A guide to common misconceptions you’ll read about the GOP primary.

Establishment Republicans really don’t want Trump as their nominee. What they can do to prevent it is another matter.

The recent fight over the speakership proved the point yet again: Today’s Republican Party is driven by egos and power rivalries, not ideas. The GOP once had ideas—lots of them. The problem was that they were unpopular and bad.

DeSantis? Haley? Whoever else? Forget it. The disgraced, twice-impeached, soon-to-be-indicted racist conman is still the front-runner.

“For them, chaos is the point. But we have choices in response.”

Forty-nine GOP senators—plus Joe Manchin—are backing a resolution that could damage pension fund returns, just to stick it to the libs.

Residents of the nation’s capital fought hard for home rule. If the GOP has its way, the city will become Capitol Hill’s private colony.

The discharge petition has been floated as a Hail Mary to avoid default, but the current political conditions do not augur success.

A growing number of conservatives are calling for the New York lawmaker’s ouster from Congress. But why? He fits in just fine.

GOP lawmakers in the House take up fentanyl, drug addiction, and the border as their new causes célèbres.

What does Kevin McCarthy bring to the table, besides an obsessive need to be liked by a caucus beyond his control?

When and if the former president’s demise comes, it will provide little sense of justice or gratification. And the worst parts of his legacy will simply pass into some other Republican’s hands.

The fringiest members of the House Republican caucus aren’t mounting a coup d’état, they’re staging a coup de vibes.

The story of a pathological liar who conned his way to Congress has provided some high comedy. But you won’t like it when the laughter stops.

Buckle up, we’re about to find out how strange the GOP has become.

How Democrats can heed the lessons of 2022 in the year to come

The GOP is planning probes next year of the chaotic 2021 withdrawal. Is there room for a real reckoning—or just partisan point-scoring?

As conservatives increasingly turn to secular culture-war outrages to fire up their base, it would seem that God is no longer their co-pilot.

The “responsible” position is to hope the Republicans reject Trump in 2024 for the good of the country. But there’s another way of looking at that.

It should alarm Democrats that these midterm contenders delivered big wins for the GOP, all without moderating their MAGA identity.