1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. the national interest
    Senators Figure Out McConnell Is Lying to Them About TrumpcareThis is why he wanted a really fast vote.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. politics
    Tom Price on Health-Care Bill: Up Is DownThe Trump administration gets Orwellian in its efforts to repeal Obamacare.
    By Benjamin Hart
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. the national interest
    I Have Found America’s Worst ColumnistEd Rogers: lobbyist, Washington Post columnist, and Trump defender.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. 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
  30. Mitch McConnell Running Out of Time, Money, and Luck in Effort to Pass TrumpcareHe apparently doesn’t have the funds or flexibility to get to 50 votes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. Evangelical Supporters Pray Over Trump — Who Could Probably Use the HelpA photograph of the event is getting some buzz today.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. the national interest
    Republicans Still Can’t Design a Workable Health-Care PlanThey have till Thursday late morning. No pressure!
    By Jonathan Chait
  33. the national circus
    Watching the Downfall of a Presidency in Real TimeTrump Jr.’s emails may or may not be the “smoking gun.” But what seems clear is that this is only the beginning of what investigators could uncover.
    By Frank Rich
  34. Republican Voters Have Lost Their Enthusiasm for Repealing ObamacareThe belief that the GOP Congress absolutely has to repeal Obamacare or face the wrath of angry base voters is an exaggeration at best.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. the national interest
    Conservatives Confident Trump Is No Longer Lying About RussiaThe most recent fallback position is probably true, right?
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. politics
    Feds Ramp Up Investigation Into Jane SandersSerious problem for Bernie’s 2020 ambitions, or a Trumped-up case?
    By Benjamin Hart
  37. McConnell Scrubs Half the Senate’s August Recess As GOP Scrambles to Save AgendaWill the extra time enable Republicans to come up with a health-care bill 50 senators support? Or deals on taxes and the budget?
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. The ‘Did They Collude’ Debate Is Over. The Only Question Now Is How Much.We’ve gone from evidence of collusion to proof.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. the national interest
    Republican Senator: Trump Is Qualified to Be President Because He’s PresidentThe first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule of Tautology Club.
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. deep state
    The Man Who Made Liberals Newly Enamored of the Deep StateIn their desire to see Trump banished, they’ve embraced some unusual bedfellows, like Benjamin Wittes.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  41. Will Trump Jump Into Alabama’s Crazy Senate Primary?He could tap McConnell’s favorite Luther Strange or Hannity’s favorite Mo Brooks. Theocrat Roy Moore’s in the mix, too.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. the national interest
    Could Donald Trump Have Been Elected As a Democrat?Maybe it’s not a coincidence that he was chosen by the party that almost put Sarah Palin in the White House.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. It’s Looking Bad for Trumpcare, But Expect One More Big PushSo long as CBO gives the revised bill a better “score,” one last chance to repeal Obamacare could be appealing to all of the GOP’s factions.
    By Ed Kilgore
  44. Pence Drains Swamp by Inviting Donors to Vice-President’s ResidenceHe’s been holding dinners for donors and other influential GOP figures at his home on the grounds of the Naval Observatory.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  45. politics
    Steve Bannon Is Out of Trump’s Doghouse and Leading the Charge Against MuellerWhy does the president double-down every time it seems like he should retreat? Because Bannon is still his chief tactician.
    By Joshua Green
  46. the national interest
    Donald Trump Jr.’s ‘Denials’ of Russian Collusion Are Actually ConfessionsWhen “I was hoping to collude with this murderous dictator” is your defense.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. if you can’t beat them
    Trump Wants to Work With Russia to Prevent Future Election MeddlingIt seems more than likely that Trump has just shrugged off Russia’s attack on last year’s presidential election, including to Putin himself.
    By Chas Danner
  48. russia investigation
    Trump Campaign’s Inner Circle Met With Kremlin-Linked LawyerDonald Trump Jr. arranged the previously undisclosed June 2016 meeting, which President Trump’s lawyers are now suggesting was a setup.
    By Chas Danner
  49. g20
    Ivanka Trump Sat in for Her Father Among World Leaders at G20“If she weren’t my daughter it would be so much easier for her,” the president also explained on Saturday.
    By Chas Danner
  50. Mark Penn Mischaracterizes the 1996 Clinton-Gore CampaignAn op-ed co-authored by Clinton strategist Mark Penn tells Democrats to emulate a 1996 strategy the actual candidates did not pursue.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. the national interest
    Why Didn’t Republicans Promise a Conservative Health-Care Plan?There’s a reason politicians never run on real conservative health-care ideas.
    By Jonathan Chait
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