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  1. post-millennials
    The Kids Aren’t Alt-RightThe long march of the conservative conquest of the Republican Party could finally be coming to an end.
    By Ed Kilgore
  2. racism
    GOP Congressman: Oh, So Now It’s ‘Offensive’ to Say Whites Are the Supreme Race?“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” congressman Steve King wants to know.
    By Eric Levitz
  3. lamar alexander
    Will Lame Duck Lamar Make Trouble for Trump and His Party?While Lamar Alexander represents a lost tradition of Republican bipartisanship and moderation, he’s probably too genteel and loyal to act as a gadfly.
    By Ed Kilgore
  4. voting rights
    Tim Scott Kills Confirmation of Judge Accused of Vote SuppressionThomas Farr has been a close associate of North Carolina’s Republican warriors against voting rights. Two GOP defections stopped his confirmation.
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. migrant caravan
    The GOP’s Caravan Propaganda Is Aiding Nazis for No Good ReasonTrump says that Democrats are orchestrating an invasion of the U.S., using migrants as their shock troops. Robert Bowers said the same of Jews.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. 2018 midterms
    White House Official: Trump Is Lying About Caravan to Manipulate His Voters“It doesn’t matter if it’s 100 percent accurate. This is the play.”
    By Eric Levitz
  7. the national interest
    A Defector From Conservatism With a Clear Vision of Trump’s RiseMax Boot’s Corrosion of Conservatism shrewdly mines the history of the conservative movement to learn how it went so badly.
    By Jonathan Chait
  8. politics
    McConnell Says Outrage Will ‘Blow Over’ and GOP Takeover of Courts Will ContinueThe Senate Majority leader has been enjoying his Kavanaugh confirmation victory lap, and says more conservative court stacking is on the way.
    By Chas Danner
  9. politics
    What Happened to Lindsey Graham?Once defined by his loathing for Trump, he’s now all-in for the president. Why?
    By Lisa Miller
  10. politics
    Ben Sasse Has Considered Leaving the GOP to Support the GOPThe senator’s self-proclaimed independence from the Republican Party and Trump continues to be a distinction without a difference.
    By Chas Danner
  11. the national interest
    Congressional Republicans Don’t Even Pretend to Stand up to Trump AnymoreWhatever restraining force the president’s party exerted against him has now almost completely dissipated.
    By Jonathan Chait
  12. gop donors
    The GOP Has No New Ideas Because Elderly Billionaires Own Its BrainRepublicans haven’t adapted their agenda to 21st century problems because their plutocratic paymasters don’t have any of those.
    By Eric Levitz
  13. rip
    Senator John McCain Dead at 81The iconic senator survived more than five years as a P.O.W. and more than three decades as a member of Congress.
    By Chas Danner
  14. west virginia
    The West Virginia GOP Just Impeached the State’s Entire Supreme CourtMeanwhile, the party’s attempt to skew a Supreme Court election in North Carolina hit a snag.
    By Eric Levitz
  15. midterms
    Indicted Congressman Chris Collins Ends Reelection CampaignThe New York Republican was arrested on Wednesday and charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
    By Chas Danner
  16. Yes, Normal Republican Elites Are a Threat to DemocracyBecause democracy is a threat to them.
    By Eric Levitz
  17. The GOP Raised Taxes on Churches to Fund Its Giveaway to the RichReligious institutions just discovered that Trump’s tax “cuts” actually imposed a complicated new tax on them.
    By Eric Levitz
  18. We’re Getting a Taste of the Backlash Mass Deportation Would CreateKids in cages at the border have aroused the conscience of the country and put the GOP in a bind. Mass deportation of the undocumented would be worse.
    By Ed Kilgore
  19. Stacey Abrams and the New Democratic Coalition in the SouthIn the past, southern black Democratic voters were expected to loyally support white centrist candidates with rare representation. That has changed.
    By Ed Kilgore
  20. Red-State Teachers Just Scored a Victory That Could Transform the GOPLast night in Kentucky, teachers showed GOP lawmakers that supporting education cuts could cost them — in a Republican primary.
    By Eric Levitz
  21. What Hurts a Political Opponent in the Age of Trump?In a news cycle jammed with scandals, party operatives are trying to figure out what sticks with voters anymore — and how to unearth those things.
    By Gabriel Debenedetti
  22. Actually, Pence’s Toadying Is His Best Shot at Becoming PresidentJournalist Matt Bai tries to make the case that Pence has no future in presidential politics. That’s likely wrong.
    By Ed Kilgore
  23. the national interest
    The GOP’s Never-Trumpers Are Really Just Never-DemocratsThe party’s “moderates” have become the most partisan of them all.
    By Jonathan Chait
  24. russia investigation
    Republicans Barely React as Trump Goes After MuellerThe president may be laying the groundwork to end the Russia investigation. The GOP is still looking the other way.
