1. in conversation
    Bill de Blasio on Trump, Cuomo, and Getting New York to Like YouThe mayor thinks New Yorkers appreciate real talk, even if some of it is bad news. But also, he says, a lot of it isn’t.
    By Chris Smith
  2. The Trump Doctrine Falls FlatIt holds that the U.S. is the most powerful country, and every interaction should favor us. North Korea begs to differ.
    By Jonah Shepp
  3. Haley: North Korea ‘Begging for War’But she’s still looking for a diplomatic solution.
    By Benjamin Hart
  4. Reports: Trump to End DACA With 6-Month DelayIt’s likely up to Congress to save the program now.
    By Benjamin Hart
  5. 7 Big Questions About What Congress Will Do in SeptemberThe big storm in Texas and Louisiana has improved the visibility in Washington — but there’s still a lot to do and little time to do it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. scary things
    Trump Says U.S. Could Cut Off Trade With China After North Korean Nuclear TestFor the first time, the country has tested a bomb that exceeds the destructive power of the ones dropped on Japan during World War II.
    By Chas Danner
  8. big lies
    No Evidence Obama Tapped Trump Tower, DOJ Confirms in Rebuke of TrumpOne of the president’s biggest lies has been finally and officially exposed by his own administration.
    By Chas Danner
  9. harvey
    Trump Returns to Texas, Visits Harvey Victims and Relief WorkersThe president handed out hot dogs, posed for photos, and once again praised the government’s response to the disaster.
    By Chas Danner
  10. politics
    Kelly Trying to Cut Trump Off From Omarosa, BreitbartAs Kelly’s game of misinformation Whac-a-Mole continues, Trump is sneaking in calls, mainlining Fox News, and craving more right-wing printouts.
    By Chas Danner
  11. Reports: Trump Drafted Angry, Unsent Letter to Comey Before FiringNot surprisingly, it was about Russia.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. 2018 Will Be the Year That Trump Truly Becomes PresidentHe’s finally going to unite the country. Really.
    By Benjamin Hart
  13. the national interest
    America’s Worst Columnist Still Convinced Trump Is InnocentThe latest entry in Ed Rogers’s incompetent defenses of the Russia scandal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. Trump Continues Quest to Sabotage Obamacare, This Time by Cutting Ad MoneyThe administration will drastically reduce funding to encourage enrollment, which will help make their false claims of ACA collapse reality.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. People Denied Entry to U.S. Under Travel Ban Can Reapply for VisasThe case that blocked Trump’s original executive order has been settled.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. Uh-Oh: Tim Ryan Becomes the Star of a Republican Tax AdHis remarks were taken out of context in a GOP ad, but Tim Ryan can find ways to talk about economic growth without mentioning corporate tax cuts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. Judge Kills Obama Overtime Rule That Would Have Benefited 4 Million WorkersThe same Obama-appointed judge who froze implementation of a more generous rule for overtime pay last year struck it down for real today.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Need for Quick Harvey Funding Could Screw Up Plans for a Huge Fiscal PackageIt initially appeared Harvey funding would be a protective cloak for other must-pass fiscal bills. But with FEMA money running out, the timing’s off.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Trump May End DACA — and Still Hold Dreamers HostageA reported go-slow approach to rescinding DACA is compatible with a strategy of making Dreamers part of a broader immigration deal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. the national interest
    Trump, DeVos, and the Creation of an American OligarchyTrump was open about his racism, authoritarianism, and admiration for Putin. His great lie was that he would drain the swamp.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. the national interest
    Robert Mueller Just Took Away President Trump’s Best LeverageTrump’s pardons to keep his underlings quiet are suddenly worthless.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. LePage Insists Medicaid Is ‘Welfare’With Maine voters having a chance to expand Medicaid over Paul LePage’s objections, he wants the ballot to call the venerable program “welfare.”
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. Trump’s Tax Speech Empty of Tax Specifics, Budget ContextIt’s bad enough that the president’s “tax speech” had not a single specific proposal. He also didn’t mention how it would fit into the federal budget.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. Yes, Gone With the Wind Is Another Neo-Confederate MonumentWhile Gone With the Wind is not a chiseled monument in a public place, it contributed to the mythology supporting Jim Crow just as powerfully.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. Disaster-Funding Package Could Make Debt Default Fears Go Away for a Long TimeThe popular idea of packaging must-pass fiscal legislation with disaster relief has a new wrinkle: increasing the debt limit until after the midterms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. Suit Against DNC Dropped, Mostly Because DNC Can’t Rig Much of AnythingAnger among Sanders supporters about 2016 has intensified after a suit against the DNC was dismissed. But now, as then, the DNC’s not the problem.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. Body-Slammed Reporter Claims Congressman Gianforte Won’t Grant Him an InterviewThough Gianforte told the reporter, “I look forward to sitting down with you” in front of a judge.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  28. Trump Is Really, Really Unpopular With Young PeopleTrump’s approval rating among seniors and near-seniors is meh. Among under-30 folks, it’s reaching new lows.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. Gary Cohn: Only ‘Morons’ Pay the Estate TaxYour populist government at work.
