In an interview, Casey Michel, a reporter who covers D.C. lobbying, explains how Trump's humiliating attack on Nikki Haley puts would-be GOP critics on notice, helping build the Trump oligarchy.

As Trump puts Republicans on notice against daring to criticize him, a reporter who covers D.C. influence peddling explains how he is already building a new Trump kleptocracy right before our eyes.

Donald Trump has a lengthy list of who will be banned from his next administration.

Harris had opportunities to break away from Trump. She squandered them.

Do we love Cheney? Of course not. But that’s hardly the point. The point is, can she move votes?

This week’s Republican convention felt more like a religious gathering.

The Ohio senator is a sycophant who will never challenge or question his boss—not even to defend American democracy.

Why Donald Trump’s unexpected loss of 22 percent of Indiana GOP primary voters to Nikki Haley—two months after she ended her campaign—could spell trouble for him in November.

Her entire candidacy was predicated on the notion that she’d be there if Trump’s legal woes caught up with him. Two controversial high court rulings ended that dream.

Breathless press reports present 100,000 votes as an existential danger. But there’s little reason to believe the president’s reelection effort is in mortal peril.

They’re freaking out about a Biden-Trump rematch. It’s far too early to start worrying.

She got creamed by Trump in South Carolina, but she comes from a milieu where you never really lose.

The insurgent energy of a 2016 Trump rally is gone. But the enemies are the same, and that may be all that matters.

She won’t win the Republican nomination, but by staying in the race she’s lowering Donald Trump’s chances of returning to the White House.

What the politics of Bamberg County reveal about the former South Carolina governor’s struggles against Trump

Trump’s extraordinary level of support among white evangelical voters is his secret weapon against his one remaining primary rival—and it’s changing the GOP.

Sometimes you can just feel the conventional wisdom changing.

Trump is furious that Haley hasn’t quit the Republican race, but maybe he should be thanking her.

When Biden attacks Trump, it’s dog bites man. But when Haley hits him, it’s news. And she can remind voters of all the bad things about Trump they’ve forgotten.

If even New Hampshirites convincingly chose Trump over Haley, then there’s no doubt that GOP voters prefer ugly authoritarianism.