1. mayoral race 2017
    Mayor de Blasio Easily Wins Low-Turnout Democratic PrimaryOnly 14 percent of the city’s registered Democrats showed up to vote.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. Congress Passes Anti-White-Supremacy Resolution, Unclear If Trump Will SignIt’s a far cry from the calls to censure Trump over Charlottesville, but the White House hasn’t said whether the president will support the measure.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  3. The Republican Plan to Use the Steele Dossier to Attack James ComeyThey want to tie him to the “fake” dossier. But what if they wind up proving it’s not fake?
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. Kushner Keeps Winning Interpersonal Feuds, But Not Policy FightsHis latest victory: Trump apparently sided with Kushner when his own lawyers argued that his son-in-law should resign.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. Christie and Bannon Can’t Agree on Whose Trump Team Ouster Was More HumiliatingAfter Bannon claimed he put Christie in his “little black book,” the New Jersey governor said Bannon is just milking his “last 15 minutes of fame.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  7. Report: Mitt Romney Considering Senate Run in UtahIf Orrin Hatch retires, he’d have a good shot of winning.
    By Benjamin Hart
  8. Trump’s Band of Merry Voter-Fraud Charlatans to Ride AgainThey’re not going to let facts get in the way.
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. Trump’s Impulsiveness Has Again Been Mistaken for Something DeeperWhat we’re seeing is not political independence.
    By Benjamin Hart
  10. the national interest
    Bannon: Trump Sucks Up to Putin So He Can Help the Inner CitiesThe least plausible explanation yet of Trump’s suspicious Russophilia.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. Jeff Sessions Wanted to Use Polygraph to Find White House Leakers: ReportHe’s talked about having everyone on the National Security Council take the test.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. Steve Bannon Thinks Civil War in GOP Is a Mistake … Unless He’s Running ItOn 60 Minutes, he said a 2018 fight over immigration reform would be “unwise,” then declared war on Establishment Republicans.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. the national interest
    The Only Problem in American Politics Is the Republican PartyNo system could withstand a stress test like a major party captured by a faction as radical as the conservative movement.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. McCain Says He’s Fighting ‘Virulent’ Form of Cancer“Every life has to end one way or another.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  15. Mueller to Interview 6 of President Trump’s AidesThe investigator reportedly wants to talk to Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Hope Hicks, and others.
    By Benjamin Hart
  16. climate change
    Will Irma Finally Change the Way We Talk About Climate?This summer’s outbreak of extreme weather should force everyone to see climate change for what it is and what it does.
    By David Wallace-Wells
  17. the national interest
    5 Reasons Why a Dreamer Bill Could Really HappenCould Trump’s one legislative achievement be a bill to help immigrants?
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. the national interest
    Trump Wants to Eliminate the Debt Ceiling. He’s Right.Naturally, Paul Ryan wants to stop his one good idea.
    By Jonathan Chait
  19. the national interest
    No, Donald Trump Is Not a Moderate NowTrump deals with Democrats one time, on a small thing, and everybody freaks out.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. Will the Economy Save Trump and His Party?So much of this presidency is a mess that the idea of him or the GOP making a comeback seems far-fetched. But then there’s the economy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. When Trump’s Aides Admit He Has No Idea What He’s Talking AboutDon’t sweat the small stuff.
    By Benjamin Hart
  22. the national interest
    House Conservatives Angry at Trump’s Debt-Ceiling Deal, Threaten Paul RyanThe complete version of the story makes even less sense than the headline.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national interest
    Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the DataThe New York Times concludes that America’s worst charter system is … actually not that bad.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. art of the deal
    Democrat Heitkamp Says She’s Open to Trump Tax Plan, Gets Air Force One RideShe hasn’t committed to anything, but the North Dakota senator has probably avoided an attack from the president.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. Trump Promises to ‘Revisit’ DACA in 6 Months, Though That Isn’t Really PossibleHe suggested that if Congress fails to act, he’ll extend the program himself, though his administration spent the day arguing that that’s illegal.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  26. Obama Speaks Out on DACA: ‘To Target These Young People Is Wrong’It was a rare rebuke from the former president.
    By Benjamin Hart
  27. the national interest
    Trump’s Immigration Plan Is Obamacare Repeal All OverAn incoherent president can’t decide which promise to break, tries to get Congress to figure it out for him.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. Amid Rising Tensions, Trump Announces New Weapon Sales to South KoreaSouth Korea is adoping a more offensive posture to match its neighbor’s.
    By Benjamin Hart
  29. immigration
    Trump Asks for a ‘Way Out’ on DACA, Aides Offer a Sloppy DodgeIt seems they decided not to tell him the states’ September 5 deadline is irrelevant.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  30. McConnell Responds to Trump’s Phone Banter by Literally Going Silent: Report“Mitch? Are you there?”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Haley: North Korea ‘Begging for War’But she’s still looking for a diplomatic solution.
    By Benjamin Hart
  34. Reports: Trump to End DACA With 6-Month DelayIt’s likely up to Congress to save the program now.
    By Benjamin Hart
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. Reports: Trump Drafted Angry, Unsent Letter to Comey Before FiringNot surprisingly, it was about Russia.
    By Benjamin Hart
  41. 2018 Will Be the Year That Trump Truly Becomes PresidentHe’s finally going to unite the country. Really.
    By Benjamin Hart
  42. 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
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. 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
  47. 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
  48. 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
  49. 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
  50. 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
  51. 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
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