    By Benjamin Hart
  30. the national interest
    Trump Doesn’t Have Tax Plan, Does Have Plan to Lie About ItThey’re going to call it “unrigging the economy” and let donors figure out the details.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. Republicans Confuse the Electoral College With ‘the American People’Conservatives search for arguments to justify system that shouldn’t exist, wind up defending the three-fifths clause.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. Harvey Both Makes, and Breaks, the Case for Flood-Insurance ReformJust as Texas Rep. Hensarling seemed to be putting together a bipartisan coalition for flood-insurance reform, flooding in his own state intervened.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. Disaster Money May Give Congress a Way Out of Its Fiscal CrisisWith disaster funding for Texas becoming the ultimate must-pass legislation, Congress could use it as a way out of September’s fiscal crisis.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. More Zoning Wouldn’t Have Protected Houston, But Less Sprawl Would Have HelpedHouston is famous for its hostility to land-use planning. That’s less of a problem than simply too much growth and ever-more frequent storms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. size matters
    Trump Fires Longtime Event Organizer Over Sparse Crowd at Phoenix RallyHe was reportedly upset to see some empty space in the room before he took the stage.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. the national interest
    Felix Sater Is the Third Potential Channel of Trump Collusion With Russia“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected.” Sounds kind of collusion-y.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. Breitbart News Will Try to Force Trump to Be Trump, Whether He Likes It or NotYou can expect Breitbart News to intensify its efforts to get Trump to stay “populist”, even if it mean repudiating key family members and advisers.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. Antifa Beats Up Trump Supporters, Fuels Right-WingersIt’s a good day for false equivalence.
    By Benjamin Hart
  39. Do the New Democratic Centrists Come in Peace?As the party moves left, a group that helped define the “hippy punching” politics of the Clinton presidency reboots and enters the fray.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. policing
    Trump to Lift Ban on Providing Military Gear to Local PoliceObama severely curtailed the program following the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. politics
    Rex Tillerson Won’t Say If Trump ‘Speaks for American Values’“The president speaks for himself.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  42. politics
    Trump Reportedly Wanted to Kill Arpaio Investigation Before ConvictionThe president apparently considered quashing Sheriff Joe’s criminal-contempt case months ago.
    By Benjamin Hart
  43. Could Trump Be About to Stab Luther Strange in the Back?After deflating Mo Brooks’s candidacy with a surprise endorsement of Luther Strange, reports now suggest Trump could turn his back on Strange, too.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. trump palace
    Trump ‘Adviser’ Sebastian Gorka Ousted From White HouseAnd it’s still not clear what he actually did there, other than be one of the president’s guard dogs on television.
    By Chas Danner
  45. Trump’s Anti-Anti-Racism Appeals to His Base’s White Racial GrievanceTrump’s core supporters seem fine with his inflammatory remarks on the Charlottesville violence because of a strong belief in white victimization.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. the national interest
    ‘I Alone Can Fix It’ Becomes ‘It’s Not My Fault’The insanity of a presidential strategy of shifting blame onto his own party.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. interesting times
    The Boston Rally Exposed the Left’s Intolerance of Free SpeechBoston’s mayor, police force, and protesters combined to shut down an event that was open to a wide range of opinions.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  48. the national interest
    Gary Cohn Defies Nazis by Supporting Their Favorite President“I will not allow neo-Nazis ranting ‘Jews will not replace us’ to cause this Jew to leave his job.” That’ll show ‘em.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. Trump Gives Up on GOP LawmakersHe’s reportedly distancing himself from Republicans in Congress so he can blame them if they fail to make his campaign promises reality.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  50. No, Impeaching Trump Would Not Reverse the 2016 ElectionsIf Trump were to be removed from office via impeachment, the GOP would continue to rule with much the same policies. So why all the talk of a “coup?”
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. Senators From Parties That Don’t Control White House Do Very Well in MidtermsHistory shows the party in the White House struggles to knock off incumbent senators in midterms. It’s one of many cross-cutting factors for 2018.
    By Ed Kilgore
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