1. Six Questions About the Senate Health-Care Bill As the Endgame ApproachesThe GOP is still struggling for votes to bring up health-care legislation. If that succeeds, the deal-making and rules-breaking will get serious.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. profile
    Joe and Mika (and Donald): A Beltway Love StoryJoe, Mika, and their star-crossed relationship with the president.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  3. alternative facts
    Trump Still Doesn’t Accept That Russia Meddled in the ElectionWhite House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said on Sunday that the president thinks Russia is too smart to get caught hacking an election.
    By Chas Danner
  4. foreign policy
    Congress Set to Pass Trump-Proof Russia Sanctions, White House Signals SupportThe White House indicated on Sunday that the president will sign the bill rather than get into a veto fight. We’ll see.
    By Chas Danner
  5. awful things
    McCain’s Former Primary Foe Calls for Him to Resign, Citing Cancer DiagnosisShe also offered to take his seat. Her remarks didn’t go over very well.
    By Benjamin Hart
  7. Senate Parliamentarian May Have Dealt Last, No-Kidding-Final Blow to TrumpcareBy excluding from Trumpcare indispensable features, the Senate parliamentarian has probably killed the bill unless McConnell nukes her rulings.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Instead of a Reassuring Senior Communications Director, Trump Chose the MoochAt a time when the White House could benefit from a steady, respected hand to run the communications shop, Trump went in a very different direction.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. Here Is Where Things Stand With the Senate Health-Care BillMcConnell doesn’t have the votes to pass any version of it. But, in theory, he does have an incredibly narrow path to success.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. Some 2016 House GOP Landslide Winners May Not Be Safe in 2018A new analysis shows incumbents from the White House party usually lose a lot of points in midterms.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. Another Day, Another Scary CBO Score of Another Trumpcare BillThe latest version of Trumpcare would cost 22 million people health coverage, just like its predecessor, but McConnell has some room to maneuver.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. Despite Trump’s Rage at Him, Sessions Will Stay OnYou’d expect a presidential tirade against a top appointee to lead to a firing or resignation. Not with Donald Trump — but the optics are terrible.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. Despite Trump’s Demands, No Miraculous Health-Care Breakthrough for GOP SenatorsThe president seems to think more time and effort will overcome the divisions among Senate Republicans on health care. So far, no signs he’s right.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. the national interest
    Donald Trump: L’état, C’est MoiThe president explains his belief that a conflict of interest is any loyalty to anything but Trump.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. Why Did Mitch McConnell Fail, and What’s Next for Health Care?A former staffer for now-retired Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on the Trumpcare debacle.
    By Lily Carollo
  16. CBO Says Repealing Obamacare Without a Replacement Would Be a DisasterCBO says a “straight repeal” would cost 32 million their health coverage while doubling premiums.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. A Small Note on the Uses of DerisionWhat the discourse loses when commentators reserve our bile for the opposing party.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. Trump-Russia Scandal Could Be Trouble for ‘Putin’s Favorite Congressman’Most GOP congressmen are keeping their distance from the Trump family’s Russia scandal. That’s not an option for California’s Dana Rohrabacher.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Trumpcare’s ‘Orphans’ Must Search for New HomesSeveral provisions conservatives hitched to Obamacare repeal will need new legislative vehicles now that Trumpcare has crashed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Now What? Democrats Must Decide How to Exploit the Collapse of Trumpcare.Democrats could go small or big or refuse cooperation at all. But the party needs a strategy to deal with its sudden leverage over health-care policy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. There Aren’t Very Many Democratic Governors. That Could Change in 2018.With a lot of term-limited governors, the landscape for 2018 is unclear. But with more targets and a midterm breeze, Democrats should do better.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. the national interest
    Trump: 48 Senate Votes for Trumpcare ‘Impressive by Any Standard’He makes deals. That’s what he does.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national interest
    Wall Street Journal Can’t Think of Reason Trump Is Hiding His Russia Connections“If there really is nothing to the Russia collusion allegations,” the editorial posits, “transparency will prove it.” But, uh, what if not?
