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No, the Government Isn’t Coming for Your Burger—but May...

A key goal of climate policy is to regulate and eventually phase out polluting i...

Cornered Trump Launches Panicked, Racist Attack as $100...

Donald Trump’s fraud trial began Monday in New York, and the former president is...

Michigan Republicans’ Plan to Overturn Voting Rights Is...

Michigan Republicans have filed a lawsuit trying to overturn two major voting ri...

Donald Trump’s Favorite New York Judge Has Even More Ba...

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s business fraud case in New York has made...

New Jersey GOP Candidate Blames Poop-Smearing Incident ...

Republican candidate for New Jersey State Assembly Joseph Viso Jr. confessed to ...

With Jon Fosse’s Win, the Nobel Prize in Literature Is ...

After enormous dramas, intense scandals, a notable awardless year, a subsequent ...

Why Is TNR Hosting a Stop Trump Summit? It Should Be Pr...

I was on Morning Joe Thursday morning as part of a lively panel about Donald Tru...

The Attack on Wisconsin’s Governor Perfectly Sums Up Ou...

A man tried this week to attack Democratic Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, twice ...

Nancy Mace All but Brags About Her Hypocritical House S...

Nancy Mace was called out for trying to fundraise off voting to vacate the House...

Republicans Are So Mad They’re Airing All of Matt Gaetz...

Republicans, livid that Matt Gaetz plunged the House of Representatives into tur...

Who Did in Kevin McCarthy? Maybe Not Gaetz. Maybe Not E...

Did bond vigilantes kill Kevin McCarthy? Before you answer, “Of course they didn...

What Democrats Should Demand in the Next Speaker Fight

The United States is often said to have a two-party system. This is true until i...

Big Auto Screwed Itself on the E.V. Transition

As the United Auto Workers union continues to expand its strike against the Big ...

Speaker—Dare We Say It?—Jeffries? Here’s How It Could H...

Speaker Hakeem Jeffries: three words that have many Democrats salivating on tele...

The Republicans Booted Their Leader, so of Course It’s ...

To hear Republicans tell it, Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as speaker of the House on ...

The Plan to Avert a New Cold War

In March, historic rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia announced that they had agreed t...

“You Can Kiss My Ass”: Pretty Much Everyone Hates Matt ...

Matt Gaetz more or less singlehandedly plunged the House of Representatives into...

Senate Republicans Are Exasperated With House Republicans

With the shocking ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, congressional Republi...

Hours After Gag Order, Trump Launches Fresh Vitriol Aga...

Donald Trump on Wednesday launched fresh vitriol against the judge and prosecuti...

A Desperate Rudy Giuliani Is Quickly Losing His Legal Team

Another one of Rudy Giuliani’s lawyers has withdrawn from representing the forme...

McCarthy Allies Are Taking Revenge on Democrats, in Pet...

Allies of ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy have begun to exact a very strange...

Democrats, Stop Emptying Your Piggy Bank in California!

There’s a new senator in Washington, D.C., this week: Laphonza Butler, a former ...

The Supreme Court Could Eviscerate Rent Control

The housing market is not great right now. High prices and higher interest rates...

Trump’s Genius Legal Team Makes One More Sure-to-Lose A...

Donald Trump is trying one more time to throw out the federal indictment against...

Biden Scraps Environmental Laws to Build Trump’s Border...

In a notice posted to the federal registry on Wednesday, Homeland Security Secre...

Ecological Despair Is the Tie That Binds

I took a trip last week to meet up with some old college friends. We live all ar...

Morning news brief

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz made history by engineering House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's o...

Trump Endorses Jim Jordan in Race for House Speaker

Representatives Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise sought support from members of the ...

The New Cold War Has Come for Washington’s Pandas

What it means that China is taking back the D.C. icons.

The next speaker’s big challenge: Avoiding McCarthy’s fate

Any one Republican still has the power to eject the House leader. It's a problem...

How to fight a president, please a billionaire and save...

Marty Baron, longtime editor of The Washington Post, spills the tea on what actu...

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political...