1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  7. 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
  8. Gary Cohn: Only ‘Morons’ Pay the Estate TaxYour populist government at work.
    By Benjamin Hart
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. Antifa Beats Up Trump Supporters, Fuels Right-WingersIt’s a good day for false equivalence.
    By Benjamin Hart
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. politics
    Rex Tillerson Won’t Say If Trump ‘Speaks for American Values’“The president speaks for himself.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. the national interest
    The Obama-Era Deficit Scolds Want Big Tax Cuts NowFix the Debt is now fixin’ to get paid.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. If Trump Keeps Threatening Government Shutdown, Democrats Will Have Some OptionsNow that the president has put a government shutdown squarely on the table, Democrats must decide if they want a deal, or just a Trump defeat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. budgets
    The Republican Budget Fight, Explained in 5 MinutesA primer on how the House’s struggle to pass a 2018 budget could blow up tax reform — and America’s credit rating.
    By Eric Levitz
  34. White House Finds Solution to Transgender Military Ban: Delay, Let Mattis DecideThe reported plan gives Mattis six months to figure out what Trump’s tweets mean for service members — and by then the courts may have weighed in.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. Forgotten Mainline Protestants Challenge Evangelicals to Stand Up to TrumpWhile most conservative evangelical leaders are avid Trump fans or passive enablers, mainline Protestants are urging them to show some independence.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. select all
    Government Workers Are Resigning With Secret Acrostic MessagesIf you look closely, there’s a hidden insult.
    By Brian Feldman
  37. The Rising Tide of Shoddy PollsNew online platforms make it cheaper and easier to conduct polls. Some are just fine, but others could begin to poison the well.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. Trump Needs to Stop Whining About the FilibusterFor all his complaining about the Senate’s 60-vote requirement, Trump passed up the chance to take the issue to GOP voters in Alabama.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Trump’s Rehash of His Charlottesville Remarks Was Deceitful and Self-DestructiveNobody was surprised the president cut loose at a rally in Phoenix. But he showed he can’t drop his losing argument.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. the national interest
    17 Times Mike Pence Said Trump’s Shoulders Prove He’s Good at Foreign PolicyThe vice-president has a different foreign-policy model: simpler, more rugged, with distinct homoerotic overtones.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. The Trump-McConnell Feud Becoming a ‘Cold War’At the worst possible time, relations between the president and the leader of his party in the Senate have become frosty, distant, and even combative.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. Endangered California Republicans Feuding Over IdeologyHaving fallen to a historic low point, California Republicans are still fighting over conservative purity and loyalty to an unpopular president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. Could Trump Hold Dreamers Hostage for Border-Wall Funding?The administration may be forced by the courts to cancel protection for Dreamers. So it could be time for a grand bargain to get border-wall funding.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. the national interest
    Paul Ryan’s Case Against Obamacare Goes From Misleading to Outright FalseHouse Speaker lies his head off on national television, nobody says anything.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. Trump Could Bust Loose Again at Phoenix RallyIt would be natural for the president to follow up on controlled remarks about Afghanistan with an uninhibited base-feeding frenzy the next night.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. politics
    Career Federal Employees Ask ‘What Would Make Me Quit?’“Am I an accomplice to this terrible thing that’s happening?”
    By Nick Tabor
  47. Paul Ryan Says Trump ‘Messed Up’ on Charlottesville, But Refuses to Censure HimHe thinks asking lawmakers to hold Trump accountable would amount to a “partisan hack-fest.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  48. The History of Trump’s Afghanistan PolicyThe History of Trump’s Afghanistan Policy
    By Jared T. Miller
  49. Judge Roy Moore Has Big Lead in First Poll for Alabama Senate RunoffLuther Strange may need all the money and all the Trump love he can get to catch up with Roy Moore, who’s winning over supporters of other candidates.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. the national interest
    That Russian Guy Who Attended The Trump Tower Meeting Is Almost Definitely a SpyA vernacular translation of the New York Times report on Rinat Akhmetshin.
    By Jonathan Chait
  51. It’s Too Early for Democrats to Freak Out Over FundraisingWhile the DNC is struggling to keep up with the RNC in fundraising, other sources of campaign financing are more balanced, and it’s very early yet.
    By Ed Kilgore
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