1. scandals
    Reports on Other ‘Suspicious’ Michael Cohen Transactions Have Gone MissingTwo bank reports about $3 million of shady Cohen transactions are missing from Treasury’s database. That’s why a leaker released the third report.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. McConnell May Cancel August Recess to Keep Democrats From Going Home to CampaignMcConnell knows there are more incumbent Democrats than Republicans in competitive races. Threatening to keep them in D.C. could make them malleable.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. immigration
    Why the U.S. House May Finally Pass an Immigration BillEndangered House Republicans from Latino-heavy districts are playing chicken with Paul Ryan — and indirectly the president — and may force a vote.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. the national interest
    Why Trump’s Assault on Democracy Doesn’t Bother the Illiberal LeftTrump and his party aren’t the only force in American life opposed to liberal democracy.
    By Jonathan Chait
  5. Teacher Protests Spread to North CarolinaLike teachers in other states, those in North Carolina are looking to political changes in November to secure legislative support for their demands.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. Primary Roundup: Victories for Women and ProgressivesPennsylvania’s all-male congressional delegation will be a thing of the past. And Nebraskans made a surprise choice.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. politics
    Red State Republicans Are Trying to Trump Each Other’s TrumpinessGOP candidates for governor of Georgia are tripping over each other to sound like Trump on “the swamp” and sanctuary cities.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. David Brooks Wants to Fix America With One Weird Trick From the 1800sThe Whigs expired, justly, for elevating pragmatism over the need to address a big national issue. They’re the last thing we need today.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. the national interest
    The Michael Cohen Bribery Scandal Is Now a Trump Bribery ScandalTurns out Cohen was not just soliciting money, but allegedly passing it on to the Trump family.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. power
    Why Washington Insiders Decide to LeakInside the national-security press offensive against the president.
    By Nicholas Zimmerman
  12. Gina Haspel Set to Be CIA Director After Several Democrats Back HerMcCain urged fellow senators not to confirm Haspel. All he accomplished was highlighting the Trump administration’s refusal to apologize.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. Voters Who Like ‘Medicare for All’ May Not Support Single-PayerTruth is, single-payer is very different from Medicare, even if it borrows the Medicare “brand.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. North Korea Appears to Be Shutting Down Its Nuke-Testing SiteBut we’ve been here before, and there’s a long way to go before Pyongyang’s nuclear program is closed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Today’s Primary Preview: 3 Quiet States and Some Pennsylvania NoiseThe aftermath of re-redistricting in Pennsylvania’s House delegation is the highlight of four states’ primaries.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. Why Trump Is Suddenly Worried About Saving Jobs in China: 6 TheoriesSaving ZTE, which violated U.S. sanctions, may be about helping U.S. companies, the midterms, Trump Organization profits — or maybe all of the above.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. Poor People’s Campaign Begins With Protests and ArrestsIn a revival of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy project that brought protestors to Washington in 1968, the protests will continue for 40 days.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Trump: Leakers Are Cowards, Traitors, Also Do Not ExistThe president explores the mind-bending frontiers of unreality he has created.
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. the national interest
    Trump’s Environmental Plan: Bigger Government, More PollutionThe Republican Party has forgotten the ideological reason it fell in love with coal in the first place.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. 3 States Are Pushing Medicaid Reforms That Discriminate Against Black PeopleFunny how this works: White midwestern conservative lawmakers are exempting their own rural constituents from Medicaid work requirements.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. Jerusalem Embassy Opening Features Two Religious Leaders Accused of BigotryThe Trump administration managed to make the move from Tel Aviv a bit more controversial.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  22. White House Leaker Covers Tracks by Impersonating Co-workersAnother staffer reportedly looked into spying on his colleagues’ phone and email data in an effort to figure out who was talking with reporters.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  23. Following Trump’s Lead, White House Will Not Apologize for McCain ‘Dying’ RemarkThough Kelly Sadler told Meghan McCain that she’d offer a public mea culpa, and even Republicans are criticizing the White House.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  24. behind the scenes
    The Strange Cocoon of Trump and Hannity, Two Friends Who Like to Talk Before BedLife inside the bunker of Fox News’ resident Trumplegänger.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  25. foreign policy
    Pompeo Says North Korea Will Get Americans Instead of AidThe Trump administration apparently thinks the communist nation will accept capitalism in exchange for its nukes.
    By Chas Danner
  26. Second Democrat Comes Out in Support of Gina HaspelBarring some truly unexpected votes, she will be the next CIA director.
