1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Trump Executive Order Could Gut Obamacare MarketsBy making healthy people flee them.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. 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
  8. Trump Eloquently Defends Throwing Paper Towels to Crowd of Puerto Ricans“The cheering was incredible.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. Right Wing Tries to Paint Harvey Weinstein As a Democratic ProblemNever mind who’s in the Oval Office.
    By Benjamin Hart
  10. Trump Reaches Out to Chuck Schumer on Health CareBut any kind of bipartisan deal is a long way off.
    By Benjamin Hart
  11. Trump Says ‘Puerto Rico’ Repeatedly in a Spanish AccentKeep the presidency weird.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. Poll Shows Trump Dipping to 32 Percent ApprovalAnd his standing slipping among Republicans.
    By Benjamin Hart
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Bowe Bergdahl to Plead Guilty to Desertion Before the EnemyHe could spend the rest of his life in prison.
    By Benjamin Hart
  16. the national interest
    Is Trump About to Trigger a Cabinet ‘Suicide Pact’?Implosion watch.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. the national interest
    Trump Furious Tillerson Refused to Deny Calling Him a MoronThere’s even moron this story.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. 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
  19. ‘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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. Trump’s Attacks on San Juan Mayor Draw Widespread CriticismPuerto Ricans “want everything to be done for them,” the president said.
    By Benjamin Hart
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. Tom Price Resigns as Health and Human Services SecretaryAfter reports emerged about his expensive private jet travel.
    By Benjamin Hart
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. the national interest
    Most of the Trump Tax Cuts Would Go to Richest One Percent, Study FindsAstonishingly, President Trump’s claims about the plan do not actually hold up to scrutiny.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. Deportations Down in 2017 Despite More Immigration ArrestsAnd way down from a few years ago.
    By Benjamin Hart
  46. Right-to-Lifers Look for a New Hostage for Their DemandsThe anti-abortion lobby is rejecting suggestions to wait until next year to defund Planned Parenthood. They want to put it in the tax bill right now.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. A Look at Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Blue-State Tax HikeA GOP proposal to kill the deduction for state and local taxes mostly hits high-tax, high-income blue states, but some House Republicans will object.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. If Price Is Fired, What About the Rest of Trump’s Private-Jet-Loving Cabinet?The president hinted that he might ax his embattled HHS secretary, but Mnuchin, Pruitt, and Zinke’s travel habits have come under scrutiny too.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  49. the national interest
    The Berniecrats Have an Obama ProblemA small problem for the triumph of the revolution.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. Let’s Talk About Roy Moore’s Extremism on AbortionHis views should be terrifying to voters, even in arch-conservative Alabama. Democrat Doug Jones needs to put the spotlight on them.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. Labor Movement’s Worst Nightmare Heads Back to the Supreme CourtPublic-sector unions dodged a bullet last year when SCOTUS deadlocked on suit denying them fees for collective bargaining. But the threat is back.
    By Ed Kilgore
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