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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Perilous Path Ahead for the Senate Health-Care Bill
The long-awaited proposal begins with few friends and many critics—on the right, the center, and the left. But the chilly reception doesn’t mean the legislation is doomed.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What's in the Senate Republican Health-Care Bill
Like the House version, Mitch McConnell’s proposal would slash taxes, cut Medicaid, and eliminate Obamacare’s insurance mandates for individuals and employers.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Congress Heads for a Showdown on Obamacare
The clock, as they say, is ticking. Fast.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / Katie Martin ... 'We're Amending Obamacare. We're Not Killing It'
The Senate bill coming out Thursday would do many things to health care in the U.S., but it won’t get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and Mitch McConnell won’t claim that it does.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Most Lasting Legacy?
America’s courts—presently a thorn in the president’s side—are about to get a lot more conservative. And they will probably stay that way for a very long time.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Paul Ryan Fights the Bush Legacy on Taxes
The House speaker is pushing President Trump to embrace permanent reform rather than a quick jolt like the temporary cuts that George W. Bush signed in 2001.
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David Goldman / AP How the Democrats Can Take Back Congress
Two architects of their party's last congressional victory argue Democrats need to recruit candidates who match their districts and offer voters a detailed agenda.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Democrats Stage a Senate Slowdown Over Health Care
They’ll disrupt ordinary business and hold the floor all night for speeches to protest the GOP’s secretive attempt to gut the Affordable Care Act.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Vacation's All They Ever Wanted
The House Freedom Caucus is making a long-shot push to cancel the August recess unless more legislation is passed.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Top Republicans Tell Trump: Make Obamacare Work, for Now
With Democrats accusing the administration of sabotaging the health law, two GOP committee chairmen urge the president to continue payments to insurers that could shore up the insurance market.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP How Democrats Would Fix Obamacare
They’ve said if Republicans dropped their repeal demand, they’d be willing to help repair the law. Here are some of their ideas.
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Cliff Owen / AP The GOP's Risky Calculation for 2018
Congressional Republicans and President Trump are governing in a manner that appeals only to their base, not the wider electorate. That could have consequences through 2020.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters The Blurry Line Between Violent Talk and Violent Action
How do progressives express their moral fury without embracing a dehumanizing language of their own?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Between the Lines of Jim Comey's Testimony
The former FBI director left a number of hints about where the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election could go.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Criminal-Justice Reformers Pin Their Hopes on Jared Kushner
On the Hill, the president’s adviser and son-in-law is seen as the best chance to get support from the White House.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Senate Republican Calling 'Nonsense' on President Trump
Standing up for Democrats, Charles Grassley is challenging the administration’s policy of ignoring most oversight demands from Congress.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Incompetence Defense
Republican senators suggest Trump is innocent because he didn’t try very hard to obstruct justice, or because he was bad at it.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Bernie Sanders's Religious Test for Christians in Public Office
During a contentious confirmation hearing, the Vermont senator questioned the faith of the nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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Evan Vucci and Susan Walsh / AP Comey: ‘I Was Fired Because of the Russia Investigation’
In a hearing today, the Senate Intelligence Committee asked the former FBI director about his dismissal by President Trump, the conversations that preceded it, and the sprawling Russia investigation.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters The Trump Administration Issues a Defense of Stonewalling Congress
The White House says that under the law, it only has to respond to records requests that come from committee chairmen—who all happen to be Republicans. Democrats say it amounts to a ‘gag order.’
