Here’s the inside look at the moment that solidified the House’s fate in the 2018 midterm elections. By Katie Glueck, Alex Roarty, Adam Wollner.

Among the factors behind Walker's defeat: a massive Dane County vote and decline in support from independents. By Craig Gilbert.

The GOP has become a vast repository of conspiracy theories, fake news, false accusations and paranoid fantasies.

Anita Earls has been the North Carolina GOP’s chief antagonist in the courtroom. Now she’s running for a seat on the state Supreme Court as a GOP threat to pack the court looms.

Oklahoma lawmakers have passed legislation that would require officials to consider abortion to be murder. The Tulsa World reported a law was passed Monday afternoon that would force any state official to defy the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized privacy for the procedure. It was also done without any discussion or debate on the House floor.

Georgia secretary of state and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp improperly purged more than 340,000 voters from the state’s registration rolls, an investigation charges. Greg Palast, a journalist and the director of the Palast Investigative Fund, said an analysis he commissioned found 340,134 voters were removed from the rolls on the grounds that they had moved – but they actually still live at the address where they are registered.

Republicans are repeatedly portraying Democrats as a

They'll save Trump every time, no matter what he's done. By Damon Linker.

As Hurricane Florence took hold of the Carolinas in mid-September, partisan talk swirled like the winds. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi blamed the Trump administration for listening to “naysayers” who didn't want to switch to clean energy. Fossil fuels, she told reporters, absolutely contributed to the severity of the hurricane: “This is something that we have to look at in a big way, and it’s not served by denial of the facts.”

Party polarization is even worse than most people think, according to a new Michigan State University study. And neither party can shoulder the blame, as it doesn’t matter which party is in charge, said Zachary Neal, associate professor of psychology and global urban studies. “What I’ve found is that polarization has been steadily getting worse since the early 1970s,” he said.

People who have studied the extremist right as a historical and sociopolitical phenomenon in depth are acutely aware of a simple truth: America has been very, very lucky so far when it comes to fascistic political movements. And now, with the arrival of the Donald Trump 2016 phenomenon, that luck may be about to run out... By David Neiwert.

Every four years the political parties describe the impending presidential election as a historic event – and every once in a while it's true. By Sean Wilentz.

William Ruckelshaus, who this week will receive the presidential medal of freedom, says candidates are harming US’s reputation ahead of Paris climate talks. By Oliver Milman. (Nov. 23)

The coverage of our elections has a fairy tale feel to it. Our national press pretends that they are dealing with men and women of principle, offering carefully thought-out solutions to our nation’s problems, rather than groveling servants of billionaires who finance their campaigns; and that the voters these candidates try to persuade in the primaries are well-informed and well-meaning Americans and not people who by and large get their information from Fox TV and hate radio. By Charles Simic.

How a group of radical conservatives ousted John Boehner—and pushed Congress to the right. By Ryan Lizza.

Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States presents many constitutional quandaries. By Amy Davidson.

Our In-Depth Investigation of the Propaganda Cycle. By Heather Hogan. (Sept. 2)

Will the GOP as we know it survive 2016? By David Frum.

While he has very little support among party elites, Cruz seems to believe that Republican voters are hungry for a candidate who will challenge their party’s foreign policy at the ideological level. By Jonathan Chait.

Unpopular in Senate, Ted Cruz has strong backing among House conservatives. By Anna Palmer and Lauren French.

The war on women gets personal — and even more hateful — in New Hampshire. By Amanda Marcotte.

How the campaign's biggest laugh turned ugly in 2015. By Matt Taibbi.

A year ago, Trump was a joke and Paul was rising. But now that their fortunes have flipped, is it fair to say libertarianism is finally dead? By Nick Gillespie.

In their own voices, a tale of a bizarre beginning to the Republican presidential race. By Dan Balz, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Matea Gold. (Jan. 3)

On inherited power, wealthy patrons, religion and politics, populism, and more. By Alissa Ardito.

Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul dismisses Ted Cruz's effort to win over his father Ron Paul's 2012 supporters, saying that group of libertarian-minded voters aren't "very excited about making the sand glow in the Middle East." By Reid J. Epstein.

Birthers, internet commenters, and the "mantle of anger" take their places on stage. By Pema Levy and Patrick Caldwell.

The Ivy League-educated, white-shoe lawyer running for the Republican nomination is now being forced to defend his American-ness. It’s fun to watch. By Jeb Lund.

The animosity between the two men began after Mr. Cruz invoked Mr. Dole’s name as an example of the missteps the party had made with past presidential nominees — as in, “Remember President Dole? Remember President McCain? Remember President Romney?” By Maggie Haberman.

There were stays at boutique hotels featuring rooftop pools, private soirees at members-only, jacket-and-tie clubs and fundraisers at the Four Seasons, the St. Regis and the Mandarin Oriental. By Michelle Conlin and Grant Smith.

If Trump is a judgment on the GOP, he's also a judgment on conservative Christians. By Rod Dreher.

Jeb Bush quit the race after poor showings in South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa.

Three wins in a row for the billionaire businessman, and in Nevada he breaks that 'ceiling'

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will endorse Ted Cruz, giving the Lone State senator his highest-ranking political endorsement thus far in the presidential race

Senator Marco Rubio has persuaded wealthy donors, Republican Party elders and his colleagues in Congress that he represents their best chance to overtake the seemingly invincible force that is Donald J. Trump...