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Rep. Elizabeth Esty won’t seek reelection after staffer harassment controversy

Trump is reportedly calling up Fox personalities during White House meetings

The hacked emails at the center of Mueller’s Russia investigation, explained

David Shulkin says he was fired. The White House says he quit.

India and Pakistan are quietly making nuclear war more likely

Both countries are arming their submarines with nukes.

Poll: the kids are not all right with Donald Trump

Fox News host Laura Ingraham taking break amid boycott

The 4 stories that drove this week in politics

Why the campaign to force Scott Pruitt out of the EPA could backfire

Trump-era politics is a surreal nightmare and we can’t wake up

No, Donald Trump can’t just use Pentagon money for his border wall

I asked 11 legal experts if Trump’s lawyer obstructed justice

The constitutional debate around protecting Robert Mueller’s job, explained

Ousted VA secretary blasts privatization in a New York Times op-ed

Why Trump’s base probably doesn’t care about corruption

Trump’s Cabinet, ranked by how likely they are to get fired

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin joins the very long list of high-profile White House departures

David Shulkin is out as secretary of veterans affairs

Every woman in the Senate just demanded a vote on sexual harassment legislation

A judge just ruled a lawsuit accusing Trump of violating the Constitution can go forward

How Trump helped inspire a wave of strict new abortion laws

Bombshell Times report: Trump’s lawyer secretly floated pardons to Manafort and Flynn

10 legal experts on why Trump can’t pardon his way out of the Russia investigation

The citizenship question on the 2020 census, explained

George Nader, one of the Trump-Russia investigation’s most mysterious figures, explained

Democrats can win a whole lot of House seats in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump wants Rob Porter back. That’s how little he cares about violence against women.

Mitt Romney: “DACA kids shouldn’t all be allowed to stay in the country legally”

Veep creator Armando Iannucci on Trump, democracy, and his new dark comedy about Stalin

A new report says Democrats need to win the popular vote by 11 points to retake the House

The next Republican civil war will be the Mississippi Senate race

Trump’s legal team is in shambles. The timing is terrible.

President Sisi will win Egypt’s election. But here’s why he should be worried. 

There are rumblings of dissent in the Arab world’s most populous country.

Stormy Daniels still won’t say if she’s got photos of Trump

Stormy Daniels’s story of intimidation from a Trump associate fits a 20-year pattern

How Fox News turned the March for Our Lives into an attack on the 2nd Amendment

The Summer Zervos sexual assault allegations and lawsuit against Donald Trump, explained

Stormy Daniels makes Donald Trump sound a lot like Harvey Weinstein

Cambridge Analytica’s “psychographic microtargeting”: what’s bullshit and what’s legit

It sure seems like Trump just subtweeted Stormy Daniels