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Mitch McConnell
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.
April 6, 2017
Brian Beutler
Mitch McConnell Abolished the Filibuster. Good!
There can be no more fitting capstone to the Senate majority leader's legacy of norm-breaking. And it will level the playing field once again.
April 4, 2017
Brian Beutler
Republicans Want to Screw Sick People for a Cheap Political Victory
Have a pre-existing condition? Good luck with that under the House GOP's plan, which seems designed merely to deflect blame toward the Senate.
April 3, 2017
Alex Shephard
The smallest violin is playing for these Republicans crying about the Neil Gorsuch filibuster.
April 3, 2017
Clio Chang
The end of the Supreme Court filibuster is nigh.
March 31, 2017
Jeet Heer
Democrats Will Lose a War of Obstruction With Republicans
Neil Gorsuch's nomination has put Democrats in a bind. But if they adopt Mitch McConnell's playbook, their progressive agenda will suffer greatly.
March 29, 2017
Alex Shephard
Are House Republicans really gearing up to get clowned on health care again?
March 24, 2017
Brian Beutler
Why Trumpcare Failed
There is more to passing major legislation than possessing a mathematical majority in Congress.
March 24, 2017
Graham Vyse
Here’s the scenario in which Trumpcare doesn’t crash and burn.
February 22, 2017
Eric Kleefeld
These rowdy town halls are really getting under Donald Trump’s skin.
February 17, 2017
Brian Beutler
The Great Government Breakdown Has Begun
Trump is exercising zero restraint, and Republicans aren't stopping him. Four years from now, the damage might be irreparable.
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