    By Chas Danner
  25. the national interest
    New Survey Shows Young People Are Staying Liberal, Conservatives Are Dying OffIn the long run, we’re all dead, but Republicans are especially dead.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. There Is No ‘Epidemic of Mass School Shootings’And it’s dangerous for progressives to suggest otherwise.
    By Eric Levitz
  27. Georgia GOP: No Tax Cut for Delta Unless It Gives NRA Members DiscountsThe airline severed ties with the NRA last week. Now, Georgia’s lieutenant governor is threatening to kill a jet-fuel subsidy in retaliation.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. Why Rural America Controls the Debates Over Guns and ImmigrationOur constitutional system gives disproportionate influence to the nonmetro areas that control the party controlling Washington.
    By Ed Kilgore
  29. Trump Has No Infrastructure Plan. Blame the GOP.Republicans’ obsession with ever-lower taxes — and ever-higher defense spending — makes it impossible to fund the government’s most basic functions.
    By Eric Levitz
  30. Republicans Poised for Collapse in New YorkThe historic unpopularity of Trump and the GOP tax bill have left the party without a single statewide candidate at the start of 2018.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. Senate Republicans Accidentally Killed Some of Their Donors’ Favorite Tax BreaksPassing a tax bill that you wrote over lunch — and never actually read — appears to have some downsides.
    By Eric Levitz
  32. Oklahoma Tried the GOP’s Tax Agenda. Now, It’s Electing Democrats.As Republican tax cuts decimate the Sooner State, Democrats keep winning special elections in its deep-red districts.
    By Eric Levitz
  33. What Should Be Done With Jeff Flake and the Anti-Trump Republican Politician?Three Daily Intel writers chat about how Democrats should think about Jeff Flake’s retirement.
    By Jonathan Chait, Ed Kilgore, and Eric Levitz
  34. Corker Calls White House an ‘Adult Day Care Center’ in Response to Trump AttackThe president may come to regret going after a powerful Republican with nothing to lose.
    By Chas Danner
  35. The GOP Donor Class Is a Pack of Ungrateful BratsThe GOP has sacrificed its own political interests — and the public’s most basic regulatory protections — to advance its donors’ radical agenda.
    By Eric Levitz
  36. Trump Tries to Make Tax Cuts for Rich People Sound PopulistTo get his tax “reform” plan through Congress, Trump will have to pull off his most challenging con yet.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. How the GOP Can Prove It Isn’t a Party for White SupremacistsRepublicans need to do a lot more than say the right words about Nazis to atone for their role in the revival of the racist right.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. Trump Tax Plan Would Be Bad for Those Who Don’t Own Yachts, Study Basically SaysOne version of Trump’s (vague) plan would deliver 76 percent of its benefits to the top one percent — while raising taxes on some in the middle class.
    By Eric Levitz
  39. Trump Sees Alienating Our European Allies As an End in ItselfAnd four other frightening lessons from the president’s decision to exit the Paris climate agreement.
    By Eric Levitz
  40. the new far right
    Andrew Sullivan: Why the Reactionary Right Must Be Taken SeriouslyAn open-minded inquiry into the close-minded ideology that is the most dominant political force of our time — and can no longer be ignored.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  41. Trump Is Making the GOP Heinously Unpopular AgainA new poll finds that Americans like the Republican Party a lot less when it’s in power.
    By Eric Levitz
  42. ‘Small Government’ Conservatism Is Killing Republican VotersAnd they’re starting to figure that out.
    By Eric Levitz
  43. The Reality of Climate Change Is Catching Up to the GOPSeventeen House Republicans — many from areas already suffering the consequences of climate change — have signed onto a call for action.
    By Eric Levitz
  44. Report: Trump Team Preparing $10.5 Trillion in Budget CutsFunding for renewable energy, preventing domestic violence, the arts and humanities, and civil-rights enforcement would all be slashed or eliminated.
    By Eric Levitz
  45. Will Donald Trump Push the GOP Left on Health Care?He is making liberal noises on drug prices, maternity leave, and more. That might mean something — or nothing.
    By Eric Levitz
  46. How to Waste a Trifecta: Lessons From the George W. Bush AdministrationIt is far too early to know if today’s triumphant Republicans will succeed in consolidating their power, or self-destruct like they did under Bush.
    By Ed Kilgore
  47. The GOP Wants to Drain the Swamp of Wall Street’s Enemies by Any Means NecessaryRichard Cordray can’t be fired without cause from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau until 2018. But the GOP is determined to find a cause.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. Trump Victory Gives Christian Right a Second WindThe crisis Trump’s candidacy produced in some conservative evangelical circles abated with his election victory. But some issues still remain.
    By Ed Kilgore
  49. 3 Paths the Trump Administration Can TakeThe new administration could plausibly be purely disruptive, engineer a conservative policy revolution, or remake the GOP into a populist party.
    By Ed Kilgore
  50. John Kasich Is Voting Like It’s 2008Cruz and Rubio didn’t mention Trump by name, but appeared to have cast ballots for him in early voting.
    By Jen Kirby
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