sit Out 2020 PrimariesBut they are taking meetings … Also: Gillibrand talks to potential big-money donors and Beto gets signs from potential high-profile supporters.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  11. government shutdown
    Flight Attendants Are ‘Mobilizing Immediately’ Over Shutdown, Union SaysSara Nelson, head of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, is urging members to visit their congressional reps and demand an end to the shutdown.
    By Sarah Jones
  12. politics
    Roger Stone Allegedly Threatened to Kidnap This Precious DogEverything we know about sweet Bianca, who comes up in Stone’s recent indictment.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  13. the national interest
    Roger Stone Used Mob Threats Because Trump Is Basically a Crime BossThe Gambino-style roll-up continues.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. government shutdown
    Airports in Northeast Hit With Delays Over Shutdown-Related Staffing IssuesThe FAA attributed the temporary halt of flights at LaGuardia and delays in Newark, Philadelphia, and D.C. to a shortage of air traffic controllers.
    By Sarah Jones
  15. government shutdown
    The Government Shutdown Consequences Are Getting More and More DireFederal workers have now missed their second paychecks, and some airports are halting flights.
    By Lisa Ryan
  16. russia investigation
    Longtime Trump Adviser Roger Stone Indicted in Mueller ProbeStone is charged with making false statements and trying to tamper with a witness to hide his efforts to learn about hacked Democratic emails.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. government shutdown
    Donald Trump Doesn’t Know How Grocery Stores WorkThe president apparently thinks we all still live in 1950’s Brooklyn. Or Little House on the Prairie.
    By Sarah Jones
  18. vision 2020
    Elizabeth Warren to Propose Spreading the Wealth AroundA 70 percent tax on incomes over $10 million isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A 2 percent tax on the wealth of the super-rich.
    By Eric Levitz
  19. alexandria ocasio-cortez
    AOC Thinks Billionaires Are a Threat to Democracy. So Did Our Founders.The idea that democracy and billionaires are incompatible might seem radical to conservatives. But to America’s founders, it seemed like common sense.
    By Eric Levitz
  20. the national interest
    Jared Kushner Is Goading Trump Into Prolonging the ShutdownAnd moderate Democrats are stoking his delusions of grandeur.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. russia investigation
    What We Know About BuzzFeed’s Michael Cohen Scoop, and Why Mueller Shot It DownIt seems likely that the controversy stems from a dispute between BuzzFeed’s sources and Mueller’s office, not simple journalistic error.
    By Nick Tabor
  22. government shutdown
    Could a Long-Shot Aviation Strike Be What Finally Ends the Shutdown?It is illegal for federal employees to strike, but aviation labor unions and GOP lawmakers raised the possibility of drastic industry-wide action.
    By Matt Stieb
  23. politics
    After Calls to Stifle Progressive Newcomers, Dems Put Them on Powerful CommitteeAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley will get to probe Trump officials as the newest additions to the Oversight Committee.
    By Sarah Jones
  24. the democrats
    Advice to Reformed ‘Tough on Crime’ Democrats: Be HonestJoe Biden and Kamala Harris built their careers on crime and punishment. The reckoning should be honest rather than politically expedient.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  25. the national interest
    If Trump Gets a Ransom to End the Shutdown, He’ll Do It Again and AgainThe irrepressible Republican attraction to hostage-taking in place of normal compromise.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. the national interest
    This Chart Shows the Coming Death of Small-Government ConservatismThree generations of white people thought government was doing too much. The next two want it to do more.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. politics
    Trump Reportedly ‘Furious’ Over Rudy Giuliani’s Recent Media FlopsA White House aide told Politico that “handling Rudy’s f**k ups takes more than one man.”
    By Matt Stieb
  28. education
    After a Weeklong Strike, Los Angeles Teachers May Have a DealMembers of the United Teachers of Los Angeles still have to vote on the deal, but it sounds like a victory for striking educators.
    By Sarah Jones
  29. protests
    Trump Labor Counsel Hopes Legal Trap Can Kill Scabby the RatBanning the ubiquitous inflatable rat balloon would be a psychological blow to labor, but experts believe the First Amendment will protect him.
