Republican state lawmakers in Wisconsin acted illegally in December by stripping power from the state’s newly elected Democratic governor before he could take office, a judge ruled Thursday. A month after the November election, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature convened a lame-duck session to undercut incoming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. They confirmed 82 executive appointees nominated by outgoing Gov. Scott Walker, many without holding a single hearing, and they blocked the new governor from making administrative changes to state laws and from following through on key campaign promises...

An investigation by the fact-checking outlet Snopes found that several new local news websites are actually being launched by Republican consultants whose company is funded in part by the candidates the sites cover. Politico first reported last year that Tea Party-linked conservative activists Michael Patrick Leahy, Steve Gill and Christina Botteri were behind the "Tennessee Star,” a website that purported to be a local news website but mostly posted content licensed from groups linked to big Republican donors.

Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky says he'll vote in favor of a resolution to terminate President Trump's national emergency declaration with regards to the U.S.-Mexico border. Paul's support means the resolution will likely pass the Senate with bipartisan support and could force the president to issue his first veto.

It’s OK to believe in climate change and be Republican. Actually, it's OK to believe in climate change and be a good Republican. A few months ago, I had lunch with a senior Republican official in Arizona. The conversation shifted to the environment and renewable energy.

This is a moment of great peril for our democracy. Our country is deeply divided. Our national discourse has become coarse, indeed, poisonous. Disunity and dysfunction have paralyzed Congress. And while our attention is focused inward, the world spins on, new authoritarian regimes are born, old rivals spread their pernicious ideologies, and the space for freedom-loving peoples begins to contract violently. At last week’s Munich Security Conference, the prevailing sentiment among our closest allies is that the United States can no longer be counted on to champion liberal democracy or defend the world order we built.

Donald Trump is, by all measures, going to have a very difficult time winning a second term next November. He lost the popular vote in 2016 by almost 3 million votes. He's a deeply polarizing figure whose job approval ratings have never crested 50% in his presidency to date. He could face a serious primary challenge.

Cruz introduced a constitutional amendment that would allow only two terms for senators and three for members of the House of Representatives.

Michigan’s controversial political districts were drawn in secret by Republicans and written in part to help incumbents – and there’s nothing wrong with that, one of their chief architects testified Thursday.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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