1. trail mix
    6 Actually Interesting Things You Missed in Monday’s Midterm Races From the Chris Christie–Scott Walker feud to a mysterious attack from beyond the grave.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. politics in the time of ebola
    Chris Christie Is Trying to Fight an Ebola Panic That Doesn’t Really Exist How did the New Jersey governor so badly misread public opinion?
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells
  3. the national interest
    In Gaffe, Hillary Clinton Endorses CommunismWhat about your gaffes?
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. city politic
    Andrew Cuomo and the Politics of an Ebola ScareThe difference in political styles has been on full display.
    By Chris Smith
  5. the national interest
    Watch Ronald Reagan Throw Hilarious Shade at Hungry PeopleThe 50-year anniversary of an epic burn.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. the national interest
    Irving Kristol’s Son Now Opposed to NepotismWilliam Kristol, Horatio Alger of the right.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. the national interest
    Today in ‘Paul Krugman Is Definitely Not Arguing With David Brooks’America’s greatest forum of passive-aggressive intellectual debate.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. trail mix
    5 Actually Interesting Things You Missed in This Weekend’s Midterm Races Catch a sneak preview of Hillary’s “you didn’t build that.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. the national interest
    Mitch McConnell Promises to Restore Love and Trust to the SenateWe should completely trust him.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. early and awkward
    Republican Signing Girl Not What It Looks Like“No pictures on this!” he says before doing it anyway.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  12. politics
    How Well Does the Clinton Brand Still Play in the Conservative South?Tough midterm races for Democrats are testing the brand.
    By Marin Cogan
  13. the national interest
    How Conservatives Justify Poll TaxesAdventures in motivated reasoning.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. trail mix
    6 Actually Interesting Things You Missed in Thursday’s Midterm Races A morning primer for the uninformed and unenthused.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Joe Coscarelli
  15. the national interest
    This Statistic Shows the Republican Demographic Crisis Is Still Getting WorseThe trend just keeps getting worse.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. Republican Governors Just Might Save the Democratic SenateTrouble for incumbents in both parties.
    By Jonathan Chait
  17. early and awkward
    Andrew Cuomo Is Losing the Coveted Sopranos Cast Member Vote“And they call me Big Pussy?” says the man who played Sal Bonpensiero.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  18. early and awkward
    RNC Co-Chair Calls Wisconsin Voters Stupid“Some of them might not be as sharp as a knife.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  19. the national interest
    New York Times Travels to Iowa, Finds Advocate of FeudalismSomebody is standing up to fashionable liberal ideas like the Enlightenment.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. early and awesome
    Obama Brushes Off Jealous Boyfriend With Cool Banter“Mr. President, don’t touch my girlfriend.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  21. state politics
    Georgia’s Battle for the Ballot BoxA successful state voter-registration effort, now being investigated for fraud, has the potential to turn a GOP stronghold into a swing state.
    By Marin Cogan
  22. Republicans Trying to Woo, or at Least Suppress, Minority VoteWe’re trying to keep you from voting, but if you do vote, please choose us.
    By Jonathan Chait
  23. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Why the Future We Imagined in 1964 Was WrongA case study in the flaws of presentism.
    By Frank Rich
  24. the national interest
    Republican John Kasich Just Got Extremely Real on ObamacareApology coming in 3, 2, 1 …
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. the national interest
    Scientists Also Lying About Ebola, Explains George F. WillScientists: Are they right about anything?
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. the city politic
    Andrew Cuomo and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad YearIn an otherwise fruitful governorship.
    By Chris Smith
  27. gross racists
    Racist Libertarian Hero Cliven Bundy Is Back With a Bizarre Campaign Ad For a third-party candidate.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  28. the national interest
    Let’s Argue Some More With Ezra Klein About Liberals and Due ProcessIt’s Friday, so time for some light banter.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. the national interest
    Amity Shlaes: If Being Wrong About the Economy Is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be RightSomebody needed to get the situation completely backwards and that somebody was me.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. the national interest
    Rep. Don Young’s Spokesman Doesn’t Deny Don Young Killed a GuyDept. of Suspicious Demurrals.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. the national interest
    Republican Joni Ernst Admits Why Republicans Really Hate ObamacareAnother secret recording.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. midterm madness
    Florida Gubernatorial Debate Delayed Due to FanIn one of the weirdest and most Floridian moments in debate history.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. early and awkward
    Bishop Asks Voters to Write In Dead CatholicsAs always, it’s about abortion.
    By Katie Zavadski
  34. islamic state watch
    U.S. Settles for ‘Kind of Bleh’ Name in Ongoing Operation Against ISISInherent Resolve, which had already been rejected by the Pentagon.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  35. the national interest
    Debt Scolds Sorry-Not-Sorry for Making the Recession WorseHistorical revisionism time.
    By Jonathan Chait
  36. the national interest
    Paul Ryan: Yes, I Am a NutGlad you asked.
    By Jonathan Chait
  37. early and often
    Grimes-McConnell Debate Not Quite a Game-ChangerThe Democratic challenger got a bit looser, but ultimately stuck to her script.
    By Chris Smith
  38. Liberals Get Illiberal on Campus Rape [Updated]You’re either for us or you’re for the rapists.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. politics
    Both Democrats and Republicans Are Trying to Politicize EbolaThough it’s not clear either side is at fault.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. the national interest
    Obama Environmental Plan Tainted by Association With EnvironmentalistsA modern Washington scandal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. kids today
    Memo to the White House: Here’s How You Use Emoji :smile:
    By Katie Zavadski and Jessica Roy
  42. the national circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: The GOP’s Inane Attack on ‘President Ebola’Conservatives are stoking Ebola hysteria for pure political gain.
    By Frank Rich
  43. the national interest
    Football and Moral Panic, a Case StudyARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL in-depth statistical disputes?
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. kids today
    White House Knows Kids Hate Words, Plans Emoji-Based Campaign Discussing “capped [graduation hat] loan payments” is all the rage with millennials.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  45. scandals
    White House Accused of Colombia Scandal Cover-UpThough members of the Secret Service and military were fired for the same behavior.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  46. the national interest
    Debt Scolds: Pay No Attention to the Falling Deficit!Extremely wrong people with extremely short memories.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. equal rites
    Gay Marriage Blocked, Just for the Moment, in Idaho and NevadaJustice Anthony Kennedy granted a temporary stay at the last minute.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  48. equal rites
    New Gay-Marriage Decision Has a Perfect FootnoteOn sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  49. the national interest
    Washington Bipartisanship Nostalgia Is EternalThe centrist fantasy that facts cannot kill.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. ebola
    Obama Says U.S. Will Beef Up Airport Ebola ScreeningsBut there won’t be a flight ban.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  51. the national interest
    Why Rush Limbaugh Can’t Stop Talking About SlaveryHe’s like Ta-Nehisi Coates, except right wing instead of left wing, and really dumb instead of really smart.
    By Jonathan Chait
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