1. Trump Falsely Claims That Armed Forces Would Stop Functioning in ShutdownHe made the obviously wrong point on Friday morning.
    By Benjamin Hart
  2. the national interest
    David Brooks Picked a Bad Week to Say Trump ‘Runs a Normal, Good Meeting’“Trump is not the raving madman they expected,” reported the New York Times’ Reasonable Conservative.
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Remark Sparks Outrage, But Not From Most RepublicansThe majority of GOP lawmakers had nothing to say about Trump’s comment, and some Republicans defended it.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  4. High-Tax States Designing Workarounds to Blunt GOP Tax Bill ImpactIn C.A., N.Y., and N.J., Democratic pols are designing “charitable contribution” schemes to maintain federal tax breaks eliminated by Trump bill.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. the national interest
    The Pathological Cruelty of Trump’s Medicaid Work RequirementAn administration that sees health insurance as a privilege finds a new expression for its ideology.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. Trump Losing Ground With Women, Especially in the White Working ClassThe very large gender gap Donald Trump has generated is really beginning to cut against his reelection odds.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. the national interest
    Confused Trump Tricked by Fox News Into Opposing His Own Surveillance BillOh dear, this morning’s Executive Time is not going well.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. Zinke Says Florida Got Offshore-Drilling Exemption Because Governor Asked NicelyNow the Interior secretary is being bombarded by not-so-polite requests from state lawmakers of both parties.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. GOP Leaders Mull Giving Up on Obamacare Repeal, Getting Much Else Done in 2018They might skip passing a budget this year, which means no reconciliation, and no passing major legislation without Democrats.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  11. scandals
    Missouri Governor Eric Greitens Admits Affair, Denies He Threatened BlackmailIn a recorded conversation, a woman claims he took a nude photo without her consent, and threatened to publicize it if she exposed their affair.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. Are Republicans Violating Your Right Not to Vote?Maintaining the right to vote may depend on keeping people who don’t always vote on the rolls, as a Ohio case before the Supreme Court shows.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. Chris Christie’s Hard-Earned Unpopularity Is His Most Enduring LegacyChris Christie thinks the failure of his presidential campaign tanked his popularity back home. It’s more like the other way around.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. the national interest
    Trump’s Deals Keep Collapsing Because He Can’t Speak for His Own AdministrationIt’s hard to make a deal with a president if the president doesn’t understand anything about the deal beyond his belief that deals are good.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. donald trump
    Arpaio’s Senate Candidacy Is Not Just a Bad JokeSheriff Joe Arpaio lost his job in 2016 and then was pardoned by Donald Trump. Now he’s running for the Senate and has some serious support.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. the national interest
    Why Republicans Love Dumb PresidentsDonald Trump and the politics of anti-intellectualism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. Guess Which Line Was Missing From the Transcript of Trump’s Immigration MeetingHint: The one in which he agreed with a Democratic senator, to the horror of Republicans.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  18. Trump Attorney Michael Cohen Sues BuzzFeed, Fusion GPS Over Russia DossierThe defamation suits were announced just as BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith issued a public defense of the decision to publish the dossier in full.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. Trump Always Had the Power to Ruin Bannon, But His Strategist Didn’t See ItUntil the very end, Bannon seemed unable to admit he’d so thoroughly screwed himself, and unwilling to believe that even his own had turned on him.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  20. Steve Bannon to Step Down From Breitbart NewsQuotes attributed to him in Michael Wolff’s book made his position untenable.
    By Benjamin Hart
  21. the national interest
    Trump Holds Meeting to Show He’s in Charge, Instead Proves OppositeMitch McConnell reportedly said, “He’ll sign anything we put in front of him.” Trump admits it on television.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. the national interest
    Why Do We Say Trump Was ‘Accused’ of Groping? He Confessed.The weird status of the groper-in-chief in the post-Weinstein world.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. We Should Take Oprah 2020 Seriously, But Not LiterallyThe minute Oprah Winfrey becomes a politician, she’ll lose altitude, but she’d start from lofty heights.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. russia probe
    No Sane Lawyer Would Let Trump Sit for an Interview With MuellerThe president is a walking, talking perjury trap.
