1. 2020 census
    Leaked Census Document Warns of ‘Serious Errors’ Due to Shortened TimelineThe Trump administration’s most effective attempt to undermine the census is also its simplest.
    By Matt Stieb
  2. doj
    Trump Wants to Cut Federal Funding to ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions’ Including NYCThe president’s threat to defund Democratic cities if they defund the police is extremely unlikely to hold up in the courts.
    By Matt Stieb
  3. voting by mail
    Trump Asks Americans to Defend Against Voter Fraud by Committing Voter FraudThe president advised people to test North Carolina’s mail-in system by voting in person then casting an absentee ballot, which is illegal.
    By Matt Stieb
  4. kennedy dynasty
    The Fall of the Kennedy Dynasty Took More Than Just One NightJoseph Kennedy III’s loss to Ed Markey was just the latest in a long series of setbacks for the storied political family.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. vision 2020
    Election Day Is About to BeginTen states begin sending out mail ballots in September and seven hold in-person early voting the same month.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. vision 2020
    Polls Reveal the Conventions to Be Enormous Wastes of Time and EffortThe basic shape of the race hasn’t changed after the conventions, though a poll from Pennsylvania is good news for Trump
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. coronavirus stimulus
    McConnell’s ‘Skinny Stimulus’ Won’t Help Anyone But Republican SenatorsIn a symbolic measure designed to give the troops something to vote for, the Republican proposal is not intended to go anywhere after the Senate vote.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. politics
    Joni Ernst Implies That Doctors Are Inflating Coronavirus Deaths for CashLook, she’s just asking questions.
    By Benjamin Hart
  10. massachusetts
    Ed Markey Wins MA Senate Primary Over Joe KennedyThe progressive Democratic incumbent defeated his challenger, making Joe Kennedy the first person in his family to lose a primary in Massachusetts.
    By Matt Stieb
  11. coronavirus
    CDC Issues Eviction Moratorium Until Year’s EndIn a surprise move of sweeping scope, upwards of 40 million renters will be temporarily protected from evictions, though not from liability for rent.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. world health organization
    Trump Admin Won’t Join International Vaccine Effort Because WHO Is InvolvedThe White House continues to make major pandemic decisions against its own interests based on the president’s personal grievances.
    By Matt Stieb
  13. vision 2020
    Can Florida Save Us From a Contested Presidential Election?The Sunshine State is expected to report quickly on Election Night, and if Biden has won it, the odds of Trump credibly claiming victory go down.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. the national interest
    Totally Real Source Reveals How Trump Discovered the Planeload of Looters“In the plane, it was almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms.” It’s all true!
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. vision 2020
    An Election Night ‘Red Mirage’ Is a Nightmare for DemocratsEvidence grows that thanks to big partisan splits in voting methods, Trump may have an Election Night lead even if mail ballots doom him to defeat.
    By Ed Kilgore
  16. coronavirus stimulus
    Mark Meadows Has Been a Game Changer in Stimulus Talks, and Not in a Good WayAs Mnuchin’s “chaperone” and a world-class deal-breaker, the White House chief of staff may be the fly in the ointment.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. the national interest
    Trump’s Reelection Campaign Is Corrupting the Entire Federal GovernmentFive recent stories all suggest the same giant scandal.
    By Jonathan Chait
  18. police brutality
    In Bizarre Interview, Trump Says Biden Is Controlled by People in ‘Dark Shadows’Trump’s description of left-wing forces supposedly terrorizing the U.S. was so odd that Laura Ingraham noted, “That sounds like a conspiracy theory.“
    By Matt Stieb and Margaret Hartmann
  19. just asking questions
    What’s the Matter With Populism? Nothing.Historian Thomas Frank wants to reclaim real American populism from both liberal detractors and conservative pretenders.
    By Park MacDougald
  20. white house
    Trump Announces Federal Investigation of ‘Left-Wing Civil Unrest’Trump continued to make false comparisons between far-left and far-right agitators and defended his supporters who shot demonstrators with paintballs.
    By Matt Stieb
  21. kenosha
    Trump Defends Suspected Kenosha Shooter Kyle RittenhouseTrump’s leap to defend Rittenhouse is either pathological or a deadly message he wants to sent to future would-be racial-justice protesters.
    By Ed Kilgore
  22. voting by mail
    What’s the Deadline for Mail-In Ballots?With an expected pandemic-induced spike in mail-in ballots, the stakes are unusually high for election-rules litigation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. kenosha
    Trump Is an Arsonist Masquerading As a FirefighterTrump makes matters worse when he imposes himself on cities wracked by unrest. That’s why he’s going to Kenosha.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  24. vision 2020
    Presidential Battleground States Change All the TimeOhio, Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia are recent battlegrounds that are no longer very competitive, while Florida and Wisconsin remain critical in 2020.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. the national interest
    Trump Claims Antifa Head Joe Biden is Blackmailing AmericaThe plot is sitting right under our noses.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. the national interest
    How Trump Brought Nazis Into Republican PoliticsTrump may not be Hitler, but he is close enough for Hitler fans.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. coronavirus
    Trump’s New Coronavirus Adviser Wants to Copy Sweden ApproachThe American approach has been no great shakes, but aiming for “herd immunity” would likely result in a far greater catastrophe.
