1. the national interest
    Trump Still Pretending Fake North Korea Nuclear Deal Is RealProbably better than getting mad and starting a war, though.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. A 2017 Kavanaugh Speech Will Provoke Controversy in His SCOTUS ConfirmationThe speech that helped elevate Kavanaugh to Trump’s SCOTUS list doesn’t prove prejudgment of a challenge to Roe v. Wade, but it raises big questions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. the national interest
    Paul Ryan Unaware Constitution Lets Congress Override Presidential Veto“You would have to pass a law saying ‘don’t raise those tariffs’ and the president would have to sign that law,” says Ryan. Not true!
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. Everything You Need to Know About Trump’s Controversial U.K. VisitFrom attacking London’s mayor to offending various royals, Trump has a contentious history with the Brits. Now they’ll greet him with huge protests.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. Kavanaugh Ran Up Huge Credit-Card Debt From Baseball Tickets, White House SaysTrump’s Supreme Court pick loves baseball so much that he had credit card debt of $60,000 to $200,000. What could be more “all American”?
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. Manchin, Donnelly Begin to Lay Groundwork for Voting to Confirm KavanaughDemocratic senators who don’t have healthy leads when the Kavanaugh vote comes up will probably hear “the people” call for his confirmation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. SCOTUS Ruling Leads to Trump Taking Control of Hundreds of Federal Agency JudgesWith an assist from the Supreme Court, Trump now gets to appoint hundreds of judges who hear appeals of agency decisions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. Amy Coney Barrett Looks Like a Future Trump SCOTUS PickBarrett made a strong impression on Donald Trump, who can just see her and her large family at a photo op announcing a future SCOTUS nomination.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. the national interest
    Poll: Barack Obama Was the Greatest President of Our LifetimeWhy haven’t Democrats exploited the popularity of their recent presidents, and the unpopularity of Republican ones?
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. Trump Reverts to ‘Catch and Release’ for Migrant Families – Maybe Not for LongReunited migrant families are being released into the U.S. with ankle monitors, but the White House is still working to make mass detentions possible.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. Trump Administration Aims to Steer People to Junk Health Plans Over ObamacareIn addition to cutting most funding for Obamacare navigators, the administration is urging counselors to plug plans that don’t meet ACA requirements.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. Report: Team Trump Planning on Surge in Detention of Immigrant MinorsOn the surface the administration is curtailing family separations and kids in cages. But the bureaucrats are planning on more of both.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. Last Resort: How Maine Democrats Can Save Roe v. WadeBeating on Senate Democrats to oppose Brett Kavanaugh would be divisive and wouldn’t matter anyway. Giving Susan Collins a free ride in 2020 would.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. How to Interpret 2018 Polls Without Fooling YourselfThe first rule: “Don’t believe the hype.” The other rules are almost as simple.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. the national interest
    Trump Is Training His Base to Hate NATO and Like PutinHeading into the NATO summit, Trump is making an agreement with his allies impossible, and ramping up pro-Putin talk.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. Kavanaugh’s SCOTUS Confirmation Is in the GOP’s HandsThere are three Republican senators to watch. If they stay in line, nothing else matters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. 2018 elections
    Can a Democrat Ever Win in Texas? Beto O’Rourke Says Yes.With its growing Latino population and blue cities, the Lone Star State feels like it should be at least purple. If only people would actually vote.
    By Andrew Rice
  19. How Picking Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court Could Benefit Trump PersonallyTrump happened to nominate the one judge on his list who’s argued we shouldn’t “burden” the president with civil suits or criminal investigations.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  20. scotus
    After Stealing SCOTUS Seat, GOP Blasts Dems for Partisan Opposition to KavanaughAs the battle over Trump’s Supreme Court pick officially began, Republicans painted the left’s fears about health care and abortion as hysterical.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  21. Kavanaugh: A Safe Supreme Court Pick Who Will Carry Out the GOP’s Extreme AgendaHe’s a careful jurist whose murky abortion stance will make it easier for pro-choice GOP senators to pretend that the future of Roe v. Wade is secure.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. On the 150th Birthday of the 14th Amendment, Its Future Hangs in the BalanceTrump may not know the 14th Amendment from the 14th floor of one of his hotels, but his second SCOTUS pick could greatly affect its interpretation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. The Bill for the Ballot Battle Over California Gas Tax Could Reach $75 MillionOn one side of Prop. 6 is the California GOP, and on the other side unions, construction companies, and local governments.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the national interest
    Glenn Greenwald Tells Russians Liberals Are Blaming Them As Excuse for ClintonGreenwald in Moscow: “Excuses were needed … and that’s why there became this obsession with the Russian government.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. GOP Gubernatorial Candidate: Primary Was About Who Could Be the CraziestIn the latest gleaning from a secret tape of Georgia GOP gubernatorial front-runner Casey Cagle, he admits his party’s kinda nuts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. the national interest
