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What to Expect from the Mueller Report - Was Obama the First President Without a Full Year of Three Percent GDP Growth? - What to Make of the Barr Letter and the Mueller Report - Evaluating Claims About Drug Seizures at the Border - Mysterious New Construction Underway at North Korea's Sohae Launch Facility - Michael Cohen: Lawyer, Fixer, Partner in Crime? - The National Debt in Five Charts - Interview: The State of the Union and the Shutdown - PODCAST: State of the Shutdown - Why a Solution to the Government Shutdown Remains Elusive - PODCAST: Peak Trump with David Stockman - Virginia Democrats Achieve Simultaneous Faceplant - Mark Harris Calls for New NC09 Election - PODCAST: The Dramatic NC09 Ballot Fraud Hearing - Is the Government Listening to Your Phone Calls? - What Would Christopher Hitchens Have Made of the Trump Presidency? - How Washington Keeps Piling on Debt - How an Ascendant Left Could Be Democrats’ Undoing - A Brief History of the State of the Union - Can President Trump Declare a National Emergency and Build the Wall? - The Government Shutdown Fight Explained - PODCAST: Danielle Pletka on Trump's Syria Withdrawal and Mattis' Resignation - The Government Shutdown Fight Explained - READ: Defense Secretary James Mattis Resignation Letter - PODCAST: The Wild Michael Flynn Sentencing Hearing - READ: Mueller Court Documents Detailing FBI's Interview of Michael Flynn - Mueller’s Filings in the Cohen and Flynn Cases Hint at 'Collusion' - The Election Fraud Allegations in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District Explained - Everything You Wanted to Know About the Bush 41 Locomotive - PODCAST: Trump and the Economy Part II (with Jim Rickards) - Testing Slideshow - What to Make of Michael Flynn's Sentencing Memo - READ: Michael Flynn's Sentencing Memo - What to Make of Michael Cohen's Latest Guilty Plea - PODCAST: Trump and the Economy - Why the Guardian Report of 'Secret Talks' Between Manafort and Assange Could Be Significant - Trump Answered Mueller's Questions, Is the Russia Probe Winding Up? - Politics is Falling Apart - Can Trump End Birthright Citizenship With an Executive Order? - Axis of Reason: Crazies & The Caravan - Axis of Reason: The Midterms Cometh - Will Jamal Khashoggi's Murder Upend the U.S.-Saudi Alliance? - Axis of Reason Podcast: The Death of Jamal Kashoggi (Guest: Adam Zagorin) - A Mysterious Computer Server May Hold the Key to Unraveling Whether There Was 'Collusion' Between Trump and Russia - Axis of Reason Podcast -- "Nevermore Never Trump" - INTERVIEW: Griffin and Manson on Kavanaugh, Rising China Tensions - Trump's Trade War with China Explained - With the FBI Investigation Complete, Kavanaugh Confirmation Fight Nears End - Trump’s NAFTA Deal Explained - A Wild Week in the Kavanaugh Confirmation Saga - What to Expect From the Brett Kavanaugh Hearing - I Know Brett Kavanaugh. What is happening is so very wrong. - Scientists Gave Octopuses Ecstasy, Here's What Happened - OPINION: Brett Kavanaugh Deserves the Benefit of the Doubt - Live Cam: Hurricane Florence from 34 Miles Offshore - Hurricane Florence Explained - INTERVIEW: Taylor Griffin on Hurricane Florence, the Anonymous Op-Ed, and Obama's Return to the Campaign Trail - What to Make of the Anonymous Anti-Trump NY Times Op-Ed - An Insider’s Guide to the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearing - The Midterm Elections: Where Things Stand - Journalism is an Honorable Profession Worthy of Defending - INTERVIEW: Taylor Griffin on John McCain's Legacy - Trump's NAFTA Agreement with Mexico Explained - Remembering John McCain - Trump, Cohen and the Hush Money Explained - FACT CHECK: Did Former NSA Chief Mike Rogers Warn Trump of a 'Deep State' Plot? - Rosenstein Told Trump He’s Not a ‘Target’ of Probes, That May Not Mean Much - China's Belt and Road and the Geopolitics of Infrastructure - Ohio's 12th District Special Election Explained - Cohen Versus Trump - Is the FISA Court Really Just a ‘Rubber Stamp’? - What to Make of the Carter Page FISA Warrants - Even Republicans Are Furious About Trump's Press Conference With Putin. Here's What They're Saying. - Putin's Curious Non-Denial About Dirt on Trump - What to Expect from the Trump-Putin Summit - Mysterious 2,000-Year-Old Sarcophagus Discovered in Egypt - VIDEO: Why the Supreme Court Upheld Trump's Travel Ban - Why the Supreme Court Upheld President Trump's Travel Ban - The Family Separation Controversy Explained - Ten Times North Korea Agreed to Denuclearization