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Evan Vucci / AP Why Trump Isn’t Sweating a Shutdown This Time
The president says he doesn’t like Congress’s border-funding deal. But he’ll probably sign it anyway.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Ilhan Omar Just Made It Harder to Have a Nuanced Debate About Israel
The Minnesota congresswoman has given credence to caricatures of critics of Israel.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times via ... Some Democrats Actually Liked What They Heard From Trump
High-profile progressives and party leadership panned the president’s calls for unity. But a group of the newest House lawmakers saw an opening.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Sees an Opening With Voters on Late-Term Abortion
The president lamented bills that would allow “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments from birth” in his State of the Union address.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Congress Just Wants to Be Left Alone
As House and Senate lawmakers begin their border-security talks, they’ve managed to agree on at least one thing.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters There’s a Way for Democrats to Sue Trump—Thanks to the Republicans
A lawsuit to block the border wall could go the route the House GOP took in 2014 to challenge Obamacare.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Most Remarkable Thing About Trump's Proposed National Emergency
With his solution to the border-wall impasse, the president seems to be working within the boundaries of law—revealing the massive power of the American executive.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP The Shutdown Is Making Senate Republicans Squirm
As President Trump descends on the border Thursday to further make his case for a wall, back home in Washington the impasse continues.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Trumpification of Political Discourse
Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib may have delighted the far-left with her coarse words for the president—but she’s also mirroring his style.
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Jeff Roberson / AP What Claire McCaskill's Exit Interview Reveals About the Democratic Party
A recent New York Times interview with the outgoing Missouri senator helps illustrate one of the central dilemmas facing her compatriots.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters House Democrats Don't Know What to Make of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Staffers and aides to party leadership say they love her enthusiasm. But they’re worried her approach will threaten caucus unity.
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Jewel Samad / AP There’s a Better Way to Elect House Members
Representative Don Beyer of Virginia has proposed a plan for ranked-choice voting that would make the U.S. House less partisan and more representative for all.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP The Resistance Won't Win Back Arizona's Senate Seat
Centrist candidate Kyrsten Sinema could be close to becoming the state’s first Democratic senator in 20 years.
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Laura Buckman Progressives Rooting for a Latino Surge Might Be Disappointed
Organizers are working overtime to mobilize these voters in Texas, but experts say not to expect a huge turnout in November.
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Reuters The Kavanaugh Prosecutor Is Asking a Baffling Line of Questions
Rachel Mitchell may be laying the groundwork for future investigations with her interrogation of Christine Blasey Ford.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Conservative Women Are Leading the Defense of Kavanaugh
Anti-abortion legal advocates in Washington, D.C., are sticking with him, but outside of the Beltway, women’s views are more ambiguous.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Brett Kavanaugh’s Confirmation Hearing Didn’t Change Anything
After a week of political theater in the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Trump’s nominee is back where he started: on his way to the Supreme Court.
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Alex Wroblewski / Reuters Kavanaugh Has a Strong Chance of Confirmation—and of Becoming an Election Rallying Cry
The Supreme Court nominee has become a symbol of the president’s quiet judicial legacy and the anti-Trump resistance.
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Charles Krupa / AP When Having a Progressive Record Isn’t Enough
Ayanna Pressley’s challenge to the Democrat Mike Capuano in Massachusetts shows how the left is looking for candidates with “lived experience.”
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What John McCain’s Death Means for Republican Control of the Senate
After the late Arizonan’s prolonged absence, the appointment of a replacement by Governor Doug Ducey will temporarily bolster the GOP’s advantage.
