Elaina Plott
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters A Republican Enlisted His Pregnant Daughter for an Abortion Attack Ad
The new spot criticizes North Dakota Democrat Heidi Heitkamp’s record in the Senate.
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Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle via AP This Race in Houston Is the Future of Texas Politics
The Republican incumbent John Culberson has held the minority-majority Seventh Congressional District for almost two decades, but the Democrat Lizzie Fletcher hopes to finally turn out progressives and minorities.
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Ken Cedeno / Getty John McCain's Anachronistic Memorial
Friday’s ceremony on Capitol Hill felt plucked from a different chapter of the nation’s history, and offered a rare reprieve from presidential drama.
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Ilana Panich-Linsman Hurricane Harvey Is Houston’s Unending Nightmare
A year after flood waters devastated the nation’s fourth-largest city, Houston remains trapped in an existential moment, struggling to find the funds to rebuild and reengineer and keep another such catastrophe at bay.
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Dominick Reuter / AFP / Getty What Omarosa Thinks of Pence, Melania, and the Trump Kids
In her new book, the former senior White House official describes the Trump administration as a “cult” of “worshipful” followers.
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Justin Ide / Reuters ‘Unite the Right’ and the Politics of Silence
This weekend’s white-nationalist rally, held on the anniversary of the bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia, will be a test for the Republican Party.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters An Unsatisfying End to the Buzziest Part of Paul Manafort’s Trial
Rick Gates’s admission that he’d had a secret affair in London offered the potential for high drama. But in the end, it disappointed, like much of the testimony on day six.
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Why Republicans Aren’t Planning for the Coming Mueller Report
Congressional lawmakers and their aides say there’s been no discussion about what to say or how to react, whatever the findings may be.
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Alabama Coal Association / Katie Martin / The ... Hope and Change in an Alabama Coal Mine
Buoyed by President Trump’s support for the industry, a veteran miner is putting his cash on the line and reopening his business.
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Leah Millis / Reuters ‘He’ll Never Really Lose the Support and Money of the Party’
The Republican establishment’s glowing praise for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee suggests that the GOP apparatus, and its donor network, will stay loyal.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Inside Scott Pruitt’s Tumultuous Final Months as EPA Administrator
Many members of his inner circle apparently couldn’t stand their boss.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The GOP’s Bill to Stop Family Separations Looks Dead for Now
Waffling on the part of the White House likely means that no legislation on the matter will come up for a vote before recess next week.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP House Leadership Is About to Introduce a Family-Separations Bill
On Tuesday night, they plan to offer narrow legislation to address President Trump’s most controversial immigration policy.
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Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Republicans Are Lost on Immigration
Mixed directives from Trump have left Republicans yet another obstacle in their path to immigration reform.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The National Outrage Over Immigration Is Beginning to Get to Trump
The president met with House Republican lawmakers, pushed them to pass immigration reform, and indicated he would sign whichever bill reached his desk.
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Evan Agostini / AP Ivana’s Turn in the Trump Show
At the Plaza Hotel on Wednesday night, the businesswoman tried to promote a new weight-loss plan—and avoid talking to reporters about her ex-husband.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Great Moderate Republican Flameout
The internal GOP revolt over a bill to protect young undocumented immigrants ends with a whimper.
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Reuters Pruitt Aide Resigns Amid Scandals
Millan Hupp filed her paperwork shortly after portions of her congressional testimony were made public.
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Andrew Harnik / AP / Katie Martin / ... The Man Who Would Be Speaker
The odds are against Steve Scalise—but he's used to that.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Playing Second Fiddle at Your Own Campaign Rally
At an event for Senate hopeful Marsha Blackburn in Nashville, President Trump barely addressed the candidate he was there to support. But he may have helped her anyway.