in the Past - The Trump-Kim Summit Explained - Can President Trump Pardon Himself? - Did the FBI 'Spy' on the Trump Campaign? - Why North Korea is Threatening to Pull the Plug on the Trump-Kim Summit - The FBI's Trump-Russia Informant Explained - The Science Behind Why You Hear Laurel or Yanny - What Trump’s Decision to Withdraw From the Iran Deal Means - Why Being Donald Trump's Lawyer is the Worst Job in the World - Interview: Taylor Griffin Breaks Down the Mueller Investigation with Stacy Washington - Russian Disinformation and the Syria Strikes - As Trump Considers Response to Syria Gas Attack, No Easy Options - Rosenstein Bolsters Team, Names Veteran Prosecutor Ed O’Callaghan as His Right Hand - China’s Prototype Space Station is About to Fall From the Sky - Why the U.S. Just Expelled Dozens of Russian Diplomats - Why Trump Fired Rex Tillerson - FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's Firing Explained - The Rev. Billy Graham and Civil Rights - Why Demands for “Reciprocal” Trade Defy Basic Economics - What to Make (and not make) of Mueller's Indictment of 13 Russians - Is The Trump-Russia Connection a Conspiracy, Or Inexperience? - Why Comey Was Really Fired and Five Other Things That Matter After Comey's Testimony - What Sessions Didn't Say May Be More Revealing Than What He Did - Why Mueller is Investigating Trump's Business Ties - Does a New Study Prove the DNC Hack Was An Inside Job? - The FBI Was Denied Access to the DNC’s Server. But, Does it Matter? - The Mueller Indictments Explained - What Does Michael Flynn’s Guilty Plea Mean for Trump? - A Complete Guide to Russian Social Media Disruption Campaigns - Can a President obstruct Justice? It might not matter. - Report: Donald Trump Jr. Asked Russian Lawyer for Dirt on Hillary - Trump and Russia: Choose Your Own Adventure Style - The War on Robert Mueller - The Case for Mueller - Forgetting The Past: The U.S. Response to Russian Disinformation - Mueller, the FBI and That 'Insurance Policy' Text - The Nunes Memo: 12 Things to Know - The Nunes Memo: A Quick Reference - Carter Page, Christopher Steele and the Memos - Why Didn't the Fed's Quantitative Easing Program Cause Massive Inflation? - Foreign agents infiltrate U.S. government; where's the outrage? - READ: Full Text of the Nunes Memo - After the State of the Union, Divisions Remain - #ReleaseTheMemo and the New Politics of Disinformation - What Trump Needs to Accomplish in the State of the Union - A Tale of Two Decisions - The Government is on the Brink of a Shutdown, Here's Why - Why a U.S. Missile Strike on North Korea Would End Badly - Why 'Fire and Fury' Made Trump Erupt - The Science of Hangovers - Five Things About Christmas You Probably Didn’t Know - Of Course Die Hard is a Christmas Movie - In Attacking Politico's Hezbollah Bombshell, Team Obama Fires Blanks - Five Things People Misunderstand About the Tax Bill - Clinton, Russia and the Uranium Deal Explained - The Republicans After Alabama - How Progressives Perpetuate the Concept of a Deep State - What's Going to With the Alabama Senate Race? It's hard to tell. - But, Her Emails! - What You Need to Know About Jeff Sessions' Recusal - How 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' Became One of the Most Beloved Holiday Albums of All Time - Why is Trump's Decision to Move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem Controversial? - What We Know About North Korea’s Big New Missile - What to Take From the Brian Ross Face-Plant - The Year That Truth Died - James O'Keefe and the Fakeness of "Fake News" - Is There a Mole at the NSA, or Is It Russian Disinformation? - What the Bizarre Defense of Roy Moore Says About Our Current Political Moment - The North Korea Nuclear Threat Explained - The GOP Tax Plan Will Grow the Economy...and the Trade Deficit Too - Reflections on September 11, 2001 - Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes More Intense? - Does the American Constitution allow for the rise of a dictator? - North Korea's Nuclear Test Explained - Jim Mattis and the Heroes of Houston Remind Us Who We Are - Are there legal grounds to disobey a presidential order to launch a nuclear weapon? - A Tale of Two Trumps - Eclipses Echo Through History - The Great American Eclipse: Complete Guide - The Agony and the Alt Right - What Steve Bannon Leaves Behind - Here's What's Going On With North Korea - Mattis on Ethics - The Incredible Shrinking Trump Presidency - Sign of the Times - Make Applicants Great Again - The Ten Day King - What is "Skinny Repeal"? - