1. the national interest
    Republicans Irked at Corker’s Myopic Obsession With Preventing Catastrophe“We’ve got so many other things that we need to be focusing on right now,” other than preventing millions of deaths.
    By Jonathan Chait
  2. Turkey’s Erdogan Blasts U.S. Ambassador As Diplomatic Crisis EscalatesAfter an exchange of visa sanctions, Erdogan is now accusing John Bass of manufacturing a crisis to hide embassy complicity in the failed 2016 coup.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. When Two Warring Parties Share a State’s U.S. Senate SeatsThe number of “split” Senate delegations is declining steadily, and with it the phenomenon of voters deliberately choosing a senator from each party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Trump Calls Senator Corker ‘Liddle Bob’ on TwitterThe insult sounds familiar.
    By Benjamin Hart
  5. the national interest
    Trump Implosion Watch: Adult Day-CareCenter EditionA new feature to record a presidency that feels like it cannot keep going on.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. When Moderate Republican Senators Walked the EarthConservatives love to complain about the moderate Republicans of the Senate. But they’ve been steadily declining in numbers, and are nearly extinct.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Lindsey Graham Almost Certainly Lied About Trump’s Golf ScoreAnd not very convincingly, either.
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. No One Should Rule Out a Trump Reelection in 2020As in 2016, Trump’s most important asset in 2020 could be a surprisingly vulnerable Democratic opponent.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. Feinstein Seeks to Join Senate’s Elite 90-and-Over ClubIf she runs and wins next year and serves a full term, Dianne Feinstein will become the fifth serving U.S. senator over the age of 90.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Steve Bannon’s Dubious Plan to Purge Senate RepublicansIt’s hard to tell whether it’s just talk or a real threat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. Sessions Issues ‘License to Discriminate’ to Conservative ChristiansLike Obama’s immigration actions that Sessions and Trump deplore, today’s “guidance” offers mercy to potential law breakers: just a different kind.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. Corker’s Alarm About Trump Starting ‘World War III’ Is Spot-on — and OverdueTrump’s erratic style is dangerous on the world stage, but Republicans knew that when they endorsed him.
    By Jonah Shepp
  14. Trump Executive Order Could Gut Obamacare MarketsBy making healthy people flee them.
    By Benjamin Hart
  15. theater
    Pence Flies to NFL Game to Stage Walkout Over Anthem ProtestsThe vice-president gave a master class in how not to orchestrate a political stunt.
    By Chas Danner
  16. Trump Eloquently Defends Throwing Paper Towels to Crowd of Puerto Ricans“The cheering was incredible.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  17. Right Wing Tries to Paint Harvey Weinstein As a Democratic ProblemNever mind who’s in the Oval Office.
    By Benjamin Hart
  18. Trump Reaches Out to Chuck Schumer on Health CareBut any kind of bipartisan deal is a long way off.
    By Benjamin Hart
  19. Trump Says ‘Puerto Rico’ Repeatedly in a Spanish AccentKeep the presidency weird.
    By Benjamin Hart
  20. Poll Shows Trump Dipping to 32 Percent ApprovalAnd his standing slipping among Republicans.
    By Benjamin Hart
  21. GOP Retirements May Determine Whether Democrats Take Back the House in 2018There are many things Democrats need to take back the House next year. One they don’t yet have is abundant GOP retirements.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. Trump Tweets His Way Into the Virginia Governor’s RaceThe same day a new poll shows the Democratic candidate taking a big lead.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. Bowe Bergdahl to Plead Guilty to Desertion Before the EnemyHe could spend the rest of his life in prison.