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. Senate GOP to Try Doomed Vote on ‘Straight Repeal’ of ObamacareNow that Trumpcare is all but dead, McConnell will give conservatives their “straight repeal” vote, and then move on to tax and budget legislation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. the national interest
    Trumpcare Collapsed Because the Republican Party Cannot GovernIt was never possible to reconcile public standards for a humane health-care system with conservative ideology.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. Kid Rock’s Demand for Extreme Government Simplicity Is Not So SimpleSometimes government is complicated because life is complicated, and sometimes compromise requires policies that just aren’t so simple.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. the national interest
    Mitch McConnell Now Two Votes Short and Running Out of Time to Pass TrumpcareObamacare repeal is in big, big trouble.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. the national interest
    Senators Figure Out McConnell Is Lying to Them About TrumpcareThis is why he wanted a really fast vote.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. No, Filibusters Aren’t Keeping 50 Republican Senators From Reaching AgreementSean Duffy (like Donald Trump) wants to blame the threat of filibusters for blocking GOP bills. But the big ones aren’t subject to filibusters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. Did the ‘Kodiak Kickback’ Buy Lisa Murkowski’s Vote for Trumpcare?No state has gotten more special treatment from the Senate (and the administration) than Murkowski’s Alaska. If it’s not enough, Trumpcare’s dead.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. the national interest
    Republicans Give Away the Game on TrumpcareTom Price admits that insurance companies will go back to weeding out the sick.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. the national interest
    How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left’s Favorite Insult of LiberalsThe rise and meaning of an ubiquitous term of abuse.
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. politics
    Tom Price on Health-Care Bill: Up Is DownThe Trump administration gets Orwellian in its efforts to repeal Obamacare.
    By Benjamin Hart
  34. russia investigation
    Trump’s Lawyer Falsely Suggests Secret Service to Blame for Don Jr.’s MeetingThe agency wasn’t even protecting the president’s son at the time.
    By Chas Danner
  35. russia investigation
    No, Trump Jr. Doesn’t Have a First Amendment Right to Get Russian InformationThe courts have already been pretty consistent on this issue of foreign citizens not being able to participate in America’s self-government.
    By Cristian Farias
  36. obamacare repeal
    Vote on GOP Health-Care Bill Delayed While McCain Recovers from Sudden SurgeryMcCain is expected to recover, but the same can’t be said for the GOP’s haphazard efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
    By Chas Danner
  37. politics
    Fired FBI Director James Comey Is Writing a BookAnd, yes, he’s going to write about his experience dealing with Trump.
    By Chas Danner
  38. Insurers, Governors Join Ranks of People Who Hate the GOP Health-Care BillAnd yet, it still might pass in the next few days.
    By Benjamin Hart
  39. immigration
    Trump Administration May Expand and Expedite DHS Deportation PowersThe new plan would dramatically expand where and when the government could target immigrants for deportations which bypass immigration courts.
    By Chas Danner
  40. A ‘Spiritual Biography’ of Donald Trump Is in the Works. Seriously.Most of Trump’s Christian right allies don’t bother to take his own slight religious pretensions very seriously. A new book apparently will.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. 780,000 Dreamers in Danger of DeportationTrump may be pushed by a lawsuit to keep his 2016 promise to kill DACA and deport Dreamers — or they could become a pawn for nativists in Congress.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. the national interest
    The Trump Tower Russian Collusion Meeting Gets Way More SuspiciousAt this point it would take a strange coincidence for hacking not to have been discussed.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. How Many Millions Losing Health Coverage Will GOP ‘Moderates’ Find Acceptable?Soon Republican centrists will have to decide if big insurance losses due to Medicaid cuts are okay after all.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. Self-Described ‘Real Indian’ Offers Abrasive Challenge to Elizabeth WarrenRepublicans who dislike Warren have a new champion in Shiva Ayyadurai, a Trump fan whose attacks on Warren as a “fake Indian” are relentless.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. the national interest
    Kellyanne Conway Moves the Russian Collusion Goalposts to Undisclosed LocationOld standard: There was no contact with Russia. New standard: Collusion must be “sustained, systemic, furtive.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. After Trumpcare, Republicans Will Have to Tackle an Even Bigger MessYes, the health-care debacle has stalled budget and tax bills, but Republicans are nowhere close to agreement on the broad outlines of a fiscal plan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. the national interest
    Republicans Confident Senator Dean Heller Will Be ‘Bought Off,’ Pass TrumpcareRepublican statements about policies they can’t support have not meant much so far.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. the national interest
    Republican Who Sought Clinton Emails Did Not Die of Natural CausesPeter W. Smith was found dead with a suicide note shortly after talking to a reporter about his plot to get Russian-hacked Clinton emails.
    By Jonathan Chait
  49. Things Are Looking Up for Democratic Senators in Trump CountrySix Senate Democrats running for reelection in states easily carried by Trump last year are benefitting from strong popularity and GOP fecklessness.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. the national interest
    I Have Found America’s Worst ColumnistEd Rogers: lobbyist, Washington Post columnist, and Trump defender.
    By Jonathan Chait
  51. McConnell’s Two-Faced Approach to Health-Care ReformBy giving conservatives long-term Medicaid cuts and then telling moderates they won’t be implemented, McConnell may be too clever for his own good.
    By Ed Kilgore
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