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Planned Parenthood Wins Medicaid Victory In Supreme Court
Comey: If Trump Weren't President, He'd Be Indicted
NRA Spy Butina Accepts Plea Deal
FBI Probing North Carolina Election Fraud
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Joe Conason
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Trump's Meddling Sows Economic Trouble
By Steve Chapman
Neo-Nazis Praise NRA, Urging Militants To Join
By Timothy Johnson
GOP Purse Strings Held By Saudi Lobbyist
By Eli Clifton
Behind Mueller's Redactions, An Outline Of Trump-Russia Scandal
By Terry H. Schwadron

Top News

House GOP Leader Defends Trump On Russia
Kevin McCarthy took to Fox News to defend the Trump campaign's repeated, secretive interactions with Russian influence agents.
By Oliver Willis

White House Gave A Big 'Discount' To Banks That Abused Consumers
Mick Mulvaney used his tenure at the CFPB to do the bidding of corporations, not help consumers.
By Dan Desai Martin

National Memo Editor’s Blog

With Mueller, Patience Is Patriotic
By Joe Conason

Mueller Filing Blasts False Statements To Public
The latest memo strongly hints that Mueller cares about false statements made not only to investigators, but to the public as well.
By Matthew Chapman
Manafort's 5 Big Lies In Special Counsel Filing
Mueller laid out the case in a new court filing — and said his team could back it up with evidence, if need be.
By Cody Fenwick
Rudy Admits Mueller Questions Were 'Nightmare' For Trump
Rudy Giuliani told the Atlantic Mueller's questions "took him about three weeks to do what would normally take two days.”
By Alex Henderson
Report: Trump Expects Successors To Clean Up Deficit Mess
Trump is wreaking havoc on America's financial situation, but he just doesn't care.
By Dan Desai Martin
Saudis Used Veterans To Funnel Money To Trump
These transactions are exactly what the Emoluments clause sought to prevent.
By Cody Fenwick
Sen. Graham: 'I'd Be All Over' Trump Officials 'If They Were Democrats'
Remember when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was supposed to be one of the reasonable Republicans? Yeah, neither do I.
By Cody Fenwick

Money
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
Amazon's drawn-out search for another command post to rival the home base in Seattle appears to have been a stunt.
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
Prosecutors asked to probe dutch middlemen washing billions in dirty Kazakh cash for real estate deals in US and Europe.
By David Cay Johnston
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
Strategies that let super PACs delay revealing their donors until after the election are gaining popularity among both Democrats and Republicans.
By ProPublica

Health
A Yale Football Player Quits To Save His Brain
He sat out for a week and a half, but when he resumed practice, something was wrong. "I got very lightheaded and could barely feel my legs," he recalls.
By Steve Chapman
Trump Calls Halt To Medical Progress Over Stem Cell Research
Once again, the Trump administration is ready to sacrifice human health at the altar of anti-science extremism.
By Emily Crockett
How Doctors Shamed Arrogant NRA
The NRA tried to shut down doctors pushing for gun safety. It backfired and the gun extremists have been publicly shamed for their actions for a week and counting.
By Oliver Willis

Lifestyle
Danziger: Paging Dr. Frankenstein
By Jeff Danziger
SNL: Alec Baldwin Returns As Trump In Argentina
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: On Late Show, Manafort Auditons For Trump Pardon
By National Memo

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#EndorseThis: Colbert Volunteers For White House Chief Of Staff
Having heckled White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on his way out the revolving door, Trump was quickly humiliated.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Reviews Trump's Lame And Lonely G-20 Trip
Seth Meyers noticed how poorly the scandal-ridden Trump plays with his international peers at the G-20 meeting.
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: On Late Show, Manafort Auditons For Trump Pardon
By National Memo

THIS WEEK IN CRAZY

This Week In Crazy: Ross Douthat's WASP Sting, Scott Walker's Whining, And More
By Michael Lathrop
This Week In Crazy: Alex Jones Makes Incoherent Case For White Reparations
Eclipse apocalypse, white reparations, and a journalism crash course from a conspiracist blogger. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier
This Week In Crazy: David Crosby Faces Fire, Fury From Ted Nugent
Statue fetishists, blubbering neo-Nazis, and Cat Fight Fever. Welcome to This Week In Crazy.
By Brendan Gauthier

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POLITICS
Bringing the Future Back Into American Politics
By Froma Harrop
What Is Populist, Really?
GOP's 'Politically Correct' Indignation Is Rank Hypocrisy
OPINION
The Reckoning Arrives For Donald Trump, Fox News, And The GOP
By Eric Boehlert
Evangelical Leaders Still Support Trump -- But Will Lewd Remarks Repel Voters?
In 24 Years of Town Hall Debates, The Winners, The Losers, And The Weird
BOOKS
Michelle And Sheryl And That Itty-Bitty Swearword
By Connie Schultz
House Of Trump, House Of Putin: The Untold Story Of Donald Trump And The Russian Mafia
Comic Relief From Rick Wilson As We Await Trump's Exit

NATIONAL
Waging War On US Intelligence, Trump Abuses Declassification Process
By Caroline Orr
White House Officials Fear President Is 'Mentally Unraveling'
Surfing That Blue Wave: A Democrat With The 'Empathy Factor'
MONEY
America's Wealth Floods Into Already Wealthy Cities
By Froma Harrop
Human Rights Group Demands Probe Of Giuliani And Trump In Alleged Money-Laundering
The Hidden Money Funding The Midterms
LIFESTYLE
SNL: Alec Baldwin Returns As Trump In Argentina
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: On Late Show, Manafort Auditons For Trump Pardon
#EndorseThis: Our Fearful And Feckless Commander-in-Chief

WORLD
Trump Still Separating Families At Border
By Ginger Thompson
To Trump, Tear-Gassed Toddlers At Border Are 'Stone Cold Criminals'
Danziger: Prepare For The Wurst
HEALTH
A Yale Football Player Quits To Save His Brain
By Steve Chapman
Trump Calls Halt To Medical Progress Over Stem Cell Research
How Doctors Shamed Arrogant NRA
VIDEO
#EndorseThis: Colbert Volunteers For White House Chief Of Staff
By National Memo
#EndorseThis: Seth Meyers Reviews Trump's Lame And Lonely G-20 Trip
#EndorseThis: On Late Show, Manafort Auditons For Trump Pardon

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