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  1. The Final Obamacare Repeal-and-Replace Scheme Is Headed for a DitchIt’s an underfunded version of an earlier plan to let states control health-care policy. But Graham-Cassidy is probably a bill whose time has passed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. McCain Says He’s Fighting ‘Virulent’ Form of Cancer“Every life has to end one way or another.”
    By Benjamin Hart
  3. Trump Could Bust Loose Again at Phoenix RallyIt would be natural for the president to follow up on controlled remarks about Afghanistan with an uninhibited base-feeding frenzy the next night.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. Romney Takes Trump to the Woodshed, Calls for Presidential ApologyThe 2012 GOP nominee unambiguously condemns Trump’s remarks about Charlottesville and calls for an extremely unlikely retraction and apology.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. GOP Senator: McCain’s Brain Tumor May Have Affected Health-Care Vote“He has a brain tumor right now — that vote occurred at 1:30 in the morning, some of that might have factored in,” Senator Ron Johnson said.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  6. The GOP’s Latest Health-Care GambitThis last-gasp effort at a GOP-only bill mostly gives states the flexibility to cut health-care services, while threatening insurance-market chaos.
    By Ed Kilgore
  7. What If McCain Had Said ‘Yes’ to the ‘Skinny Repeal’?If the climactic vote on the “skinny repeal” had gone the other way, the result would have probably been the same: GOP failure, with much time lost.
    By Ed Kilgore
  8. Is Kasich Preparing a Primary Challenge to Trump in 2020?Kasich has never bent the knee to Trump. But viable primary challengers to sitting presidents come from the fever swamps, not the sensible center.
    By Ed Kilgore
  9. It’s an Abomination That 49 GOP Senators Voted for ‘Skinny Repeal’Republicans came within one vote of passing a health-care bill that they wrote over lunch — and admitted was a “disaster.” That’s a national crisis.
    By Eric Levitz
  10. interesting times
    A Week of ReckoningConsider the violence the president has done to the structures of American democracy in just the past seven days.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  11. GOP Health-Care Drive Ends Not With a Bang But a WhimperRepublicans couldn’t come up with a workable health-care plan, so they kept kicking the can down the road. The road finally ended in the Senate today.
    By Ed Kilgore
  12. the national interest
    Confused Republican Senators Explain Why They Will Vote for Repeal ‘Disaster’John McCain calls for bipartisanship, votes to prevent it from happening.
    By Jonathan Chait
  13. 7 Senate Republicans Help Kill GOP’s Obamacare Repeal BillA second major GOP Obamacare repeal bill, the one Congress passed in 2015, was handily defeated by the Senate.
    By Ed Kilgore
  14. GOP Lawmakers Break With Trump on Transgender Military BanSeveral senators have called out the ban, saying any qualified American should be able to serve in the military.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  15. mavericks
    McCain Didn’t Really Vote for a Bill He Attacked. His ‘Yes’ Was Still Bizarre.Technically, the vote wasn’t about the legislation itself — but it was about advancing the irregular Senate process he so passionately decried.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. McCain Gives Heroic Speech Denouncing Terrible Thing That He Just Voted ForThe senator calls on his colleagues to abandon their indefensible approach to Obamacare repeal — minutes after voting to let them keep at it.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. Senate GOP Advances Health-Care Bill(s) to DebateSenate Republicans don’t know what their health-care bill is, or what it does, but they just voted to advance it to debate.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. John McCain Is Returning to the Senate, Probably to Help Destroy ObamacareHis return on Tuesday, following surgery and a diagnosis of brain cancer, shows Republicans think they’re close to reviving their health-care bill.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  19. McConnell Schedules Leap-Into-the-Unknown Health-Care Vote for TuesdayIt could be a bluff, or McConnell may have something up his sleeve, but at this point, it seems he’s planning a vote he’ll probably lose.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Six Questions About the Senate Health-Care Bill As the Endgame ApproachesThe GOP is still struggling for votes to bring up health-care legislation. If that succeeds, the deal-making and rules-breaking will get serious.
    By Ed Kilgore
  21. awful things
    McCain’s Former Primary Foe Calls for Him to Resign, Citing Cancer DiagnosisShe also offered to take his seat. Her remarks didn’t go over very well.
    By Benjamin Hart
  22. Here Is Where Things Stand With the Senate Health-Care BillMcConnell doesn’t have the votes to pass any version of it. But, in theory, he does have an incredibly narrow path to success.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. John McCain Diagnosed With Brain CancerDoctors discovered a brain tumor during surgery to remove a blood clot last week.
