1. President Trump Says He’ll Meet With Putin During Asia TripOh, to be a fly on the wall.
    By Benjamin Hart
  2. Could a Democratic Socialist Actually Win a Spot on City Council?Probably not, but Jabari Brisport’s campaign is still a sign of the post-Bernie new-left revival.
    By Frank Guan
  3. Bernie Sanders Hints at Possible Government Shutdown Over DACAHe joins three other Democrats.
    By Benjamin Hart
  4. politics
    Man Arrested After Assaulting Senator Rand Paul at His Home in KentuckyThe senator was “blindsided” by his neighbor, but received only minor injuries. The reason for the attack is not clear.
    By Chas Danner
  5. immigration
    300,000 Central American and Haitian Immigrants May Soon Face DeportationMany of the immigrants have U.S.-born children and own homes and businesses, and some have lived in the country for decades.
    By Chas Danner
  7. George H.W. Bush on Trump: ‘I Don’t Like Him’Tell us what you really think.
    By Benjamin Hart
  8. Elizabeth Warren Treating Bernie Sanders As the Leader of the Democratic PartyWarren’s comments about the 2016 primaries being “rigged” weren’t as provocative as her assertion that the party owes Sanders deference going forward.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. Trump and the GOP Are Running Against President Hillary ClintonNormally midterms are a referendum on the president. This president wants the focus to be on his vanquished 2016 opponent.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. the national interest
    The Republican Tax Plan Is Political SuicideA bill that reads like it was reverse-engineered from attack ads.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. Trump on Unfilled State Department Jobs: ‘I Am the Only One Who Matters’Just a normal president saying normal president stuff.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. Elizabeth Warren Agrees That the Democratic Primary Was ‘Rigged’The senator, who backed Clinton, said the DNC needs to restore confidence that the next nominee is “the candidate chosen by the people.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. Northam Now Saying He’d Ban Sanctuary Cities — If There Were Any in VirginiaOne of Ed Gillespie’s attack lines accuses his opponent of favoring sanctuary cities. It seems to have drawn blood.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. the national interest
    The House Republican Tax Cut Is a Failure on Its Own TermsPaul Ryan vowed not to repeat the mistake of the Bush tax cuts. He’s repeating it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. Trump Tax Bill Repeals Limits on Politicking From the PulpitIt would have no immediate impact, but repealing the Johnson Amendment redeems a major symbolic Trump promise to conservative Evangelicals.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. Trump Adviser Clovis Nomination to USDA Torpedoed by Russia ProbeIt’s been a long, strange trip for Trump adviser Sam Clovis since he joined the team in Iowa.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. Trump Tax Bill Hammers New York and CaliforniaOther than hitting the bicoastal upper-middle-class folk, the House GOP tax writers picked their fights carefully.
    By Ed Kilgore
  18. Trump Suggests GOP Take Another Shot at Repealing Obamacare in Tax BillJust when you thought the politics of the tax bill couldn’t get any more complicated, Trump has an idea.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. The Anti-Trump Republicans Issue a Scream Into an Uncaring VoidPrecisely when their influence over the GOP is at a low ebb, conservative Trump-haters call out to Republicans to recant.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. No, Removing Monuments to Traitors Doesn’t Mean Removing Monuments to FoundersConfederate monuments don’t embody American history; they were built on lies about American history.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. Americans Don’t Like Trump’s Favorite Tax IdeaA lower corporate rate is the crown jewel of the GOP’s tax plan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. the national interest
    Republicans Delay Tax-Cut Plan Again, Insist All is WellBy the way, is there anybody onboard who knows how to fly a plane?
