1. coronavirus
    California Is Reckoning With Its Huge Budget DeficitsGavin Newsom is not engaging in any happy talk about quick economic recovery. And so his state’s fiscal picture looks dark as revenues collapse.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. the national circus
    Frank Rich: MAGA vs. COVIDCoronavirus is hitting Trump country hard. The president doesn’t care.
    By Frank Rich
  3. the national interest
    White House: CDC Coronavirus Guidelines ‘Would Never See the Light of Day’The administration buries its public-health advisers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  4. supreme court
    Supreme Court Reverses Convictions of Bridgegate SchemersThe payback traffic jam that wound up obstructing Chris Christie’s path to the White House was bad, but not a federal crime.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. president trump
    Trump’s War on U.S. Institutions Reaches the Postal ServiceTrump has long pressured the Postal Service to charge Amazon more. With a loyalist as postmaster general, his wish may soon become a reality.
    By Matt Stieb
  7. reply guys
    Steve Mnuchin Came for Axl Rose on Twitter, Mixed Up the U.S. and Liberian FlagYes, the American and Liberian flags are quite similar, but … come on.
    By Chris Murphy
  8. 2020 elections
    Six Months From the Election, Pelosi’s Gavel Seems SecureWith limited presidential momentum, a deficit in open seats, and a gap in the generic ballot, Republicans won’t take the House until at least 2022.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. vision 2020
    Unlike Democrats, Republicans Have Politically Weaponized Judicial AppointmentsOf course Mitch McConnell reconvened the Senate in a pandemic to confirm child-judge Justin Walker. The judiciary is his and Trump’s top priority.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. the national interest
    Trump Is About to Go Full Coronavirus Death DenierAxios reports that President Trump is expected “to begin publicly questioning the death toll.”
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. the economy
    Meatpacking Crisis Shows Limits of Human Sacrifice As Recovery PlanTrump ordered plants to put maintaining the meat supply above keeping workers safe. But without better public-health policies, they can’t do either.
    By Eric Levitz
  12. vision 2020
    Have ‘Never Trumpers’ Become a Democratic Faction?Like the neoconservatives of the 1980s, the Never Trumpers represent a small but significant migration from one party to the other.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. the national interest
    Trump: I Was Unable to Restock PPE for 3 Years Due to HoaxesThe Trump hoax-distraction timeline has been extended all the way back to 2017.
    By Jonathan Chait
  14. coronavirus
    The Coming COVID-19 Higher-Ed DisasterPublic colleges and universities became a lot less “public” after the Great Recession. The coronavirus crisis could make it all a lot worse.
    By Ed Kilgore
  15. vision 2020
    New York’s Democratic Presidential Primary Is Back OnA federal judge ruled that Cuomo’s decision to cancel the June 23 presidential primary violated the First and 14th Amendment rights of the candidates.
    By Matt Stieb
  16. coronavirus stimulus
    Republican-Run States Are Hurting For Money, TooTrump’s claims that only Democratic states need federal assistance are undermining his own party’s stimulus efforts.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. venezuela
    The Dumbest Aspects of the Apparent Mercenary Coup Attempt in VenezuelaAmerican mercenaries posted online about their alleged coup, and may have brought Airsoft guns in their apparent effort to topple Nicolás Maduro.
    By Matt Stieb
  18. 2020 elections
    The Senate Map Is Beginning to Look Pale BlueIt won’t be easy for Democrats to retake the upper chamber, but it’s looking slightly better for them every day.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. the national interest
    Trump’s Plan to Solve Coronavirus Crisis Is to Give Rich People Another Tax CutThe Republicans’ solution for everything turns out to solve pandemics, too.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. health care
    America’s Health-Care System Has Never Been Sicker — or Harder to CureThe coronavirus is exposing everything broken in the American health-care system — and the reasons why we probably won’t fix any of it.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. the national interest
    It Would Be Completely Absurd to Force Biden Out of the RaceYes, there are influential people arguing for this.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. coronavirus
    Even During a Pandemic, the NYPD Is Still the NYPDThe novel coronavirus hasn’t changed its basic nature.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  23. vision 2020
    The State of the Presidential Race, Six Months Before Election DayRecent presidential elections show the eventual winner ahead at this point, except for Trump himself in 2016.
    By Ed Kilgore
  24. vision 2020
    Why Kavanaugh Is the Focus of Republican Attacks on BidenThe GOP would prefer to compare Biden to Kavanaugh, a party-unifying figure, rather than Trump himself, accused of far more misconduct.
    By Ed Kilgore
  25. vision 2020
    Let’s Finally Get Rid of Party ConventionsWith nothing to deliberate, and possibly no safe place to gather, both parties should consider bagging the whole empty ritual at last.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. the national interest
    Trump Used the Coronavirus to Extort Governors Like Ukraine. It Worked.Trump just wanted a favor, though. He got it.