    By Benjamin Hart
  24. the national interest
    Is Trump About to Trigger a Cabinet ‘Suicide Pact’?Implosion watch.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. the national interest
    Trump Furious Tillerson Refused to Deny Calling Him a MoronThere’s even moron this story.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. House Budget Vote Necessary, But Not Enough, in the GOP’s Tax Cut PlansThe GOP dissenters in the House’s vote on a budget resolution setting up tax cuts indicate some potential problems ahead for the GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. ‘Bump-Stock’ Bill Offers Chance to Isolate Second Amendment AbsolutistsDianne Feinstein’s proposal to ban “bump-stock” devices creates an opportunity to drive a wedge between 2nd-amendment absolutists and other GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. the national interest
    GOP Congressman: Liberals Secretly Created Charlottesville Nazi RallyThe Republican Party’s openly stark-raving-bonkers wing has a new member.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. Voters, Not Just Politicians, Are Polarized by Party and IdeologyWhile some observers think of polarization as a Washington phenomenon that doesn’t reflect the citizenry, fresh evidence shows otherwise.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. the national interest
    The Debunked IRS Targeting Scandal Shows There Is No Sane Wing of the GOPA new report proves the “scandal” Republicans are certain of never existed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. Can Jared Kushner Save Criminal-Justice Reform From Jeff Sessions?Bipartisan criminal-justice reform failed last year, in part because of the Trump campaign and Jeff Sessions. But now Jared Kushner is onboard.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. Early 2020 California Primary Could Affect Republicans, TooWhile most of the buzz about California’s move to a March 2020 primary has focused on natives and on Democrats, it could affect Donald Trump as well.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. the national interest
    The GOP’s Best Tax Reform Idea Is Dead, and Its Next-Best Idea Is DyingPlan C is not going to work any better than plans A or B did. It’s over.
    By Jonathan Chait
  34. Obamacare Premiums Set to Skyrocket in 2018After the serial failure of GOP Obamacare-repeal bills, Republicans are now letting insurance rates go up instead of cooperating on a quick fix.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. the national interest
    The Race-baiter As Kindly Monarch: Trumpism in Puerto RicoA disaster opens a new window into the president’s creepy worldview.
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. House Passes 20-Week Abortion Ban on Near-Perfect Party VoteIt doesn’t much matter what a particular abortion bill proposes: Democrats are the pro-choice party, Republicans aren’t.
    By Ed Kilgore
  37. Trump Administration Supports Path to Citizenship, a.k.a. Amnesty, for DreamersIn the latest in a series of flip-flops, the Trump administration now seems to be endorsing eventual citizenship for beneficiaries of a deal on DACA.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. Will Justice Kennedy Sink Partisan Gerrymandering — or Save It?In a potential landmark case from Wisconsin, SCOTUS tries to decide if intent to rob minority-party voters of influence can be measured and corrected.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. the national interest
    Did Manafort Use Trump’s Campaign to Pay Back Russia?The darkest theory of the 2016 campaign becomes extremely plausible.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. CHIP Extension Dangerously Delayed Past Expiration DateWhat should have been a no-brainer is getting complicated and dangerous for the 9 million kids and pregnant women covered by CHIP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. media
    Preet Bharara Is Now in the Trump-Opposition BusinessThe prosecutor and his entrepreneur brother are trying to build a media empire for the resistance era. First step: a podcast.
    By Andrew Rice
  42. Study: Trump’s Endorsement Did Absolutely Nothing for Luther StrangeIn case you were wondering, some post-runoff polling from Alabama confirms that support for Luther Strange stayed flat after Trump backed him.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. the national interest
    Republicans Angry at Economists for Finding Their Tax Cuts Go to the RichWhy do the numbers keep showing that the GOP gives big tax cuts to the rich? Must be bias.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. select all
    Does Even Mark Zuckerberg Know What Facebook Is?The same company that gives you birthday reminders also helped ensure the integrity of the German elections.
    By Max Read
  45. puerto rico
    Trump and White House Keep Up Attacks on San Juan MayorThe president continues to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico with defensiveness and insults.
    By Chas Danner
  46. Trump’s Attacks on San Juan Mayor Draw Widespread CriticismPuerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them,” the president said.
    By Benjamin Hart
  47. The Strangely Normal Exit of Tom PriceIf you’re going to break the rules, you better be in good standing with Trump first.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  48. Who Will Replace Tom Price at Health and Human Services?HHS Secretary Price embarrassed Donald Trump and went down the tubes. Finding a suitable replacement won’t be easy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. Tom Price Resigns as Health and Human Services SecretaryAfter reports emerged about his expensive private jet travel.
    By Benjamin Hart
  50. The GOP’s New Budget Tries to Keep It Simple: Big Tax Cuts for the RichDespite temptations to massively cut spending or launch a new health-care bill, the Senate is keeping its eyeson the prize of tax cuts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. Transgender Candidate Challenges Virginia’s ‘Minister of Private Parts’in a big legislative race in Virginia, a leading cultural conservative who sponsored an anti-transgender “bathroom bill” is facing a trans opponent.
    By Ed Kilgore
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