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  1. Turnout Will Win It for Moore or Jones, But GOP Will Have a Headache Either WayIn a strange campaign where the front-runner disappeared and the polls are all over the place, turnout patterns will matter most.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. Roy Moore Hasn’t Won Just YetMoore has improved his position since being hit with sexual-misconduct allegations, but African-American turnout for Doug Jones could be crucial.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Obama Retweets Trumped Trump’s in 2017Congrats to Barack.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Donald Trump’s Tree Lighting Looked Just Like Obama’s, Minus the CrowdsIt’s like the inauguration all over again.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
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    Obama Studied the BladeIn Hawaii.
    By Brian Feldman
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    Obama–Biden Memes Reach Meta Peak With Birthday TweetHappy birthday, Joe Biden.
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  7. Obama Is Now More Popular Than Trump in Alabama, Fox News Poll FindsAlso, Democrat Doug Jones leads Roy Moore by eight points in the race for Jeff Sessions’s old Senate seat.
    By Eric Levitz
  8. Racism May Have Gotten Us Into This Mess, But Identity Politics Can’t Get Us OutTa-Nehisi Coates tells us that Donald Trump’s racial appeal makes him America’s first white president. But how do we make him the last?
    By Briahna Joy Gray
  9. No, the Extremist Fever in the GOP Is Not BreakingBoth Barack Obama and Jeff Flake have described extremism in the GOP as a “fever.” With Trump in charge, it’s now stronger than ever.
    By Ed Kilgore
  10. Will the Obama Coalition Turn Out in 2018? Virginia Might Offer Some CluesNon-presidential election falloff in the base is a long-standing problem for Democrats that they haven’t clearly solved.
    By Ed Kilgore
  11. ex-presidents
    Obama, Bush Both Blast Trump Without Saying His NameIn separate speeches on Thursday, the two former presidents aired their grievances about the current occupant of the White House.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. As the Parties Have Polarized on Immigration Policy, Hispanic Vote Stays StableThe major parties have been rapidly separating on immigration policy in the very recent past. But other factors have kept the Hispanic vote stable.
    By Ed Kilgore
  13. Trump Redoubles Claim That Obama Didn’t Call Gold Star FamiliesHe somehow made this story even more crass.
    By Benjamin Hart
  14. the national interest
    The Berniecrats Have an Obama ProblemA small problem for the triumph of the revolution.
    By Jonathan Chait
  15. Democrat Doug Jones Has a Slim — But Real — Chance of Upsetting Roy MooreIt will depend on convincing Alabamians that Moore will embarrass their state.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Obama Warned Mark Zuckerberg About His Platform’s ProblemsPresident Obama could see what Mark Zuckerberg couldn’t.
    By Brian Feldman
  17. Obama Blasts GOP’s ‘50th or 60th’ Attempt to Repeal the Affordable Care ActEach time Obama comments on efforts to “repeal and replace,” he sounds a little more annoyed.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  18. Trump’s Immigration Flip-FlopHis astonishing (if shaky) deal with Democrats is a miniature version of the immigration reform efforts that divided the GOP in the recent past.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Judge Kills Obama Overtime Rule That Would Have Benefited 4 Million WorkersThe same Obama-appointed judge who froze implementation of a more generous rule for overtime pay last year struck it down for real today.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Trump May End DACA — and Still Hold Dreamers HostageA reported go-slow approach to rescinding DACA is compatible with a strategy of making Dreamers part of a broader immigration deal.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. the national interest
    The Obama-Era Deficit Scolds Want Big Tax Cuts NowFix the Debt is now fixin’ to get paid.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. Birther Friends Forever: Why Trump and Sheriff Joe Arpaio Are BFFsA look back at a friendship forged in the fires of a racist conspiracy theory.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  23. How the Indiana GOP Skewed Early Voting Opportunities to Benefit ThemselvesRepublicans block early voting opportunities in areas favoring Democrats, while expanding them on their own turf.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Republicans Fall Back in Love With Crony CapitalismA central tenet of Obama-era conservatism dies a quiet, lonely death.
    By Jonathan Chait
  25. Jesus, Trump, and Guns: Luther Strange’s Ultimate Alabama GOP AdIn a race marred by negative ads, Senator Luther Strange has a positive spot that’s got more shout-outs to conservative icons than you can count.
    By Ed Kilgore
  26. RNC Makes Kayleigh McEnany Its National SpokespersonMcEnany once mocked Barack Obama for having a brother who lives “in a hut in Kenya,” and expressed support for the birther movement.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. There May Not Be As Many ‘Trump Democrats’ As Previously ImaginedThe obsession with “Obama-Trump voters” showing the fatal Democratic weakness in 2016 may be based on imaginary party-switchers voting GOP as usual.
