1. ilhan omar
    Only U.S. Military Can Have PTSD, Representative Tells War RefugeeIlhan Omar fled war-torn Somalia as a child and grew up in a Kenya refugee camp.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  2. impeachment
    House Republicans Want to Add Some Crazy to Trump Trial DefenseMcConnell is struggling to keep Trump’s acquittal minimally dignified, but his president and allies in the House have other ideas.
    By Ed Kilgore
  3. polls
    By 2-to-1 Margin, Voters Say Trump’s Soleimani Strike Made U.S. ‘Less Safe’In a new survey, a majority of Americans say Trump’s Iran policy is “reckless,” while just 24 percent say it made Americans “more safe.”
    By Eric Levitz
  4. border security
    When the ‘Americanness’ of Iranian-Americans Is ConditionalReports that Iranian-Americans have been singled out for suspicion and extra questioning at a U.S.-Canada border crossing reveal a larger truth.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  5. the national interest
    Maybe Nominating Michael Bloomberg for President Isn’t a Crazy IdeaAll of the candidates are flawed, but only one can outspend Trump five to one.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. vision 2020
    Is Warren Still a Viable Unity Candidate?She lost altitude as she got hit from left and center on Medicare for All, and old electability fears returned. But she can begin a comeback in Iowa.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. president trump
    Trump Doesn’t Want Voters to Know How Much His Family’s Trips Cost TaxpayersThe administration wants to delay revealing Secret Service expenses until 2021, in part so taxpayers don’t find out how much Trump’s vacations cost.
    By Matt Stieb
  9. qasem soleimani
    GOP Senator: White House Briefing on Soleimani Was ‘Insulting’Mike Lee called the administration’s case for assassinating Soleimani “the worst briefing, at least on a military issue, I’ve seen.”
    By Eric Levitz
  10. iran
    House Vote Is Unlikely to Curb Trump’s War Powers on IranThanks to many years of Congress ceding war-making powers to the commander-in-chief, Democrats have been left with a very weak hand.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. vision 2020
    How Democrats Can Stay United in 2020At the other end of the tough primary battle, Democrats must rally around their nominee if they hope to beat Trump. Here’s how they can do it.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. corruption
    Maryland Governor Accused of Rerouting State Funds to Benefit His BusinessIn a state with a history of corruption, the Never Trump hero may have more in common with the president’s business practices than with his politics.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. us-iran conflict
    Trump Says No Casualties in Iranian Missile Strikes, Announces New SanctionsIn a White House statement, Trump also announced new sanctions on Iran.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  14. the national interest
    Trump, Who Actually Loves Dictators, Smears Democrats As Iran LoversTrump says anybody who opposes his war must approve of his target. But Trump actually does approve of dictators.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. alexandria ocasio-cortez
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Appeases Critics With Something Everyone LikesIt’s a French bulldog.
    By Matt Stieb
  16. nikki haley
    Nikki Haley Calls Democrats Terrorist-LoversAny impression you may have had of Haley as representing an alternative to Trumpism is officially null and void.
    By Ed Kilgore
  17. policing
    LAPD Is Falsely Labeling People As Gang Members. It’s Part of a Bigger Crisis.LAPD officers’ falsely labeling people as gang members reveals a bigger problem: It doesn’t take much to get yourself added to a gang database.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  18. iran
    Trump Walks Back War-Crime Threat Against Iran: ‘I Like to Obey the Law’“I like to obey the law,” said Trump, despite years of evidence to the contrary.
    By Matt Stieb
  19. facebook
    Facebook Exec: Facebook Is Like the One Ring, Helped Trump WinAndrew Bosworth compares Facebook to an evil ring from fantasy books. He also thinks it helped Trump win.
    By Brian Feldman
  20. mike pompeo
    Mike Pompeo Isn’t Riding to the Rescue in KansasTrump’s other Kansas buddy, Kris Kobach, could well blow another statewide election for Republicans, one that could even lose them Senate control.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. michael flynn
    DOJ Suggests Michael Flynn Spend Up to 6 Months in Prison for Lying to FBIFlynn, famous for chanting “lock her up” at the 2016 RNC, could be facing jail time for his “apparent failure to accept responsibility.”
    By Matt Stieb
  22. impeachment
    McConnell Has the Votes to Begin Impeachment Trial Without WitnessesNeither Pelosi’s hold on articles of impeachment nor Bolton’s offer to testify shook Republican unity on beginning the trial without a witness deal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. the national interest
    Republicans Scared John Bolton Will Testify About Trump’s Ukraine CrimesFirsthand witness shouldn’t be heard in the Senate trial because reasons.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. democratic primaries
    Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden Can’t Inspire the ‘Energy’ Needed to Beat TrumpWith the Iowa caucuses a month away, Sanders is taking on the idea that Biden is the most electable candidate in the race.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  25. vision 2020
    Warren’s New Bankruptcy Plan Is Biden BaitAs she lags behind the field’s top competitors, Warren revisits a core issue.
    By Sarah Jones
  26. trump impeachment
    What Will Happen to the Trump Toadies?Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues.
    By Frank Rich
  27. iraq
    Trump Admin Drafts Iraq Sanctions to Counter Vote to Expel U.S. Troops: ReportSanctions aren’t normally levied against allies, but very little of the first week of the current crisis in the region could be considered “normal.”
