Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast Evidence is growing that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes engaged in an elaborate charade last week when he went to brief the president about what he spun as an alarming development: The U.S. government had spied on some of his top…

X Story Stream recent articles "Dare I suggest," writes the economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, "that the quality of governance in this country has taken a downward turn of late?" Or as Casey Stengel, while managing the New York Mets on their way to a 40-120 season in 1962, reportedly asked, "Can't…

X Story Stream recent articles WASHINGTON -- Will anyone be left standing when the Republican circular firing squad runs out of ammunition? Or will everybody just reload and keep blasting away, leaving Democrats to clean up the bloody mess? The political moment we're living through is truly…

By announcing on Monday his intention to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, Bill Nelson raised questions about the judge's path to 60 votes. | AP Photo MIAMI — Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch seemed to be on track for a full Senate vote when a key Democrat helped throw it in doubt:…

AP Photo Democrats are heading toward an epic miscalculation in filibustering Neil Gorsuch. Liam Donovan (@lpdonovan) is a former NRSC staffer who currently serves as director of legislative and political affairs for a D.C.-based trade association. After three days of breezily proficient testimony…

NEWARK, OHIO—James Cassidy didn’t need the director of the FBI to tell him Barack Obama never wiretapped Donald Trump at Trump Tower. Cassidy knew from the start that Trump made the whole thing up. He was happy the president lied. “He’s ruffling every feather in Washington that he can ruffle. These…

Infowars A man based in Scotland has revealed to BuzzFeed News how he tricked the right-wing conspiracy site Infowars into publishing a completely fake report about president-elect Donald Trump. Markus Muir, a 27-year-old marketing professional from Glasgow, sent direct messages on Twitter to…

The Right Is Building A New Media "Upside Down" To Tell Trump’s Story Armed with its own set of facts, the right has created a parallel media universe that's risen all the way with Trump to the White House. At last Thursday’s DeploraBall, Gateway Pundit editor Jim Hoft stepped on to the event…

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, with former President Harry S. Truman, who had tried to establish national health insurance, seated at right. Credit... LBJ Library When it was created more than a half century ago, Medicaid almost escaped notice.…

A polarized America As this past week’s battle over health care proves, the great divide in American politics shows no sign of healing, or even of quieting down. Our Cover Story is reported by “Sunday Morning” Senior Contributor Ted Koppel: Increasingly, we Americans occupy alternate universes.…

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The Trump administration is going to great lengths to distance itself from former associates in the face of an F.B.I. investigation into whether there were connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Senate investigators plan to question Jared…

The House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, walking to a Republican caucus meeting after pulling the party’s health bill off the floor on Friday. Credit... Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Whenever a major conservative plan in Washington has collapsed, blame has usually been fairly easy to…

Paul Ryan spoke to reporters on Friday about withdrawing the health care act. Credit... Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times WASHINGTON — For two days in January, all seemed right in the Republican Party. Gathered in Philadelphia for their annual congressional retreat, less than a week after…

How many Americans does it take to keep President Trump and his family in the lifestyle to which they are accustomed? Well, think of it this way. The Post this week had a scoop on the Secret Service requesting an additional $60 million in its next budget: $27 million to protect the president’s wife…

The stunning collapse of the Republican health-care bill now imperils the rest of President Trump’s ambitious congressional agenda, with few prospects for quick victory on tax revisions, construction projects or a host of other issues in the months ahead despite complete GOP control of government.…

Sixty-five days do not ultimately define a presidency, especially the first 65 of a new president’s first term. That’s as true for President Trump as for other presidents who suffered early setbacks. But without some serious stocktaking inside the White House after the failed effort to replace the…

Donald Trump was elected in large part on one, loud promise: I know how to make deals these normal politicians don't. Part of that mystique — as outlined in his best-selling book “The Art of the Deal” — is the willingness to call his rival's bluff, to put his cards on the table and ask everyone else…

Although House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) acknowledged Friday that “Obamacare is the law of the land,” its survival or collapse in practical terms now rests with decisions that are in President Trump’s hands. In the coming weeks and months, the White House and a highly conservative health and…

exclusive Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast Hours before the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee announced his shocking claims about surveillance of the Trump transition team on Wednesday morning, he practically disappeared. Rep. Devin Nunes was traveling with a senior committee staffer…

In, and Out, Like Flynn Why a former three-star general may be turning state’s evidence At the center of today’s news is Michael Flynn , a retired three-star U.S. Army general, who later worked on Trump’s campaign as a private citizen, and then served for 24 days as National Security Advisor. While…

