1. the national interest
    The Kochs Can’t Make America Stop Hating Trump’s Tax CutRepublicans think their poor trillion-dollar corporate tax cut is just misunderstood.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. McConnell Says No to Ryan’s Dream of Cutting Entitlements in 2018Ryan wants to use power to achieve ideological goals. McConnell wants power for power’s sake.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. The Republican Civil War Might Be Coming to Mississippi in 2018Senator Thad Cochran is rumored to be stepping down soon due to poor health. The race to replace him could get wild.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. How the Trump Tax Bill Will Affect YouIt’s all pretty complicated, and it’s coming fast.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. Trump’s Main Contribution to Passing the Tax Bill: Staying the Hell Away From ItWhile Trump’s legacy may be heavily associated with the GOP tax bill, Republicans are relieved he just wasn’t all that involved in it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. the national interest
    Trump Boasts He Has Repealed Obamacare, Does Not Understand How Law WorksPromises “something terrific,” which he has somehow failed to reveal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. The GOP Probably Isn’t Going to Shut Down the Government to Save ObamacareThe promises Collins secured from McConnell only go so far.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. the national interest
    Wall Street Journal Killed Editorial on Trump’s Mob TiesSo that’s why five staffers departed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. the national interest
    Republicans Didn’t Reform the Tax Code. They Never Wanted To.Republicans ruled out writing a bill premised on their own supposed goals.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. the national interest
    How the Trump Tax Cuts Solved the Democrats’ Campaign ProblemThe congressional party now stands behind Trump’s secrecy and self-enrichment.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. explainers
    How Brazil Went From Neoliberal Success Story to Political Chaos in 10 YearsAnd what that tells us about Robert Mueller and Donald Trump.
    By Nicholas Zimmerman
  13. U.S. Accuses North Korea of Instigating Vast Cyberattack“We do not make this allegation lightly, and we are not alone with our findings, either.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  14. foreign policy
    Trump’s National Security Plan Only Makes Sense If the World Is a Zero-Sum GameAnd even then, it’s light on detail and innovative strategies.
    By Jonah Shepp
  15. the national interest
    Republicans Say Democrats Secretly Like the Trump Tax Cuts. Uh, No.“Their hearts are there,” says Ivanka Trump. No, they’re really not.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. russia probe
    Mueller Probe Expected to Last Through 2018, Despite What Trump’s Lawyers SayA meeting later this week between Trump’s attorneys and Mueller’s is expected to confirm that the White House timetable is highly unrealistic.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. Trump Pulling Gorsuch Over ‘Disloyalty’ Would’ve Been Crazier Than Firing ComeyTrump reportedly reconsidered his Supreme Court nomination — one of his only major accomplishments — due to Gorsuch’s mild, strategic criticism.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  18. U.S. Isolated on U.N. Security Council As Allies Condemn Trump Jerusalem ActionTrump has united the world all right: against the United States.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Trump Judicial Nominee Who Flopped at Hearing Withdraws NominationA small victory for competence.
    By Benjamin Hart
  20. North Korea and Iran Are Footnotes in Trump’s National Security SpeechMaybe we can get through the holidays without a preemptive war.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. Trump Reacts to Train Crash by Tweeting About His TBA Infrastructure PlanThis doesn’t make any sense from a political or human-behavior perspective.
    By Benjamin Hart
  22. House GOP May Skip Town and Cause a Pre-Christmas Government ShutdownPaul Ryan and the House GOP are jumping off a cliff and hoping the Senate follows. If they don’t, the government will shut down.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. Trump Revises 2017 Election History, Predicts GOP Win in 2018Since Trump can never be wrong, he’s treating 2017’s special elections as one long GOP triumph, which will be repeated next November.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the national interest
    Why Trump Might Fire Rod Rosenstein Instead of Robert MuellerThe question is not so much whether Trump will erupt in rage but when, and where he will direct it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. Trump Administration Dropping Climate Change As National Security ThreatHurricanes, floods, and fires don’t count.
