1. that happened
    The Time Trump Got a Biblical Citation Very WrongWhen it comes to matters of faith, the Toddler President is at best a “baby Christian,” despite his avid Evangelical following.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. coronavirus vaccine
    Pharmacists May Have Figured Out How to Get More Vaccine With One Simple TrickVials contain more vaccine than expected, pharmacists have told the FDA — enough to potentially increase the Pfizer stockpile by up to 40 percent.
    By Matt Stieb
  3. left coast
    California Is Coming Apart Over COVIDThe first state to lock down during the pandemic is a mess now. What went wrong?
    By Miranda Green
  4. make showers great again
    Trump Has Finally Achieved His Policy Dream: Harder ShowersThe administration rolled back regulations on showerheads, meaning the president will no longer have to worry about water “very quietly dripping out.”
    By Matt Stieb
  5. the national interest
    Report: Trump Floated Not Leaving White House on January 20Squatting is not a workable path to authoritarianism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. democratic party
    AOC Is Right About Pelosi and SchumerThe left-wing Democrat and her moderate colleagues find a rare point of agreement: Their leaders have been around too long.
    By Sarah Jones
  8. housing
    The Eco-Yogi Slumlords Are Getting Sued — AgainThe city says they made $1.4 million on their illegal Airbnb rentals over four years.
    By Bridget Read
  9. 2021
    It Sucks to Be Kelly LoefflerGeorgia’s governor made her senator. Now Trump is demanding she stab him in the back.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. post-presidency
    Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Neighbors Want Him to Retire Somewhere Else: ReportThe president’s Palm Beach neighbors reminded him that he can’t technically live at the “winter White House” due to an agreement he made in 1993.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. politics
    Betsy DeVos Tells Education Department Staff to ‘Resist’ Biden: ReportHer comment suggests career officials were fully onboard with her agenda of budget cuts and privatization.
    By Matt Stieb
  12. vision 2020
    Wisconsin Supreme Court Was One Vote Away From Flipping the State to TrumpIf not for a progressive justice’s upset win earlier this year, the decision could have gone the other way, costing Biden ten electoral votes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. vision 2020
    McConnell Finally Acknowledges Biden As President-electIt’s taken a long time, but the dam has broken, with Republican senators undermining any last-minute rebellion against the results in January.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. autopsy report
    Republicans Need a Postmortem, But Trump Won’t Even Admit He’s DeadIf Republicans really won by a landslide, why should they change anything at all?
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. the national interest
    William Barr Was Donald Trump, But With a BrainThe departing attorney general could never be quite corrupt enough to suit his boss.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. vision 2020
    Electoral College Rejects Trump Coup and Confirms Biden as PresidentIt’s a routine process, but threats of violence and plans by Trump’s campaign to “elect” bogus alternative electors are raising eyebrows.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. covid-19
    Everyone Diagnosed With COVID in Post-Election White House OutbreakThe director of White House security reportedly lost his foot in his fight against the virus.
    By Charlotte Klein
  18. power
    Andrew Cuomo Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former StafferA former aide has accused the New York governor of sexually harassing her “for years.” A rep for Cuomo denies the claims.
    By Claire Lampen
  19. politics
    ‘GOP Lawmakers Are Scared’: Republican Insiders Vent About ‘Stop the Steal’Party operatives sound off by text on Trump and his loyalists’ desperate legal antics.
    By Ben Jacobs
  20. the national interest
    William Barr Pressured the FBI to Launder Rudy’s Campaign DirtTrump’s laptop caper remains as ridiculous as ever.
    By Jonathan Chait
  21. coronavirus stimulus
    A Major Obstacle to COVID Stimulus Just FellBipartisan negotiators have split the package’s two most divisive provisions from the rest of the bill.
    By Eric Levitz
  22. democratic party
    Democrats Have a Problem. ‘Workers, Wages, Weed’ May Be the Answer.The party needs a clear national brand with strong appeal to non-college-educated voters.
    By Eric Levitz
  23. congress
    Congress and Trump Will Keep Bickering Through the HolidaysEndless wrangling over spending and stimulus and a likely Trump veto of a defense-policy bill are casting a pall over a holiday-decorated Capitol.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. the national interest
    Only a Democratic Senate Can Produce a Moderate Biden PresidencyRepublican moderates are powerless under McConnell.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. politics
    Rudy Giuliani Secretly Got Justice Department to Open Another Hunter Biden ProbeAttorney General William Barr ordered a federal prosecutor to take Rudy’s dirt from Ukraine. The FBI pushed back.
    By Chas Danner
  26. vision 2020
    Supreme Court Drop-Kicks Texas Lawsuit to Overturn the Election for TrumpA legal effort to keep Trump in power attracted huge Republican support. But the president’s favorite justices wouldn’t even hear it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  27. contested election
    More Than Half of House Republicans Sign On to Trump’s Election CoupSupport for the president’s effort to steal the election from Joe Biden is growing.