    By Ed Kilgore
  28. July Jobs Report: 2017 Looking Exactly Like 2016It’s becoming monotonous to report, but it’s true: the slow but steady recovery continues, which could help Trump stabilize his shaky popularity.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    Trump Is Proving That Obama’s Legacy Will SurviveQuite by mistake, a failing presidency reveals the true scale of its predecessor’s achievements.
    By Jonathan Chait
  30. Ejected by Voters, ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’ Could Wind Up in PrisonIt’s been a long way down for Joe Arpaio since he lost reelection last year. And now he’s been convicted of contempt of court, and could be jailed.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    How ‘Neoliberalism’ Became the Left’s Favorite Insult of LiberalsThe rise and meaning of an ubiquitous term of abuse.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. White House: The Real Story of Don Jr.’s Emails Is That Democrats Are BadThe administration is already brainstorming how they can spin this into a “conversation” about Clinton’s mishandling of “sensitive intelligence.”
    By Eric Levitz
  33. The U.S. Economy Doesn’t Care Who’s PresidentIn June, there were an impressive 222,000 new jobs created. How much does Trump’s agenda have to do with it?
    By Ed Kilgore
  34. the national interest
    Trump: Obama Should Have Punished Putin, Who Might Be InnocentThe president displays his signature alt-arguments on the international stage.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. Trump Rejected Military’s ISIS Strategy Because It Was Too Similar to Obama’sThe White House reportedly asked the military for a new anti-ISIS plan because its first one was hard to “brand” as a break from Obama.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. Poll: Trump Has Hurt America’s Image in the Eyes of the WorldExcept in Russia and Israel, anyway.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. Trump Admits He Called GOP Health-Care Plan ‘Mean’He’s complaining that Obama stole the term from him.
    By Chas Danner
  38. Report: Obama Tried to Stop Election Tampering, But Thought It Would FailA new report suggests Obama knew about Putin’s intervention in the 2016 election and its aims, but didn’t move aggressively until it was too late.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Obama Begs Senate GOP Not to Hurt Millions Just to Spite HimThis “is not a health-care bill,” Obama said, but “a massive transfer of wealth from middle-class and poor families to the richest people in America.”
    By Eric Levitz
  40. Making Sense of Trump’s Announcement About DreamersHe left in place a policy protecting young undocumented immigrants while canceling protections for their parents. It’s unclear what’s next.
    By Ed Kilgore
  41. With Obama Gone, Black Voting Drop-off a Real Problem for DemocratsThere is fresh evidence that African-American turnout sagged notably in 2016, and is not rebounding so far in 2017, either.
    By Ed Kilgore
  42. On Memorial Day, Trump Misses Opportunity to Honor Portland’s Fallen SoldierTrump’s speech was appropriate and sometimes eloquent. But sacrifice extends beyond war.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. Trump Signs Holocaust Museum’s Book of Remembrance Like It’s a Child’s Yearbook“It is a great honor to be here with all my friends — so amazing & will never forget!”
    By Eric Levitz
  44. Trump’s Speech in Saudi Arabia Was More Obama Than BannonCompared to his campaigning, it was a blatant flip-flop. Will his supporters who bashed Hillary Clinton for being “soft” on terrorism forgive him?
    By Jesse Singal
  45. Will the Reality of President Trump Help Reverse the Black Turnout Slump?A sharp drop off in African-American voting helped Trump defeat Clinton. Democrats need a way to reverse that without Obama on the ballot.
    By Ed Kilgore
  46. A Few Republican Senators Helped Save an Obama-Era Climate RuleIt prevents the venting of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — at drilling sites.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. Obama: Congress Must Show the ‘Courage’ Not to Deprive Millions of Health CareHe hopes they’ll “look at the facts and speak the truth, even when it contradicts party positions” — though that’s not really their style.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  48. Obama’s $400K Speech Renews Chaffetz’s Passion for Presidential OversightHe plans to take action over Obama’s “hypocrisy,” but still isn’t very interested in investigating Trump.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  49. GOP Senators Reject Trump’s Call for Getting Rid of Filibuster“That will not happen,” said the Majority Leader.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. Republican Uses Obama’s Wall Street Speaking Fee to Justify Dodd-Frank RepealA testament to the GOP’s shameless mendacity — and the former president’s misjudgment.
    By Eric Levitz
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