    By Benjamin Hart
  28. modest proposals
    The Case for Adding 672 Million More AmericansA population of a billion would (maybe?) solve all the country’s problems.
    By Matthew Yglesias
  29. white house
    Trump Reportedly Offered John Kelly FBI Director Job If He Pledged LoyaltyA new book details how Trump tried to get John Kelly to swear personal allegiance to him, and how the DOJ limited the scope of the Mueller inquiry.
    By Matt Stieb
  30. politics
    NYC Tenants in RNC Video Say They Were Tricked“I am not a Trump supporter,” insisted one of the three tenants who claim they were misled about the purpose of their interviews.
    By Chas Danner
  31. vision 2020
    Why Trump Could Have an Election Night Lead in Blue StatesWhether or not Trump clams victory based on convincing his supporters to vote on Election Day rather than by mail, the early returns may look weird.
    By Ed Kilgore
  32. the national circus
    Frank Rich: Trump Thinks Racism Is His Best ChanceTrailing in the polls, he used the Republican National Convention to ratchet his violence-encouraging rhetoric to an even more dangerous level.
    By Frank Rich
  33. republican national convention
    The RNC Treated Blue America Like Occupied TerritoryRepublicans claimed federal grounds as their partisan property, then spoke of Democratic cities as though they were hostile foreign countries.
    By Eric Levitz
  34. politics
    Rand Paul Says Washington Police Saved Him From BLM ‘Mob’Video shows protesters surrounding the senator, who did not appear to be in serious danger.
    By Benjamin Hart
  35. massachusetts
    How Markey and Kennedy Are Closing Out Their Brutal Primary‘Family fights are the most vicious fights’: inside the ugly final days of the year’s most contentious Senate primary race.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  36. jacob blake
    How the Police Radicalized the ‘NBA Bubble’Our policing culture is so brutal that NBA stars were driven to break their labor contract and buck expectations that success would buy their silence.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  37. vision 2020
    The Big Liar Ends the RNC With Big Lies About Himself and BidenTrump ended the convention as it began — with efforts to salvage his record, make out Biden as a radical, frighten suburbanites, and ignore COVID-19.
    By Ed Kilgore
  38. republican national convention
    RNC Warns That If Biden Wins, Things Will Be As Bad As They Are NowThe RNC argued that the “continuous riots” unfolding in America’s cities today give “a good view of the future under Biden.”
    By Eric Levitz
  39. the national interest
    In 2016, Trump Promised to Make America Safe Again. He Failed.Does Trump actually care about rising violence? Or does he like it?
    By Jonathan Chait
  40. rnc
    Republican National Convention, Day Four: Live UpdatesFollow along for the key moments from the final night of the 2020 conventions.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  41. the national interest
    Probable Criminal Rudy Giuliani Gives Anti-Crime SpeechThe president’s lawyer is in a whole lot of legal trouble.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. vision 2020
    If Trump Was Really Worried About Mail-Ballot Security, He’d Try to Fund ItTrump complains about overwhelmed and insecure election systems. Why won’t he accept Democratic proposals to spend some money to address them?
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. republican national convention
    Republican Convention Schedule: Who’s Speaking and How to WatchTom Cotton, Mitch McConnell, and Rudy Giuliani are set to speak on Thursday night ahead of President Trump’s acceptance speech.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Chas Danner
  44. coronavirus stimulus
    Republicans Abandon Stimulus Checks As Talks Slip to End of Fiscal YearThe effort to provide badly needed COVID-19 relief and stimulus just got delayed and complicated once again as Republicans refuse to budge.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. the national interest
    White House: Reporters Can’t Even Ask How Much Taxpayer Money Trump Is PocketingWhite House: “The Washington Post is blatantly interfering with the business relationships of the Trump Organization.” What?
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. federal reserve
    In Historic Move, Fed Will No Longer Kill Jobs to Fight Phantom InflationFor decades, the central bank has deliberately slowed growth whenever unemployment got “too low.” Jerome Powell says that era is over.
    By Eric Levitz
  47. power
    The Progressive New Face of ‘Boys Will Be Boys’Aaron Coleman won a primary at age 19. He committed revenge porn at age 12. Some progressives think we owe him a second chance — but has he earned it?
    By Sarah Jones
  48. republican national convention
    Pence Warns That America Won’t Be America Without TrumpEven the president hasn’t yet made such a sweeping boast tying himself to the essence of the nation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. rnc
    Republican National Convention, Day Three: Key Moments“We will make America great again. Again.”
    By Intelligencer Staff
  50. the national interest
    Biden Condemns Both Racism and Violence Because He Isn’t CrazyDenouncing both evil and an immoral, ineffective response to evil: not that hard!
    By Jonathan Chait
  51. republican national convention
    On Night Two, the RNC Went on Offense Against Objective RealityOn Tuesday night, Republicans paired bald-faced lies with indictments of every entity that could hold them accountable to the truth.
    By Eric Levitz
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