    By Matt Stieb
  28. politics
    Why Is Mitch McConnell So Obsessed With Liability Shields?It’s one of the main reasons he’s holding up a second stimulus package to fight the pandemic.
    By Sarah Jones
  29. politics
    Are Republicans Chilling Out on Legal Weed?Five members of the House GOP voted to decriminalize marijuana.
    By Eve Peyser
  30. the economy
    GOP Admits That Handing Out Free Money Creates Jobs“By sending out checks, we’re putting money into the economy for people,” Steve Mnuchin said Wednesday, “which will have the impact of creating jobs.”
    By Eric Levitz
  31. the national interest
    How Michael Anton’s ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay Defined the Trump EraRepublicans handed the country to an unfit man knowing he could crash.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. biden administration
    Biden Team Flubs FDA Advisory Panel’s Vaccine AnnouncementThe Pfizer vaccine is now a step away from approval, contrary to the Biden team announcement that the FDA authorized the candidate for emergency use.
    By Matt Stieb
  33. covid-19
    Trump Holiday Parties Celebrate Season by Denying RealitySpreading Christmas cheer, election denialism, and potentially the coronavirus.
    By Charlotte Klein
  34. contested election
    Every Republican in Congress May Have to Vote on Trump’s CoupDie-hard supporters of the president may force a January vote to overturn Biden’s Electoral College majority.
    By Ed Kilgore
  35. biden cabinet
    Biden’s Cabinet Picks Are Getting WeirdWith Susan Rice’s nomination to the Domestic Policy Council, it’s starting to feel like Biden is just having ex-colleagues draw jobs out of a hat.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. conservatism
    Trump Is Growing the GOP’s ‘Anti-Rule of Law’ WingGOP lawmakers are trying to nullify the 2020 election, while activists intimidate officials with threats of violence and far-right cops break the law.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. coronavirus news
    U.S. Surpasses 3,000 COVID Deaths in a Day for the First TimeThe extraordinary death count is an all-time high. It’s also the first time that daily deaths surpassed the number of Americans killed on 9/11.
    By Matt Stieb
  38. huh
    Melania’s White House Memoir May Be a Coffee-Table BookWhich admittedly feels more aligned with her brand than an intimate autobiography would.
    By Claire Lampen
  39. vision 2020
    Ted Cruz Offers to Argue Insane Texas Election Lawsuit at the Supreme CourtTexas is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election results of four other states.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. coronavirus
    A Quarter of NYC’s COVID Fatalities Come From Staten IslandThe borough, which only makes up 5 percent of the city’s population, now accounts for a quarter of all COVID deaths in New York City.
    By Charlotte Klein
  41. u.s. house of representatives
    Democratic House Majority May Drop to Two Seats in JanuaryAfter November’s poor showing and then Biden’s choice of two House Democrats for jobs in his administration, Nancy Pelosi has no margin for error.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. the national interest
    President of the United States Demands to ‘Overturn’ ElectionThe banana-republic rhetoric ratchets up another notch.
    By Jonathan Chait
  43. intelligencer chats
    The Mood in the White House During Trump’s Frenzied Final DaysAs the president rage-tweets about the election, staffers are moving on — but still fighting with one another.
    By Benjamin Hart and Olivia Nuzzi
  44. donald trump
    House Overwhelmingly Passes Defense Bill Over Trump’s ObjectionsIt looks like Trump will end his relationship with Congress by vetoing a must-pass bill and then being rebuked by many in his own party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. in conversation
    In Conversation With Barack ObamaThe former president on his advice for Biden, his critics on the left, and what he has learned about the GOP.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. conservatism
    Why the Right’s Principled Populists Will LoseThe vanguard of “pro-worker conservatism” has a clear-eyed view of the Trump era’s lessons — but little hope of making the GOP learn them.
    By Eric Levitz
  47. hunter biden
    Investigations Into Hunter Biden Reportedly Go Beyond TaxesFeds are reportedly investigating a potential failure to report income from deals in China, creating the grounds for a crisis for the incoming AG.
    By Matt Stieb
  48. labor
    Nevada Sex Workers Are Getting Stiffed by Brothels, the Government — and COVIDBarred from both working and receiving unemployment benefits, sex workers are struggling to survive the inequality of the socially distanced economy.
    By Eve Peyser
  49. 2020 election
    Trump’s Legal Team Now Sidelined by Failure and COVID-19Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis have tested positive in the past week, adding another barrier to the task of proving nonexistent election fraud.
    By Matt Stieb
  50. covid-19
    Hospitalized Giuliani Says His COVID-19 Symptoms Are ‘Pretty Much’ GoneThe 76-year-old Trump lawyer said he thinks he’ll be released from the hospital soon.
    By Chas Danner
  51. contested election
    Lindsey Graham Predicts Trump Will Become a ‘Shadow President’If Republicans aren’t careful, they’re going to inherit something much worse than a Trump comeback: an ex-president who won’t go away.
    By Ed Kilgore
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