    By Jonathan Chait
  27. coronavirus stimulus
    On Next Stimulus, Democrats Should Give Up a Lot to Get a LotTrump wants infrastructure and a payroll tax cut. GOP deficit hawks don’t. Democrats should offer to give him what they won’t.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. vision 2020
    Could Trump Go the Way of Herbert Hoover?“The Great Humanitarian” was remembered as feckless and cruel. Can the feckless and cruel Trump fare better in a national catastrophe?
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. the national interest
    Trump Got Dow 36,000 Author to Forecast the Coronavirus. It Didn’t Go Well.Why did Trump keep citing impossibly low death totals? Kevin Hassett, who is neither a public-health expert nor a good economist, made a model.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. politics
    Is the Future of Congress on Zoom?In the midst of the pandemic, a staid institution debates how much technological change is too much.
    By Ben Jacobs
  31. the national interest
    The Secret to Making Liberal Argument Sound Dumb: Pretending Trump Doesn’t ExistRich Lowry’s critique of the liberal defense of science is a perfect specimen of anti-anti-Trumpism.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. vision 2020
    Can Democrats Force Joe Biden Off of the Ticket?With Tara Reade’s allegations now front and center, Biden skeptics are speculating about pushing him out of the nomination, but it wouldn’t be easy.
    By Ed Kilgore
  33. gun control
    Canada Bans Assault WeaponsIn a popular measure after a recent gun massacre in Nova Scotia, Canada’s Liberal Party moved quickly, using emergency powers.
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. labor
    GOP’s Coronavirus Stimulus Priority: Make Workers Poorer, Less SafeRepublicans are fighting to cut unemployment benefits and let employers flout workplace safety standards.
    By Eric Levitz
  35. vision 2020
    Georgia Is Looking Like Trouble for Republicans in NovemberNeither Trump nor Brian Kemp is getting rave reviews for handling COVID-19, and the Loeffler-Collins grudge match is dividing the GOP.
    By Ed Kilgore
  36. tara reade
    Tara Reade Is Making It Harder to Hide Joe BidenThat doesn’t mean his campaign will abandon its most effective strategy.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  37. joe biden
    Joe Biden on Tara Reade Allegation: ‘This Never Happened’The presumptive Democratic nominee dodged questions about opening up his University of Delaware archives to search for a complaint from his accuser.
    By Benjamin Hart
  38. vision 2020
    Republicans Demand Cash-Strapped States Pony Up for Election NeedsA little-known coronavirus stimulus provision requires that states match 20 percent of election assistance funds at a time of fiscal catastrophe.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. vision 2020
    Poll: All 50 Governors Handling Coronavirus Better Than TrumpSome governors aren’t faring all that well with their citizens in COVID-19 management, but they’re all assessed more favorably than POTUS.
    By Ed Kilgore
  40. vision 2020
    Will Candidates on Biden’s VP Shortlist Defend Him From Reade Allegations?Tara Reade’s allegations are going to get the public attention they warrant. Biden’s veep prospects may be competing for the role of chief defender.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. the national interest
    Trump Thinks He Can Make China Pay for the Virus Like Mexico Paid for the WallTrump officials are pressuring U.S. intelligence to support their theory that COVID-19 came from a lab.
    By Jonathan Chait
  42. vision 2020
    Trump Blasts ‘Fake Polling’ (Unless It Makes Him Look Good)You have to wonder if the president is attacking adverse polls in preparation for attacking adverse election results.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. the national interest
    Trump Reportedly Threatened to Sue Campaign Manager Over Low Poll NumbersTrump is taking the evaporation of his polling bounce as well as you’d expect.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. vision 2020
    Lawsuit Targets Discriminatory Vote-by-Mail Exemptions for SeniorsThe 26th Amendment, which extended the vote to 18-year-olds when today’s boomer seniors were young, may prevent discrimination in their favor today.
    By Ed Kilgore
  45. coronavirus
    80 Percent of Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Georgia Are African-AmericanAmid CDC evidence that black Georgians are disproportionately affected by COVID-19, Kemp’s business reopenings could make things much worse.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. voting rights
    Court Trashes Kobach’s Proof-of-Citizenship LawKobach is now running for the Senate instead of suppressing votes, but his signature law, which kept 31,000 Kansans from registering to vote, is gone.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. the national interest
    Trump Caught in Another Huge Lie About Coronavirus TestsPresident promises we’ll soon do 5 million a day; his testing chief calls that absurd.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. vision 2020
    Will Justin Amash’s Presidential Bid Help or Hurt Trump?His effect on the outcome in November may depend on his home state of Michigan.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. the swamp
    The American People Should See Trump’s Coronavirus Briefings in Their EntiretyIf the press wants to reveal the real Trump, we shouldn’t help the public look away.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  50. coronavirus
    More Americans Have Now Died From the Coronavirus Than in the Vietnam WarIn less than three months, the death toll from COVID-19 surpassed that of America’s nine-year war in Southeast Asia.
    By Matt Stieb
  51. vision 2020
    I Love Hillary Clinton — But She Should Stay Far, Far Away From Biden’s CampaignClinton should have a role in a Biden administration if she wants one. But proximity to his campaign can only hurt him.
    By Ed Kilgore
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