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31 July 2017

Chris Cillizza Is a Bad Pundit and a Good Sport

His disastrous Reddit AMA revealed how those traits go hand in hand.

Will Oremus

28 July 2017

How They Justify Collusion

The excuses for the Don Jr. meeting are even more damning than the meeting itself.

William Saletan

Don Trump Jr.’s Emails Are the Smoking Gun

The people closest to Trump intended to collude with Russia and had the blithe sense of corrupt impunity to spell out that intention in an email chain. They unapologetically sided with a hostile foreign power against their fellow citizens. The biggest question now is whether Republicans in Congress will do the same.

Michelle Goldberg


This Town Melts Down

A veteran political reporter takes stock of how Washington has – and hasn’t – changed in the time of Trump.


The Republican health bill is stuck in a valley of incoherence

A sitting US senator celebrating Americans' freedom to not be able to afford health insurance sounds like a socialist satire of American values.

Ezra Klein


The Secret Goal of Trump’s Voting Commission

It is seeking to gut the Motor Voter Act.

Mark Joseph Stern

13 July 2017

I Found HanAssholeSolo’s anti-Semitic Posts. Then, the Death Threats Started.

This is what it’s like to report on extremism in the Trump era.

Jared Yates Sexton

Trevor Noah on the Philando Castile verdict: the NRA should “be losing their goddamn minds”

"'How does a black person not get shot in America? Because if you think about it, the bar is always moving. The goalposts are always shifting. There's always a different thing that explains why a person got shot ... at some point you realize, there's no real answer.'"

"'It's interesting how the people who define themselves by one fundamental American right — the right to bear arms — show that once race is involved, the only right that they believe in is the right to remain silent.'"