Donald Trump suggested that the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare) was a clever ruse by our first Black president and his Democratic friends to have a successful health-care system in place for his own presidency, but one that was set up to fail in the first year of the next president's term.…

Uber, Lyft, and taxi drivers wear a lot of different hats. On any given shift, they can be therapists, confidants, or even boxing-match referees. Often they see us at our most stressed or vulnerable. Or, um, drunk. In short, the job is much more than just carting people from point A to point B.…

Yuri Gripas / Reuters Seven years and three days ago, the House of Representatives grumblingly voted to approve the Senate’s version of the Affordable Care Act. Democrats in the House were displeased by many of the changes introduced by Senate Democrats. But in the interval after Senate passage, the…

Boris Epshteyn’s rise to a position of prominence in the Trump White House reveals how the president has rewarded his loyalists. | AP Photo White House official Boris Epshteyn, a combative Trump loyalist tasked with plugging the president’s message on television, threatened earlier this year to pull…

President Donald Trump is doing just great after the Republican healthcare bill failed to make it to a vote Friday, thank you so much. No heads will roll for that humiliating defeat. Especially not the Just Cuts noggin of House Speaker Paul Ryan. It's all love and affection and onwards and upwards…

James Harris Jackson at Manhattan Criminal Court in March. Credit... Pool photo by Steven Hirsch Since he was a boy he has hated black men. A bitter hatred of black men that boiled in his mind and consumed him. Then last week, apparently, he decided to kill them. This was the mind-set investigators…

WG600; Carolyn Kaster / AP; NASA E ven in triumph, Kellyanne Conway nursed a grudge. As she reflected on Donald Trump’s November victory, she made clear that she hadn’t forgotten how people treated her back when they thought she was a sure loser. Their attitude wasn’t one of outright rudeness or…

Maureen Dowd Donald, This I Will Tell You Donald, you said you could shake up Washington and make it work again. Instead, you’re the one who got worked over. Credit... Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Dear Donald, We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. You know how…

The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by…

Donald Trump Jr., his wife Vanessa and their children as well as Eric Trump and his wife Lara Trump arrive at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, January 19, 2017. By Chris Kleponis/Pool/Getty Images. Two months into our current historical experiment, each week of Donald Trump’s young presidency appears…

Bad health-care president, good health-care president. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images With the collapse of the House health-care bill, the cause of repealing Obamacare, a right-wing obsession for seven years and a day, has died. The flame will never be fully extinguished in the hearts of the…

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images Let’s be clear about what happened here. The American Health Care Act failed because it was a terrible piece of legislation. It would have thrown 24 million people off insurance and raised deductibles for millions more — and the savings would’ve gone to pay for tax…

"Their heart was not in the healthcare battle,” said a top Republican who was in meetings with President Donald Trump and his team but declined to be identified. | Getty While President Donald Trump’s first major legislative push hurtled toward a major defeat, one of his top advisers, his son-in-law…

Rep. Mark Sanford speaks about Obamacare repeal and replacement with members of the House Freedom Caucus during a news conference on Capitol Hill on March 7. Mark Wilson/Getty Images After pulling his wildly unpopular American Health Care Act, House Speaker Paul Ryan tried to put a brave face on a…

President Trump in the Oval Office on Friday. He has sought to assign blame for Republicans’ failure to advance a bill replacing the Affordable Care Act. Credit... Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump ignites a lot of fights, but his failure to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the…

Subscribe During last year’s Republican primaries, Marco Rubio famously described Donald Trump as a “ con artist .” But this week, with the disastrous rollout of the American Health Care Act, we’ve seen the con artist get played by an even slicker, more professional grifter. And Trump is not alone…

Getty It was bad policy, not poor tactics or negotiating skills, that doomed the GOP’s efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare. Harold Pollack teaches social service administration at the University of Chicago. A fellow of the Century Foundation, he’s a regular contributor to the Washington Post’s…

After seven years, House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Trump announced Friday that Republican attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have, at least temporarily, been laid to rest . But that doesn’t mean that health care reform is over. Far from it. When asked Friday whether it was…

Winning? Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images With hours to go before the House is set to (finally) vote on Paul Ryan’s health-care bill, the Trump administration is putting a full-court press on recalcitrant Republicans to rally votes. Last night, the White House sent senior officials including Chief of…