1. Jared Kushner Loses His Right-hand Man Just When He Needs Him MostAs the world learns Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded and foreign officials sought to manipulate him, his spokesman Josh Raffel resigns.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  2. Trump Being Trump Seems to Make Him Less PopularThe GOP has an unusually acute problem in mobilizing a party base that glories in Trumpian outrages, without frightening the rest of the country.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. The Post-Millennials Should Scare the Hell Out of the GOPIf you think millennials are a bad demographic group for the old white man’s party, get a load of their successors.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Bob Corker Decides to Retire (This Time for Real)He would have faced a brutal primary battle if he had opted to run again.
    By Benjamin Hart
  5. BREAKING: Man Plans to Keep JobAny presidential critics under the illusion he would voluntarily hang it up after one term should wake up and smell the bitter coffee of Trump 2020.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. the national interest
    Obama’s Education Legacy Has Been Forgotten. Now He Has to Save It.The least-known reform of the Obama era is at risk.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. Every Gun Policy President Trump Has ProposedSince Parkland, Trump has been musing about various policies to combat gun violence. Here’s every idea he’s endorsed, and what he might actually do.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  9. West Virginia’s Statewide Teachers’ Strike ContinuesThe strike enters its fourth day tomorrow, as the state’s Republican attorney general hankers to intervene to stop the “illegal” action.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. Scott Pruitt Thinks Limited Government Is DivineIn an interview, Pruitt doesn’t say he thinks God wants us to despoil the earth, but he does think God hates Big Government.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Roy Moore Back in Action With Endorsement of Feminist-Hating Missouri CandidateIf there’s any Senate candidate out there who is following Moore’s twisted path, it’s probably Courtland Sykes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. the national interest
    Brave Trump Says He Would Have Disarmed Parkland Shooter With Bare HandsThe bone spurs have apparently healed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. SCOTUS Hands Trump Temporary Setback on DACA CancellationThe March 5 deadline set for DACA’s demise is now a dead letter as the Ninth Circuit and then perhaps SCOTUS will review Trump’s action.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. Utah GOP Passes New Rule That Could Eject Romney From BallotThis is probably less about the candidate than regular old party warfare.
    By Benjamin Hart
  15. the national interest
    Trump Might Be Too Busy to Talk to Robert Mueller, Says LawyerThat White House bedroom television isn’t going to watch itself.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. war on drugs
    Trump’s Plan to Solve the Opioid Crisis Might Involve Executing Drug DealersHe praises brutal policies in Singapore and the Philippines, and would reportedly love to replicate them — but he’ll settle for harsher sentences.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. U.S. Needs New FAA Head, Trump Generously Offers His Personal PilotPresident Trump has trusted John Dunkin to fly his jet since 1989, so obviously he should be on the short list to oversee civil aviation nationwide.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  18. foreign policy
    Why Are U.S. Troops Staying in Syria? The Trump Administration Won’t SayOfficials argued the military can remain there indefinitely, with no new authorization from Congress — but wouldn’t explain the long-term objectives.
    By Jonah Shepp
  19. The Wild Illinois Governor’s Race Shows Why the Midterms Remain UnpredictablePrimary challenges, like those on both sides of the Illinois contest, make it hard to handicap the 2018 gubernatorial landscape.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. the law
    The Second Amendment Is No Barrier to Stricter Gun LawsThe courts have found that even all-out bans on assault-style weapons are in harmony with the right to keep and bear arms.
    By Cristian Farias
  21. politics
    CPAC Speaker Needed Security Escort After Flagging Trump’s Sexual MisconductMona Charen chided conservatives for ignoring the president’s treatment of women, and later urged others to help fight off Trumpism.
    By Chas Danner
  22. russia investigation
    Democrats Release Declassified Rebuttal to Nunes MemoThe new memo details the various ways the Nunes memo was misleading or outright wrong.
    By Chas Danner
  23. the national interest
    The Nunes Memo Is Fake and the Russia Scandal Is Very RealWeeks later, a rebuttal destroys the Republican claim that the Deep State is conducting a witch hunt.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. national security
    Kushner Still Has Security Clearance, Despite Additional Reported IssuesThe Justice Department warned the White House that significant issues remain unsettled regarding Kushner’s background.