    By Benjamin Hart
  27. Is the 2018 Democratic Wave Receding?The big picture still suggests a positive picture for Team Blue — but there are a lot of questions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. DHS Secretary Nielsen is Not MAGA Enough for Trump’s White HouseApparently minding her own business in 2016 makes Nielsen a member of Never Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. Trump Wants to Pull Federal Funds From Organizations That Talk About AbortionThe new rule would ban facilities receiving Title X family-planning funds for low-income women to provide or even discuss abortion services.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. Richard Cordray Proves Voters Might Not Want a Showman, Even in the Age of TrumpThe Democrats’ nominee for Ohio governor is testing the theory that competence, not flash, is the key to winning in 2018 — and maybe 2020.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  31. the national interest
    Trump Made 6 Populist Promises. He Has Now Broken Them All.Trump ran to the left on the economy. While nobody was looking, he abandoned his last promise to be a different kind of Republican.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. Americans With No Religion Greatly Outnumber Those Powerful White EvangelicalsWhile conservative evangelicals were busy boasting about their numbers and power, they started shrinking like other U.S. faith communities.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. foreign policy
    Trump’s Iran-Deal Exit Has Raised the Risk of War, Even Faster Than ExpectedIsrael and Iran are running out of reasons not to escalate their low-key conflict in Syria into a broader regional catastrophe.
    By Jonah Shepp
  34. White House Aide on McCain’s Opposition to Haspel: ‘He’s Dying Anyway’Cindy McCain chided communications official Kelly Sadler following reports that she joked about the senator’s battle with brain cancer.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. Will California Voters Blame High Gas Prices on Democrats or Trump?Gas prices are rising everywhere, but especially in California, where higher taxes are coinciding with Trump’s unsettling Middle Eastern policies.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. the national interest
    Giuliani’s Law Firm Explains Law Doesn’t Work the Way Giuliani SaysNow it’s his ex–law firm.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. Cheney Endorses Haspel and a Return to TortureOnce again, Dick Cheney fires on a friend.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. the national circus
    Why Liberal Media Need Conservative ColumnistsIt’s the only way to keep your own thinking honest.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. George Will Calls ‘Repulsive’ Pence Worse Than TrumpThe vice-president has lost the independent reputation that made him a potential survivor of a Trump meltdown.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. Trump Greets 3 Americans Freed by North KoreaHe met Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim, and Kim Dong-chul when they landed in Maryland, and said Kim Jong-un was “really was excellent” to them.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. How Michael Cohen Profited Off His Meager Trump Administration ExpertiseBeing shut out by the White House led to Cohen selling himself to corporations as the ultimate Trump insider.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  42. John McCain Urges Senate to Reject Gina Haspel for CIA DirectorThe Arizona senator, who is home battling brain cancer, said, “Her refusal to acknowledge torture’s immorality is disqualifying.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  43. #MeToo in the Pews: A Backlash Against the Baptist PatriarchyAn unprecedented revolt against a conservative icon of the largest conservative evangelical denomination shows that the #MeToo movement is everywhere.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. the national interest
    Trump Promised a Yuge Infrastructure Bill. White House Said It’s Not Happening.We’ll always have the many Infrastructure Weeks.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. Trump Demands More Stringent Work Requirements for Food Stamps RecipientsIt’s a great way for Trump to demagogue about shiftless welfare bums without actually making major changes in a popular program.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. Conservatives Confident Trump Has Thought Through Next Step of Iran StrategyThere’s no way Donald Trump would just go off half-cocked and pull out of a complicated international agreement with no idea what happens next, right?
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. the national interest
    Trump Admits He Calls All Negative News ‘Fake’Decades of conservative efforts to insist the media is biased against them just went up in smoke.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. foreign policy
    Pompeo Is Returning From North Korea With U.S. CaptivesKim Hak-song, Tony Kim, and Kim Dong-chul have been freed.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  49. Gina Haspel Promises Not to Reinstate Torture If Confirmed As CIA DirectorDuring Wednesday’s hearing, she’ll pledge not to restore the “detention and interrogation program” she previously participated in.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  50. Favorites Win Nearly Everywhere on First Big Primary Night of 2018With the exception of a GOP House member losing in North Carolina, upsets were few and far between in a four-state primary night.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. Blankenship Sunk in West Virginia After Giving National GOP a ScareBoth Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump worked to take down the eccentric ex-con who was beginning to look like another Roy Moore.
    By Ed Kilgore
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