    By Margaret Hartmann and Daniel Karp
  24. McCain’s Recovery May Take Longer Than Expected, Dimming Health Bill’s ProspectsThe vote has already been delayed by at least a week, and each day its passage becomes less likely.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  25. obamacare repeal
    Vote on GOP Health-Care Bill Delayed While McCain Recovers from Sudden SurgeryMcCain is expected to recover, but the same can’t be said for the GOP’s haphazard efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
    By Chas Danner
  26. The Pentagon Is Preparing to Send 4,000 More U.S. Troops to AfghanistanThere are currently 8,400 U.S. troops in the country, along with 5,000 NATO soldiers.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  27. Kamala Harris Pummels Jeff Sessions So Badly John McCain Has to Stop HerSenator forces Sessions to admit his “policy” of not talking about what Trump said is not really a policy.
    By Jonathan Chait
  28. The 9 Biggest Revelations From James Comey’s Testimony on TrumpTo name just one: The FBI director believes that Trump’s actions may have constituted obstruction of justice.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. Senate Dems Looking for 3 Republicans Brave Enough to Help Them Get Russia ProbeBy holding confirmation of a Comey successor hostage to an independent-inquiry demand.
    By Ed Kilgore
  30. 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
  31. John McCain Called Kim Jong-un a ‘Crazy Fat Kid’ and North Korea Is PissedA spokesman for Pyongyang called McCain’s remarks a “severe provocation” tantamount to a declaration of war.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  32. feuds
    A Brief History of John McCain and Rand Paul’s Sick BurnsThe two have been trading pot shots for years.
    By Jen Kirby
  33. politics
    McCain: Trump Should Prove Wiretapping Claim or Retract ItHe also believes that, with regards to the Trump campaign and Russia, there are “a lot more shoes to drop from this centipede.”
    By Chas Danner
  34. politics
    McCain Keeps Criticizing Trump, Warns Against Attacks on PressHe warned that suppressing the media is “how dictators get started,” though he mostly avoided direct references to the president.
    By Chas Danner
  35. politics
    John McCain the Republican vs. John McCain the PatriotThe senator (ambivalently, agonizingly) takes on the president.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  36. John McCain Makes Nice With Australia After Trump’s ‘Unnecessary’ DisputeThe Arizona senator called Australia’s ambassador to express his “unwavering support for the U.S.-Australia alliance.”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  37. John McCain Not Happy With Trump’s NSC Shake-up or the Entry BanThe Republican senator doesn’t think that Steve Bannon should have a permanent invitation to the National Security Council’s most important meeting.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  38. Will McCain Sue Trump for Trying to Bring Back Torture?It could be a test of the willingness of both Congress and the courts to restrain the new president.
    By Ed Kilgore
  39. Trump Asks If We Are ‘Living in Nazi Germany,’ As Priebus Denies Russia Leak“I have nothing to do with Russia — no deals, no loans, no nothing!”
    By Adam K. Raymond
  40. the national interest
    The GOP Congress Is Out of the Checks-and-Balances Business“I will not discuss President-elect Donald Trump,” says famous straight-talker.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. trump transition
    John McCain Warns Trump Not to Bring Back TortureMike Pence responded, “We’re going to have a president who will never say what we’ll never do.”
    By Chas Danner
  42. John McCain Announced the Dawn of a New Winner-Take-All Era in WashingtonSenator McCain’s promise not to approve a Democratic president’s Supreme Court pick portends some big changes.
    By Ed Kilgore
  43. the national interest
    McCain Vows Supreme Court Blockade Will Continue Through Clinton’s PresidencyConstitutional crises everywhere.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. Trump’s New Strategy Is to Make Liberals Too Depressed to Leave Their HomesTrump has given up on swing voters. Now he just wants to fling mud at Clinton until her voters are demoralized and his base is fired up.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. John McCain Is Now Campaigning As a Check on President Hillary Clinton“If Hillary Clinton is elected president, Arizona will need a senator who will act as a check, not a rubber stamp,” McCain says in a new video.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. Trump Is Warning That the Election Will Be Rigged. So Did John McCain in 2008.Trump’s attacks on the legitimacy of our democracy are dangerous. They’re also one of the most traditionally “Republican” aspects of his campaign.
    By Eric Levitz
  47. the national interest
    Donald Trump Refuses to Endorse Paul Ryan, John McCain, Kelly AyotteOn the one hand, he’s crazy, but on the other hand, he’s vengeful.
    By Jonathan Chait
  48. Donald Trump Keeps Hitting Khans, Parents to Army Captain Killed in IraqThe parents of a fallen U.S. Army captain appeared on TV again Monday morning, and Trump tweeted his disapproval.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  49. Convention Bounce: A Love That Doesn’t Always LastJust ask Jimmy Carter — or John McCain.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. early and often
    George W. Bush Steps in to Aid Trump-Afflicted Republican SenatorsThe former president is fundraising for John McCain, Kelly Ayotte, and other senators in competitive races.
    By Jonah Shepp
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