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Mitch McConnell
June 19, 2017
Alex Shephard
Do not shed a tear for the Republican senators complaining about the health care bill’s secrecy.
June 19, 2017
Brian Beutler
The Secret Republican Health Care Bill Is an Affront to Enlightenment Values
June 14, 2017
Jeet Heer
The Russia Scandal Is Distracting Democrats From Trumpcare
Republicans are secretly crafting a health care bill. Where's the outrage?
June 13, 2017
Clio Chang
Senate Democrats need to go nuclear on Trumpcare right now.
June 12, 2017
Alex Shephard
Trump is in free fall, but the GOP is going to try to ram through Trumpcare anyway.
June 6, 2017
Graham Vyse
Republicans just want health care to go away—even if their bill fails.
June 5, 2017
Jeet Heer
Trump Is Not a Builder. He’s a Destroyer.
The president only wants to sabotage and tear down what already exists—and the Republican Party is eager to let him.
May 31, 2017
Alex Shephard
Al Franken’s Memoir Is the Best Political Book of 2017
The senator from Minnesota is the rare politician with a funny bone.
May 18, 2017
Brian Beutler
Republicans Are as Tainted by the Russia Scandal as Trump
The president's complete lack of integrity is rubbing off on the party at large.
May 16, 2017
Alex Shephard
Merrick Garland now has a lifetime appointment as a political prop.
May 16, 2017
Brian Beutler
“No Drama” McConnell is turning the cynical subtext of the GOP’s devil’s bargain with Trump into text.
May 15, 2017
Alex Shephard
Is this really what Donald Trump losing Senate Republicans looks like?
May 11, 2017
Brian Beutler
Our Rendezvous With Authoritarianism Has Arrived
Comey’s firing should be a frightful awakening from complacency. If Trump gets away with it, he will read it as permission to run amok.
May 8, 2017
Alex Shephard
Trumpcare is about to undergo a death by a thousand cuts in the Senate.
May 5, 2017
Alex Shephard
You’ll never guess what the 13 people writing the Senate’s health care bill have in common.
May 4, 2017
Alex Shephard
The healthcare bill that the House just passed is so good the Senate is going to completely disregard it.
May 2, 2017
Brian Beutler
Please proceed, President Shutdown.
April 11, 2017
Brian Beutler
Trump Would Fail Even Worse With Kushner’s Centrism
Steve Bannon is right about one thing: Trump's son-in-law is incompatible with the president's ethnonationalist base.
April 7, 2017
Brian Beutler
Sorry, Mitch McConnell, THIS was the most consequential decision of your career.
April 6, 2017
Clio Chang
The Republicans have pulled off the heist of the century to fill Antonin Scalia’s seat.

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