    By Cristian Farias
  25. the national interest
    Why Conservatives Outsourced Environmental Policy to Lobbyists and KooksA revealingly credulous profile in conservatism’s flagship magazine.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. games
    How Do You Watch the Olympics in the Shadow of Nuclear Apocalypse?If you thought Putin’s 2014 Games were scary, wait until you put an Olympic Games less than 50 miles from the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
    By Will Leitch
  27. 6 Times Trump Derailed His Own Infrastructure PlanFrom competing with Comey’s testimony to telling lawmakers his administration’s rebuilding strategy won’t work.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  28. foreign policy
    Trump Team Mulls Giving North Korea ‘Bloody Nose,’ Betting Kim Won’t RetaliateTop officials are reportedly considering whether the U.S. could launch a limited strike on Kim Jong-un’s regime without starting a war.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  29. Stephen Miller Attacks CNN’s Journalism During Softball Fox News InterviewHe said he’s glad his off-air jabs at Jake Tapper were made public, but denied he had to be escorted off set.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. Trump Administration Tells Almost 200,000 Salvadorans to Leave U.S. by 2019Unless Congress acts, many long-standing residents will face the risk of deportation.
    By Benjamin Hart
  31. College-Football Fans at Title Game Squeezed by Ticket Prices, Ice, and TrumpIt’s going to be a complicated evening in downtown Atlanta.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. Trump Said to Sour on Infrastructure Plan His Team Is Still PushingHe reportedly told GOP leaders public-private partnerships won’t work, then Gary Cohn promoted them a day later.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. feuds
    It Appears Stephen Miller’s CNN Meltdown Wasn’t Just for ShowJake Tapper suggested he was hamming it up for the president, but Miller reportedly had to be escorted from the studio.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  34. trump twitter
    Can You Spot All the Errors in Trump’s ‘Consensual Presidency’ Tweet?Autocorrect has been enormously consequential for late-night tweeters.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. climate change
    The Rockefellers vs. Exxon, the Company That Made Them the RockefellersThe family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  36. bloopers
    Trump’s Greatest Worst Hits of 2017The number of gaffes and falsehoods issuing from the president last year was so high that you may have forgotten some of the less notorious ones.
    By Eric Levitz and James D. Walsh
  37. work-life balance
    Report: Trump Works From 11-6, Sort OfAnd the president has a lot of “Executive Time” for calls, cable news, and tweeting.
    By Chas Danner
  38. President Trump Announces Delay of Fake News AwardsIt’s still shaping up to be the biggest event of the year for the fake-news industry.
    By Benjamin Hart
  39. Bannon: I Didn’t Mean the Stuff I Said About Trump Jr.Some rare damage control from the former White House chief strategist.
    By Benjamin Hart
  40. Jake Tapper Cuts Off Stephen Miller After Deeply Strange Interview“I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  41. foreign policy
    Pakistan Is a Problematic Ally, But Trump Cutting It Off Won’t Change ThatEnding U.S. security assistance in an effort to sever Pakistan’s ties to terror groups shows the administration has misjudged a complex situation.
    By Jonah Shepp
  42. politics
    Trump on Russia Investigation: I Do Things ‘100 Percent Proper’The president weighed in on that and several other topics during an impromptu press availability on Saturday.
    By Chas Danner
  43. mental health
    Trump Insists He’s a ‘Very Stable Genius’ in Response to Mental-Fitness ConcernsHe says his mental health and intelligence are his two greatest assets.
    By Chas Danner
  44. Voters Are Starting to See Trump As a Garden-Variety ConservativeIn 2016 he benefited from many voters perceiving him as moderate or even liberal. There aren’t so many anymore.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. The GOP’s Dilemma: Avoiding Disaster in 2018 Will Embolden Trump to Run in 2020You really have to wonder how long Republicans can stand this dance on the precipice with their unstable president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. the national interest
    Republicans Are Weaponizing Law Enforcement Against Trump’s EnemiesHillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, and now Christopher Steele are being harassed with dubious charges.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. the national interest
    Republicans Turn on Bannon for Telling the Truth About TrumpA book detailing that the president’s unfitness has had the perverse outcome of solidifying party support for that very president.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. feuds
    Trump Proves He’s Still Got It, Dubs Bannon ‘Sloppy Steve’He may not be fit for the presidency, but he’s got a gift for sophomoric nicknames.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  49. His Voter Fraud Panel Folded, Kobach Turns His Attention to Ruining KansasPity poor Kansas, which has suffered through two terms of Sam Brownback’s fiscal punishment, and now could wind up being misgoverned by Kobach.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Trump’s Scary Lurch Into Book-BanningEfforts to stop publication of Michael Wolff’s book don’t reflect well on a president whose support for the First Amendment was already suspect.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. Trump’s War on the Coastal States Includes More Offshore Drilling, Less SafetyHe’s doing this despite bipartisan opposition from governors.
    By Ed Kilgore
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