    Stephen Miller Owned the Libs by Throwing Away His Own SushiThe Trump administration’s self-defeating nationalist agenda summarized in one anecdote.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. the national interest
    ‘Populist’ Trump Turns Up Nose at Public University GraduatesPresident somehow combines the worst aspects of anti-intellectualism and snobbish elitist credentialism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. politics
    Top Brexit Officials Resign in Blow to Theresa MayThe man negotiating the U.K.’s departure from the E.U. quit over May’s plan for a “soft Brexit,” sparking a crisis that threatens her premiership.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  29. russia scandal
    What If Trump Has Been a Russian Asset Since 1987?A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. politics
    No, Democrats Won’t Impose a ‘Religious Test’ on Amy Coney BarrettDetermining whether a nominee’s faith prejudges her views on the constitution is legitimate, particularly where her faith is one of her credentials.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. Trump’s Trade War Is a Big Problem for Republicans in Politically Pivotal IowaTrump and his people told Iowans not to worry about Chinese retaliation against Iowa soybean exports. Now they’re worrying for real.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. Washington Lobbyists Anticipating Democratic HouseDenizens of the swamp are hiring Democrats to shore up their relationships with the potential bosses of the next Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. Trump Wants Suspense Before Another Reality-Show SCOTUS RevealThe White House deployed some misdirection before the Gorsuch announcement, and that could happen again leading up to the big announcement.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. encounter
    Knocking on Doors With Julia Salazar, the Next DSA Candidate Hoping for an UpsetLike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Salazar is a 20-something Latina Democratic Socialists of America member taking on a centrist Boomer Democrat.
    By Christian Lorentzen
  35. Trump Adds #MeToo Movement Jab to Unhinged Rally RepertoireHe gave his usual Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” attack some new layers of racism and sexism.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. Scott Pruitt Shows Loyalty to Trump Protects You — But Only for So LongThe EPA chief’s bond with the president let him hang on far longer than he should have. But ultimately, Trump is only loyal to himself.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  37. U.S. Army Is Discharging Immigrants Who Were Promised CitizenshipAt least 40 recruits and reservists have been quietly booted with little explanation, and now their immigration status could be at risk.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  38. Trump Believes ‘100 Percent’ in Jim Jordan’s Innocence in Sex Abuse CaseWhen it comes to fidelity to factual evidence, particularly in sex abuse cases, Donald Trump’s endorsement is at best a mixed blessing.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Scandalous EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Finally ResignsPruitt heads off to the Scandal-Ridden Cabinet Members Hall of Fame, without so much as a moment’s acknowledgement of his misdeeds from the president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. Alan Dershowitz’s War With Martha’s Vineyard Drags OnThe frequent defender of Donald Trump against Robert Mueller is now calling himself a victim of “McCarthyism” from his summer friends.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. Kavanaugh Remains SCOTUS Front-runner Despite Right-Wing BacklashAbortion hard-liners and Bush haters are prominent in attacks on Kavanaugh, but he’s no Harriet Miers, and remains the front-runner for Trump’s nod.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. Trump’s Supreme Court Pageant Could Come Down to LooksSince others have ensured that all the candidates are sufficiently conservative, Trump is said to be weighing which finalists have the right image.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  43. foreign policy
    AMLO Isn’t Mexico’s Trump — Nor Is He Trump’s Natural EnemyAndrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidential win could shift U.S.-Mexico relations, but caricatures don’t do justice to the idiosyncratic left-populist.
    By Jonah Shepp
  44. Woman Climbs Statue of Liberty to Protest Family Separations, Island Shut DownThousands of tourists were cleared from the monument on July 4. After a three-hour standoff, the NYPD helped the woman down and arrested her.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  45. Powerful House Republican Implicated in College Sex-Abuse ScandalThe accusations that Jim Jordan turned a blind eye to sexual abuse as a college wrestling coach bring disturbing echoes of the Larry Nassar scandal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. the national interest
    Why Hasn’t Trump Fired Scott Pruitt? Because Pruitt Can Fire Robert Mueller.The EPA administrator pitches President Trump on a sinister plan to quash the Russia investigation.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. Maybe Republicans Just Don’t Do PolicyFor all their differences, the Bush and Trump White Houses share an indifference toward policy development as opposed to politics and ideology.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. the national interest
    Trump Insists No Other Americans Allowed Into His Putin MeetingBecause there’s definitely no pee tape he might be discussing.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. Are Democrats Crying Wolf on Threat to Abortion Rights?The threat to abortion rights is very real, even if conservatives have grown adept at pretending otherwise.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. the national interest
    The Anti-Trump Right Has Become Trump’s BaseTed Cruz voters support Trump as much as Trump voters do.
    By Jonathan Chait
  51. A Look at Trump’s Shortlist for Replacing Anthony KennedyDon’t expect any surprises given Trump’s unusual self-discipline in keeping his judicial promises to conservatives.
    By Ed Kilgore
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