1. hillary watch
    Hillary Clinton Makes Peace With Conservative Squirrel-Suit StalkerAnd survived a Fox News interview.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. the national interest
    Benghazi-Obsessed Conservatives Not Happy With Capture of Benghazi TerroristUnless this Khattala guy flips on Obama.
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. other countries’ embarrassments
    Rob Ford Literally Locked Out of Mayor’s OfficeThe crack mayor is coming home from rehab but his keys don’t work anymore.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  4. early and awkward
    Rick Perry Keeps Oops-ingThe Texas governor continues his 2016 teasing, imperfectly.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  5. the clintons
    Clintons Avoid Estate Taxes Despite Support for Estate Taxes Those loopholes can be pretty irresistible.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  7. benghazi
    Strawberry-Frappe-Sipping Benghazi Suspect Captured in Secret RaidHillary Clinton still at large.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  8. bill de blasio’s new york
    De Blasio Sings ‘I Love L.A.’ on Jimmy KimmelThe mayor lost a Stanley Cup bet.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  9. the national interest
    Best New Republican Climate Ideas Still Pretty BadThe endless perils of trying to be sane in a party of crazy.
    By Jonathan Chait
  10. international intrigue
    Obama Announces About 275 U.S. Troops Are Heading to IraqTo help relocate staff from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  11. stupid things
    Duck Dynasty Relative Running for CongressYeehaw.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  12. drugs
    Cuomo Still Not Sold on Medical Marijuana“I’m not going to be part of a system that’s just going to wreak havoc,” he said.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  13. politics
    Obama Will Ban Gay Job Discrimination by HimselfThe White House is drafting an executive order, since Congress won’t pass ENDA.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  14. mayor for life
    Marion Barry: Cocaine Is a Hell of a Drug“The cocaine was a powerful stimulant that went straight to my penis,” he writes in a new memoir.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  15. jesus christie
    Chris Christie on Bridgegate Scandal: ‘You’ll Get Over It’He assured GOP donors they have nothing to fear.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. politics
    Talking Politics With This Summer’s Crop of Washington InternsCollege students swarm the gridlocked capital for the summer, armed with hope for bipartisanship, personal talking points, and brand-new suits.
    By Nora Caplan-Bricker
  17. early and awkward
    Eric Cantor Says He’ll Vote for David Brat, Whose Name He Won’t SayOr maybe he’ll just forget.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  18. bill de blasio’s new york
    Bill de Blasio’s Plan to Take Brooklyn Progressivism NationalHis bid to bring the 2016 DNC to New York is a signal of his ambitions.
    By Chris Smith
  19. United States Sends Warships Closer to Iraq As ISIS Stalls Outside of BagdadAnd Iran’s president says that he is open to getting involved in the conflict. 
    By Caroline Bankoff
  20. early and awkward
    Republican Senator Fondly Recalls Doing ‘Indecent Things With Animals’Thad Cochran strikes again.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  21. early and awkward
    Republican Says He Hadn’t Heard About CantorHe may have been being sarcastic.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  22. iraq war
    Obama on Iraq: ‘We Can’t Do It for Them’The president said the U.S. will not send ground troops.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  23. the national interest
    Today’s Obamacare Non-Train-Wreck NewsAnother Obamacare failure fails to happen.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. oh new jersey
    Intern Suggests Maybe New Jersey Should Ban BestialityBecause it’s not outlawed there already.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  25. comings and goings
    Kevin McCarthy Is (Probably) the Next House Majority LeaderTaking over for Eric Cantor.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  26. the national interest
    Life in Ohio, a Continuing SeriesBoy meets raft, boy loses raft, boy gets raft back.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. the national interest
    The Republican Health-Care Plan Has Died Along With Eric Cantor He’s still alive, you say? Tell that to his grieving widow.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. bill de blasio’s new york
    Bill de Blasio More Popular Than FerretsThe mayor’s approval rating is up, but the city is mixed on legalizing the animal.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  29. early and often
    Eric Cantor Falling Right Into a ‘Golden Safety Net,’ Says John OliverNo tears for the congressman.
    By Jenna Marotta
  30. the national interest
    Conservatives Don’t Hate the Immigration Deal. They Hate All Deals.A party against legislating.
    By Jonathan Chait
  31. early and awkward
    Rick Perry Thinks Being Gay Is a Lifestyle Choice, Just Like Being an Alcoholic“I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way,” he said. In San Francisco.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  32. cantor fail
    President Obama Shares His Analysis of Eric Cantor’s LossThere was “too little conviction about what was right.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. early and awkward
    The Best and Worst of David Brat’s ‘I Beat Eric Cantor’ Victory LapThe small-town economics professor met the press today.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  34. early and awkward
    Eric Cantor Is Going to ‘Leave the Political Analysis to Y’all’The congressman kept it positive at a news conference after his historic loss.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  35. economists for jesus
    David Brat Just Became the Christian Right’s Favorite EconomistCantor’s ouster could give evangelical America a new intellectual hero.
    By Kevin Roose
  36. the national circus
    Frank Rich on the National Circus: Why Eric Cantor’s Defeat Wasn’t So ShockingOf course he lost! It’s not his party anymore.
    By Frank Rich
  37. early and often
    Post-Cantor: Who Is David Brat? Jack Trammell?All of a sudden it’s a race in Virginia.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  38. the national interest
    Everybody Hates Eric Cantor: A RoundupAn outpouring of contempt.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. Reactions to Eric Cantor’s Stunning Defeat, From Fear to GloatingBoehner made it sound like someone had died.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  40. america!
    Ted Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship, Becomes 50 Percent More AmericanThanks a lot, Canada.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  41. the national interest
    Eric Cantor’s Shocking, Richly Deserved Primary DefeatIn Republican country, Tea Party always finds you.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. primaries
    Eric Cantor Loses to Tea Party Challenger in Huge Primary UpsetTo a tea party–backed college professor.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  43. the national interest
    California Court: Keeping Terrible Teachers Is UnconstitutionalA new front in the education-reform wars.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. early and awkward
    88 Choices in Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices“All of us face hard choices in our lives,” the book begins.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  45. hillary watch
    Hillary Clinton: Benghazi Is ‘More of a Reason to Run’“I take responsibility,” she says, “but I was not making security decisions.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  46. the national interest
    Do Democrats Need Hillary Clinton to Save Them in 2016? [Updated]Meet the new savior, same as the old savior.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. the national interest
    Obama Promised to Do 4 Big Things As President. Now He’s Done Them All.It’s no longer possible to imagine that historians will look back at his presidency and conclude that not much got accomplished.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. early and often
    De Blasio Wants the 2016 DNC to Be in BrooklynJay Z for president?
    By Joe Coscarelli
  49. silicon nation
    What Silicon Valley Doesn’t Get About Government TechFixing infrastructure is risky business.
    By Kevin Roose
  50. just ask chuck schumer
    Schumer Tells Same Breakup Story Over and Over“I said to myself, ‘What a loser you are.’”
    By Caroline Bankoff
  51. 2016
    Is Hillary Clinton Too Dependent on Stuffed Animals to Be President?Can a potential commander-in-chief have a teddy bear?
    By Joe Coscarelli
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