1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Trump: Leakers Are Cowards, Traitors, Also Do Not ExistThe president explores the mind-bending frontiers of unreality he has created.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Second Democrat Comes Out in Support of Gina HaspelBarring some truly unexpected votes, she will be the next CIA director.
    By Benjamin Hart
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Cheney Endorses Haspel and a Return to TortureOnce again, Dick Cheney fires on a friend.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. the national circus
    Why Liberal Media Need Conservative ColumnistsIt’s the only way to keep your own thinking honest.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. #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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. the national interest
    How Badly Has Russia Compromised American Government? [Updated]A firm tied to a Russian oligarch paid Michael Cohen, creating sources of kompromat. And Trump’s GOP allies are working to keep their secrets.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. the national interest
    McConnell Won’t Say If Blankenship Is Racist Until He Knows Election ResultOnce again, McConnell isn’t pretending to have any actual principles.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. Hatch Apologizes to McCain for Suggesting Trump Should Attend His FuneralEven one of the president’s most zealous supporters realized he was out of line on this one.
    By Benjamin Hart
  43. Schneiderman Shows It’s Risky to Choose a Male CandidateThe New York attorney general’s swift fall from champion of #MeToo to example of #MeToo fate is another warning to people in politics.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. From Impeachment to SCOTUS, Republicans Scramble for Ways to Rev Up the BaseFrom possible SCOTUS openings to impeachment to deep state conspiracies, the GOP is trying to get conservative voters psyched out of their skulls.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. the national interest
    Trump Legal Defense Prep Foiled by Trump’s Inability to Concentrate“In an informal, four-hour practice session, Mr. Trump’s lawyers were only able to walk him through two questions.” That’s bad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. foreign policy
    What Happens After Trump Pulls Out of the Iran DealThe agreement doesn’t stop existing the moment Trump reimposes sanctions, but it’s hard to see how it can survive in the long run.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  47. Trump Administration Says No to Medicaid Time Limits (for Now)While the administration lets states impose work requirements on those who receive Medicaid, it won’t let them just cut people off after three years.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. the national interest
    Oliver North and the Creation of Donald TrumpHow a right-wing law-breaker became a populist conservative hero and blazed the way for Trump.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. What to Watch on 2018’s First Super Tuesday of PrimariesWild who’s-the-Trumpiest GOP Senate races in Indiana and West Virginia and a Democratic gubernatorial fight in Ohio are the big events.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. the national interest
    Why Mueller Has to Expose Trump’s Crooked Business EmpireIf Trump is laundering money, and he probably is, the Russians know about it. So do Michael Cohen’s gangster friends.
    By Jonathan Chait
  51. first couple
    Melania, Who Swats Trump’s Hand Away, Might Not Like Spending Time With HimAs all the uncomfortable memes suggest, the First Couple are said to “spend very little to no time together.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
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