    By Chas Danner
  25. CPAC Audience Lets Trump Know It Cares More About Guns Than Tax CutsIn a strange but revealing direct poll of his adoring audience, Trump finds confirmation that the culture war matters most.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. politics
    U.S. Embassy Move to Jerusalem Is Happening Almost ImmediatelyWhen a real embassy facility is built in Jerusalem, it could be paid for in part by donations from conservative donors — including Sheldon Adelson.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. the national interest
    Trump Predicts ‘Crooked’ Media Will Endorse His ReelectionIt actually makes sense, if you think about it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. Donald Trump Is the Most Pure Conservative President EverTrump exists not because conservatism lost, but because it won.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. Trump’s Minor Gun Actions Are Probably All Congress Will AllowThe White House is rolling out tweaks to existing laws, but Republicans in Congress appear resistant to even the mildest gun-control measures.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. russia probe
    Robert Mueller Puts the Squeeze on Paul Manafort and Rick Gates Yet AgainA new indictment accuses them of carrying out an elaborate scheme to defraud both private financial institutions and the United States.
    By Cristian Farias
  31. MO Governor Indicted for Allegedly Taking Nude Blackmail Photo of Illicit LoverEric Greitens is in legal trouble for how he dealt with his former lover. But he’s also in danger of being impeached by his fellow Republicans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. the national interest
    The Trump Administration Is a Golden Age for Corporate CrimeThe federal government is enforcing hardly any rules at all on business.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. Liberal Think Tank Unveils New Alternative to Single-Payer Health CareYou can view the new CAP proposal as a sign of growing Democratic progressivism, or as a way to avoid the problems with single-payer plans.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. Do We Need Assault Weapons to Kill ‘Tyrannical’ Cops and Soldiers?Let’s take a closer look at the sinister argument that we need a heavily armed population in case violent revolution becomes necessary.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. CPAC Is Going to Be a Trump-FestWhatever past conservative issues with Donald Trump, this year’s CPAC is a testament to his conquest of the movement.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. How Don McGahn Has Become the Worst White House Counsel EverHe has played a key role — often unacknowledged — in a long list of Trump administration debacles.
    By Cristian Farias
  37. the national interest
    Trump: I Never Said Give Teachers Guns, But It Would Be AwesomeThe president carefully lays out the logic of a proposal he does not and never has advocated.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. Activists Seek to Keep Gun-Safety Movement Student-LedGun-control groups and celebrities are offering assistance, but trying not to taint the teens’ grassroots campaign.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  39. Trump Wants Armed Teachers and Universal Background ChecksIn a “listening session” on gun control, Trump floated some unhinged ideas along with some downright reasonable ones.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. The GOP Is Serious About Impeaching P.A. Judges for Reversing Their GerrymanderRepublican legislators in Pennsylvania have the power to impeach and remove judges. But could that backfire in the court of public opinion?
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. the national interest
    Trump’s Opponents Are Not a Rich Liberal EliteA provocative but wrong New York Times op-ed by Amy Chua calls coastal liberals a “market-dominated minority.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. Billy Graham Lived at the Crossroads of Faith and PowerAfter getting too close to Richard Nixon, Billy Graham stayed away from partisan politics. But his son Franklin Graham is up to his ears in it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. the national interest
    Trump Briefly Demotes Jeff Sessions to Singular TenseThe latest humiliation for the beleaguered attorney general.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. Why ‘Red Flag Laws’ Are Gaining Bipartisan Support After ParklandGun-violence restraining orders offer a way to temporarily disarm the mentally ill, based on the concerns of family members and law enforcement.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  45. Democrat Takes Kentucky House Seat in District Trump Won by 49 PointsIt’s the 37th legislative seat Democrats have flipped since Trump’s election.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  46. the national interest
    Trump’s Jealous Obama Obsession Includes Claiming Obama Never Used Oval OfficeAnother weird detail in the president’s raging inferiority complex.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. Florida: Guns 1, Students 0Florida Republicans didn’t even wait a decent interval to shoot down a proposed assault weapons ban.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. Clarence Thomas Angry That SCOTUS Doesn’t Love GunsThomas can’t seem to get three other conservative justices to get aggressive in defending gun rights. So he’s drawing attention to the problem.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. The Debate Over Gerrymandering Is Changing in a Fundamental WayRedistricting isn’t just about nice-looking maps anymore.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Many Trump Voters Think We Need a White History MonthThe belief that rescuing the history of minorities in this country is itself racist is alarmingly widespread in MAGA-land.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. the national interest
    Trump: Why Didn’t Obama Stop the Russia Hacking I Abetted?When the criminals taunt the cops for failing to have prevented their crime.
    By Jonathan Chait
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