After more than 15 years of espousing racist views in Congress, the representative from Iowa is finally seeing consequences. By Jane Coaston.

Some Republicans accused their Muslim colleague of being more loyal to Islam than the US constitution.

The president's prominent GOP critics on Capitol Hill are close to completing their Senate careers, raising the question of who — if anyone — will take their place as willing to publicly criticize Trump.

On Friday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request to reinstate an unlawful effort to prevent many refugees from seeking asylum in the United States. This order is not surprising, as the Trump administration’s arguments are so weak that they literally were rejected by the judge who wrote infamous Bush era memos authorizing torture.

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

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.

GOP voter suppression is the best answer to significant discrepancies between exit polls and actual vote counts. There’s a fascinating history to what Joe Madison calls “James Crow, Esq., voting suppression”—and that history tells us what we can do to solve the problem of Republicans using the Help America Vote Act to block people from voting in largely Democratic areas.It started with the 2000 election “debacle” in Florida.

Stephen Coss, the marvelous historian who writes from Madison, Wisconsin, about the founding moments of the American experiment, responded to the dark machinations of Wisconsin Republicans—who have used a lame-duck session of the state legislature to disempower the Democrats elected on November 6 to serve as governor and attorney general—with a line from the greatest Republican.

What Republican legislators just did in Wisconsin – passing bills to strip key powers from the governor-elect, Tony Evers, and other newly elected Democratic officials – is a total betrayal of the people of Wisconsin and our nation’s democratic ideals.

An eight-year campaign to slash the IRS’s budget has left the agency understaffed, hamstrung, and operating with archaic equipment. The result: a hundred-billion-dollar heist. In the summer of 2008, William Pfeil made a startling discovery: Hundreds of foreign companies that operated in the U.S. weren’t paying U.S. taxes, and his employer, the Internal Revenue Service, had no idea. Under U.S. law, companies that do business in the Gulf of Mexico owe the American government a piece of what they make drilling for oil there or helping those that do.

As Donald Trump and his administration continue to be bogged down in federal and criminal investigations, the president is reportedly worried that Republican lawmakers and donors will begin to abandon him just two years into his term.

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'