1. Remember World War II? That Was 5 Weeks AgoAnd other momentous events you may have forgotten happened in 2017.
    By Benjamin Hart
  2. Report: Papadopoulos, Not Dossier, Sparked Russia InvestigationThe scoop about Trump’s so-called “coffee boy” demolishes a key GOP talking point.
    By Benjamin Hart
  3. Trump Is Still Happily Mixing Government Affairs With His Private BusinessesAnd not a single Republican elected official seems to care.
    By Benjamin Hart
  4. Merkel’s Efforts to Teach Trump About Diplomacy Didn’t Go WellIt reportedly ended with the chancellor repeatedly explaining that Germany can’t negotiate trade deals separately from the E.U.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. What We Learned From Trump’s Rambling New York Times InterviewIt doesn’t sound like Mueller’s firing is imminent, but he declared, “I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. How to Maintain Your Sense of Proportion in the Trump EraThe closer we get to the 2018 and 2020 elections, the less sense it makes to treat Trump’s very presence as an intolerable, outrageous scandal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Roy Moore Files Lawsuit Alleging Voter Fraud Cost Him Alabama Senate RaceHe wants to keep Doug Jones’s win from being certified on Thursday, though Alabama officials say there’s no evidence of voting irregularities.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  9. russia probe
    If Flynn Is Just a Liar, Why Did Trump Keep Defending Him?There’s a flaw in Team Trump’s reported plan to attack Flynn’s credibility: basically everything the president has said about his former adviser.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. Can a #NeverTrump Republican Win in 2020? Don’t Bet on It.Anti-Trumpers long for a third option in the next presidential race, but their prospects are grim.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Thanks to GOP Tax Bill, Homeowners Rushing to Prepay Property Taxes Before 2018New restrictions on the deductibility of local property taxes are driving many homeowners to pay early and get the deduction one more time.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. encounter
    Touring ESPN With Jemele Hill, SportsCenter Anchor Turned Liberal Hero“There are times when certain things are happening in this world and I truly couldn’t care less about Jerry Jones’s fight with Roger Goodell.”
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  13. After Passing Trump’s Tax Cuts, What’s Next on the GOP’s Agenda?GOP leaders want to tackle infrastructure and welfare reform, but first they’ll have to address all the issues they pushed off to the new year.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. Pennsylvania Special Election Could Be the First Ripple in a Democratic Wave“I was Trump before Trump was Trump,” says the GOP nominee in a potentially competitive special election.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. Trump Administration Proposes Rolling Back Oil-Spill RulesSurely private industry doesn’t need any oversight on this stuff.
    By Benjamin Hart
  16. Roy Moore’s Candidacy Was in Trouble Even Before the Sexual-Abuse AllegationsJoe Trippi argues that abuse allegations against Roy Moore changed the focus of the race from the judge’s crazy record to the hated national media.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. GOP Representative Supports ‘Purge’ of FBI, Justice DepartmentThe Republican Party is sounding uncomfortably Stalinesque these days.
    By Benjamin Hart
  18. Nick Saban Gets Crushed in Alabama Senate ElectionMany thought Saban would get many write-in votes in a Senate contest between an alleged predator and a Democrat. He did not.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Trump Again Claims, Wrongly, That Obamacare Has Been RepealedWhatever gets you through the night, Mr. President.
    By Benjamin Hart
  20. Trump Tells Mar-a-Lago Crowd ‘You All Just Got a Lot Richer’ After Tax BillFor once, the president is honest about something.
    By Benjamin Hart
  21. Report: Trump Said Haitians ‘All Have AIDS,’ Nigerians Live in ‘Huts’Stunning but not surprising comments from our bigot-in-chief.
    By Benjamin Hart
  22. Exactly How High Could That 2018 Democratic Wave Rise?Yes, Republicans have some institutional advantages in their efforts to hang onto the House. But they only help so much in a wave election.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. Feinstein Is Vulnerable Next Year, But California Republicans Are in DangerCalifornia’s “Top Two” election is just months away, and while Republicans are struggling to survive, Tom Steyer could be formidable if he runs.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. Delirious December Gives Way to Jittery January As Congress Passes Spending BillCongress has kicked multiple cans down the road to January, but they won’t be able to stall any longer.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. Advisers Warn Trump About Prospect of Democratic Wave in 2018The president is said to be tracking the GOP’s challenges closely. But will he do anything to help?
    By Benjamin Hart
  26. the national interest
    Congress to Trump: Steal All You WantWhat the new Emoluments Clause ruling tells us.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. Tax Bill Will Make It Easier to Drown Your Sorrows Over the Tax BillIt didn’t get much attention, but the GOP tax bill gave a generous break to producers of beer, wine, and distilled spirits.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. Temporary Spending Bill to Include Temporary Funding for CHIPLooks like Congress will provide relief for the very popular but fiscally strapped program providing health insurance for kids.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. How the Trump Tax Bill Will Affect YouIt’s all pretty complicated, and it’s coming fast.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. the national interest
    Wall Street Journal Killed Editorial on Trump’s Mob TiesSo that’s why five staffers departed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. Trump Judicial Nominee Who Flopped at Hearing Withdraws NominationA small victory for competence.
    By Benjamin Hart
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. 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
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