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. russia probe
    Papadopoulos Email Claims Trump Campaign Approved Meeting With Putin’s OfficeIt’s possible the young campaign adviser was just bragging to a Russian contact.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  24. GOP in a Sweaty Panic on the Eve of the Tax-Bill UnveilingHouse Republicans have to find $5.5 trillion in spending cuts. By tomorrow.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. 2018 Senate Landscape Is Stable, With ‘Trump Ten’ Democrats Holding Their OwnSenatorial approval ratings are slipping slowly, but so are Donald Trump’s.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. the national interest
    Sanders Claims Kelly Learned Civil War Nonsense From Ken Burns. She’s Right.We would like to believe that nice Ken Burns could not depict the same ideas as nasty John Kelly.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. John Kelly Is As Deluded About the Confederacy As Donald Trump IsThe wise, gray head who is supposed to be restraining Donald Trump seems as reactionary as his boss is on key matters of history and culture.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. the national interest
    Trump Probably Shouldn’t Be Glad Campaign Manager Arrested for Federal CrimesPaul Manafort has done a lot of very bad things, and his indictment covers just a few of them.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. Trump Moves to Gut Obamacare Benefits RequirementsIt looks like another effort to sabotage Obamacare.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. The 3 Weirdest Things About Trump’s New Campaign Ad“President Trump will fix it.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  31. the national interest
    Trump Demotes ‘Excellent’ Consultant to ‘Low-Level Volunteer’He hires the best people.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. 500 Years After the Reformation Began, Christians Still DividedThe big dividing line among Christians today isn’t between Catholics and Protestants, but between liberals and conservatives in all faith traditions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. his city
    New York Still Doesn’t Like Trump, But We Made HimWe didn’t vote for him. But we know that, on some level, he is ours.
    By Mark Harris
  34. russia probe
    Democratic Lobbyist Tony Podesta Steps Down Amid Mueller ProbeHe has not been charged, but reportedly said he can’t do his job while “under attack by Fox News and the right-wing media.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. After Russia Indictments, John Kelly Revives Civil War, Gold Star ControversiesTrump has gone quiet, so the task of stirring up trouble on Fox News fell to his ostensibly no-nonsense chief of staff.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  36. U.S. Captures Suspected Plotter of Benghazi AttacksMore than five years later.
    By Benjamin Hart
  37. Trump’s Approval Ratings: How Low Can They Go?The answer could swing the midterm election.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. Trump Aide Pleaded Guilty to Lying About Contacts With RussianThis doesn’t look good for the president.
    By Benjamin Hart
  39. As Manafort and Gates Arrested, Trump Doubles Down on Clinton-Russia ‘Scandal’Trump throws former aides under the bus and goes after HRC yet again.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. the national interest
    The Republican Party Is Gearing Up for War on the Rule of LawThe GOP is not taking Robert Mueller’s indictments lying down.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. Former House Speaker John Boehner’s Nastiest Comments About Fellow RepublicansIn a new profile, Boehner claims he told Hannity that he’s “nuts,” calls the Freedom Caucus “anarchists,” and says Trump is “not a Republican.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  42. politics
    John Kasich’s Campaign Against Trump Never Stopped. And It Won’t Till 2020.One year after his failed run at president, the Ohio governor is plotting his path to another.
    By Lisa Miller
  43. Poll: Trump Even More Unpopular Than BeforeWhen does the winning begin again?
    By Benjamin Hart
  44. twitter
    Roger Stone Says He’ll Take Twitter to Court Following Permanent BanThe longtime Trump adviser was kicked off the platform after threatening CNN journalists on Friday.
    By Chas Danner
  45. Reports: Trump Likely to Tap Jerome Powell As Next Federal Reserve ChairIt would be an unusual, but not radical, pick.
    By Benjamin Hart
  46. Lewandowski: Focus Should Be on ‘Clinton Administration’ LiesHis slipup is an insight into GOP thinking.
    By Benjamin Hart
  47. Do Americans Know Where Our Troops Are and Why They Are There?The deaths of U.S. troops in Niger opened up a whole series of bigger questions about troop deployments and the strategies used to justify them.
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. President Trump Hands Children Candy, Tells Them ‘You Have No Weight Problems’Is there anything this guy can’t make weird?
    By Benjamin Hart
  49. Mitt Romney May Be Headed to the SenateThat’s bad news for Bannon.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Tennessee Braces for White-Supremacist Rallies on SaturdayAn even more extreme group than the one that roiled Charlottesville is planning “White Lives Matter” events in Tennessee.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. This Is What the Trump Abyss Looks LikeWith the help of his unyielding followers, the president is weakening our institutions day by day.
    By Andrew Sullivan
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