    By Matt Stieb
  28. iran
    Fox News Welcomes ‘Deep State’ Intelligence When It Leads to Conflict With IranA serious change of tune for the network, which has attacked the “deep state” intelligence community for the Trump-Russia inquiries for three years.
    By Matt Stieb
  29. world view
    The ‘Painful Consequences’ of Trump’s Soleimani Decision Are Already HereFrom the gobsmacking confusion over the U.S. presence in Iraq to reports of discrimination at the border, we don’t have to wait for Iran’s response.
    By Heather Hurlburt
  30. impeachment
    Bolton’s Offer to Testify May Not Be a Game-Changer Just YetNobody really knows what he will say, and the battle over witnesses in an impeachment trial is far from resolved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  31. environment
    The NAACP Confronts Its Sordid Relationship With Big PollutersThe storied civil-rights organization is trying to find its way again. But it has some obstacles of its own making.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  32. iraq
    Read the Letter the Pentagon Accidentally Sent Announcing Withdrawal From IraqAfter a DOD letter emerged stating the U.S. would move troops out of Iraq, the Pentagon said it was a “poorly worded” draft and a “mistake.”
    By Matt Stieb
  33. qasem soleimani
    Trump’s Rationale for Killing Soleimani Makes No SenseThe White House has so little respect for the voting public, it didn’t even bother to make its case for war with Iran logically coherent.
    By Eric Levitz
  34. the national interest
    Joe Lieberman Is Sad Democrats Won’t Support Trump’s Iran WarLieberman believes Congress should always support the president’s foreign policy, unless the president is a Democrat.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. democratic primaries
    Julián Castro Endorses Elizabeth WarrenDays after ending his own campaign, Castro is getting behind Warren’s.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  36. profile
    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has Already Changed D.C. It Hasn’t Changed Her Much.She reshaped her party’s agenda, resuscitated Bernie Sanders’s campaign, and hardly has a friend in town.
    By David Freedlander
  37. iran
    House to Vote to Limit Trump’s Authority to Wage War on IranThe House will vote on a War Powers Resolution to cut off Trump’s authority to engage Iran after 30 days unless he seeks congressional approval.
    By Matt Stieb
  38. the national interest
    Trump’s One Foreign-Policy Idea Is to Make America More Like Its EnemiesThe president is neither a hawk nor a dove, but an admirer of war criminals and torturers.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. vision 2020
    Sanders Leads in New Hampshire, Part of Three-Way Tie for First in Iowa: PollThe end of the holiday polling drought is great for Bernie, and not so great for Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg.
    By Matt Stieb
  40. trump tweets
    Trump Reiterates Threat to Commit War Crimes in IranTrump doubled down on his threat to order strikes on cultural sites in Iran if they retaliated against the U.S. for the killing of General Soleimani.
    By Chas Danner
  41. international affairs
    Iraqi Lawmakers Vote to Expel U.S. As Fallout From Soleimani Strike WorsensIraq’s parliament, prime minister, and most powerful religious leader all want America out, and the U.S.-led fight against ISIS has come to a halt.
    By Chas Danner
  42. iran
    Mike Pompeo: Expected Iranian Retaliation Is Just a ‘Little Noise’It’s already pretty noisy: Since Soleimani’s death, Iran withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iraq wants U.S. forces out, and the U.S. expects retaliation.
    By Matt Stieb
  43. nonproliferation
    Iran Nixes Nuclear-Deal Commitments, Lifts Enrichment LimitsTrump’s maximum-pressure campaign has officially achieved the opposite of its supposed intent.
    By Chas Danner
  44. nypd
    NYPD Officer Michael Reynolds Resigns Over Racist 2018 Home InvasionBut little that he did diverged from what NYPD officers often do on the job.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  45. vision 2020
    The Geriatric Scenario for 2020Before Super Tuesday, late-septuagenarians Biden, Sanders and Bloomberg could be the last viable candidates opposing 74-year-old Trump.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. politics
    Is the Democratic Primary About Foreign Policy Now?Trump’s decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani refocuses the primary, at least for now.
    By Sarah Jones
  47. iran
    If Trump Can’t Bully Iran Into Backing Down, Things Could Get Scary FastTrump hates limited, conventional wars and also thinks intimidating enemies with great shows of force will subdue them. What if it doesn’t this time?
    By Ed Kilgore
  48. vision 2020
    Democrats Still Have Multiple Routes to 2020 Electoral College WinIt’s not necessarily all about the Rust Belt.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. vision 2020
    The Secret to Joe Biden’s (Hypothetical) ElectabilityThanks to his idiosyncratic career arc, Biden boasts strong support from black voters and whites who resent the political power of black voters.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. iran
    What Legal Authority Did Trump Have to Assassinate Qasem Soleimani?It looks like the administration will try to claim its attacks are covered by congressional authorizations of the War on Terror or the Iraq War.
    By Ed Kilgore
  51. the national interest
    Trump Thinks Attacking Iran Will Get Him Reelected. He’s Wrong.Republicans used to deny ending the Iran nuclear deal would lead to military conflict.
    By Jonathan Chait
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