    By Benjamin Hart
  26. Congress Fears Release of Bombshell Sexual-Misconduct Exposé That May Not ExistMeanwhile, more lawmakers are embracing calls to reform the current reporting system, which doesn’t satisfy victims or the accused.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  27. The Right (and Wrong) Lessons to Take From Doug Jones’s Win in AlabamaBe careful of over-interpretation by partisans. But Jones’s win shouldn’t be under-interpreted, either.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. the national interest
    America Hates the Republicans, and They Don’t Know WhyA party’s puzzling lack of self-reflection.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. foreign policy
    Putin Calls Trump to Thank CIA for Helping to Prevent Terrorist AttackAnd the two leaders clearly want the whole world to know how well they get along.
    By Chas Danner
  30. Trump: ‘No, I’m Not’ Considering Firing Robert Mueller“What, are you surprised?”
    By Benjamin Hart
  31. russia investigation
    Are Trump’s Transition Lawyers Attempting to Discredit Mueller?They claim Mueller unlawfully obtained thousands of private emails from Trump’s transition-team members, but the accusation looks pretty weak.
    By Chas Danner
  32. early and often
    Trump Plans to Help More Republicans Lose in 2018The historically unpopular president wants to do a lot more endorsements and rallies to help GOP midterm candidates.
    By Chas Danner
  33. lost causes
    Roy Moore Won’t Accept Reality, Fundraises for ‘Election Integrity Fund’Math be damned, the defeated candidate is pushing voter fraud.
    By Chas Danner
  34. CDC Pushes Back on Report That It Told Staffers to Stop Using Seven WordsThe initial report was reminiscent of both Big Brother and George Carlin.
    By Benjamin Hart
  35. The Rock May Run for President When He Can Get Around to ItIn what is increasingly not just a joke, Dwayne Johnson says he’s mulling a presidential campaign, but not until he has time, probably in 2024.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. Kansas Democrat Is First Female Political Casualty of the ‘Reckoning’An old company settlement with a man alleging sexual harassment brought down the promising congressional candidacy of Andrea Ramsey.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. The Amendment Allowing Churches to Get Political Is Gone From the GOP Tax BillIt was spiked by the Senate parliamentarian.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. Alabama’s Christian Right Has Been Doubly Disgraced in 2017In Roy Moore and former governor Bentley, the state’s conservative Evangelicals have backed two bad apples from the same basket.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. the national interest
    FBI Agent ‘Scandal’ Revealed to Be Even More Stupid Than Previously KnownThe allegedly pro-Clinton FBI agent turns out to have also sent texts criticizing Clinton.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. The GOP’s Biggest Problem Is Not Its Candidates, But Its PresidentTrump can’t accept that he is damaging his party down-ballot. And that could send his party off in search of illusory “fixes.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. the national interest
    Advisers Afraid to Bring Up Russian Hacking Around Trump Because It Triggers HimIs it possible he is guilty?
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. Graham: 70 Percent Chance of War With North Korea If It Tests More NukesThe hawkish South Carolinian is credibly terrifying in describing Trump’s intentions if North Korea keeps being North Korea.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. the national interest
    Paul Ryan to Go Out in a Blaze of Randian GloryThe Speaker plans one more attack on the lazy takers before he retires or is purged.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. The Democratic Wave Is Coming in 2018This year’s special elections and a host of objective factors continue to point toward a good midterm for the Donkey Party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. the national interest
    FBI Agents Sending Anti-Trump Texts Is Not a ScandalIt’s just another pretext to quash the Mueller probe.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. the national interest
    Republicans Say Tax Cuts Are Paul Ryan’s Pope“Is it a Boehner-meeting-the-pope moment?,” a Republican asks about the tax cuts.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. Doug Jones’s Victory Shows the Way Forward for Democrats in the SouthDoug Jones assembled the same kind of biracial coalition that always worked for southern Democrats, but without being conservative. Get used to it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. Republicans Rush Toward Final Tax Bill AgreementMaybe the tax agreement isn’t that tightly wrapped, but Republicans need some positive news ASAP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. the national interest
    How Trump’s ‘Grab Them by the Pussy’ Comments Might Lose Him Congress in the EndThe long fuse of the Billy Bush tape may explode in the president’s face.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. dreamers
    Democrats Abandon Threats to Shut Down Government to Protect DreamersAfter some saber-rattling, congressional Democratic leaders have decided to pursue Dreamer protections through bipartisan negotiations.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. We Now Know FBI Agents Called Trump an ‘Idiot,’ But Not Why That’s RelevantWhile the text messages released by the Justice Department added fuel to attacks on Mueller, we still know little about their significance.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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