    By Sarah Jones
  30. the national interest
    Rudy Giuliani Is Possibly a Legal Genius, But Probably Just an IdiotThe middle ground is disappearing. Rudy’s either Keyser Soze or Barry Zuzkerkorn.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. immigration
    Former MS-13 Member Who Secretly Helped Police Is DeportedAn immigration judge said he had no choice but to deny asylum to the teen who cooperated with authorities only to be jailed with those he informed on.
    By Hannah Dreier
  32. encounter
    Shaun King on Relaunching The North Star and His Online PersonaThe controversial activist asks, “What would Frederick Douglass do?”
    By Amos Barshad
  33. russia investigation
    Giuliani: Trump’s Moscow Tower Planning May Have Continued Through the ElectionTrump’s lawyer has now tried to take back his comments, which also indicated that Trump may have talked to Cohen before his Congressional testimony.
    By Chas Danner
  34. horrible things
    MAGA Hat-Wearing Teen Says He Was Trying to Defuse ‘the Situation’“I said a silent prayer that the situation would not get out of hand,” he said in a statement.
    By Lisa Ryan and Amanda Arnold
  35. 2020 elections
    Kamala Harris Is Running for President in 2020“I feel a sense of responsibility to stand up and fight for the best of who we are,” Harris said on Good Morning America.
    By Amanda Arnold
  36. martin luther king
    Is a Prophet Like MLK Possible Today?Hearts have hardened, and the opponents of racial justice don’t hear the words of prophets.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. indigenous peoples’ march
    What It Felt Like to Stare Down the MAGA TeensI watched as tribal elder Nathan Phillips responded to bigotry with grace.
    By Hunter Hooligan
  38. the national interest
    Trump’s One Legislative ‘Win’ Is Actually a FailureThe Trump tax cuts are the payoff for two years of embarrassment. They haven’t worked either.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. 2019 women’s march
    The Most Powerful Scenes From the 2019 Women’s MarchProtesters took to the streets to stand up for women’s rights and progressive issues.
    By Lisa Ryan
  40. 2019 women’s march
    Ocasio-Cortez’s Women’s Rally Speech Was a Fierce Call to Action“Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet.”
    By Lisa Ryan
  41. 2019 women’s march
    The Best, Smartest, and Funniest Signs From the Women’s MarchProtest signs from Women’s March events around the world.
    By Lisa Ryan
  42. education
    Karen Pence’s Job at an Anti-LGBT School Is Definitely the Taxpayers’ BusinessThe Pences found the criticism “deeply offensive,” but her work affirms the Trump administration’s broader hostility to LGBT students.
    By Sarah Jones
  43. criminal justice
    Jason Van Dyke and the Inadequacy of America’s Criminal-Justice SystemJason Van Dyke was sentenced to prison time for killing Laquan McDonald. But true accountability remains elusive.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  44. the national interest
    Trump Didn’t Have Secret Contact With Russia — It Was Done in Plain SightHis private meetings with Putin are an apt metaphor for their entire bizarre relationship.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. 2020 presidential election
    2020 Candidates Carry Heavy Baggage, and Trump Is Sure to Exploit ThatToday’s harsh intraparty criticism, most recently aimed at Kamala Harris, will become fodder for Trump’s war on his eventual 2020 opponent.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. satire
    Imagined Letters Between Trump and PelosiWhat if they just kept writing to each other?
    By Kelly Conaboy
  47. the national interest
    Trump Ordered Michael Cohen to Perjure Himself. It’s Even Worse Than It Sounds.Five reasons why the BuzzFeed bombshell contains deadly fallout.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. conservatism
    The Right’s Case Against Soaking the Rich Is Dirt PoorConservatives’ best arguments against raising taxes on millionaires rest on fallacies — and ignore extreme inequality’s social and political costs.
    By Eric Levitz
  49. politics
    Trump May Still Be Learning About His Own Decisions Through TVTrump reportedly learned about the friendship between Robert Mueller and his attorney general nominee William Barr by watching him testify on TV.
    By Matt Stieb
  50. mitch mcconnell
    In New Op-ed, McConnell Attacks Campaign Finance Reform and Voting RightsMcConnell jokes — and lies — his way through a Trump-friendly review of Democratic ethics and voting reforms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. climate change
    Bipartisan Group of Economists Endorses (Surprisingly Robust) Carbon TaxSome of the GOP’s top economists just called on the government to (gradually) euthanize the fossil fuel industry and establish a tiny UBI.
    By Eric Levitz
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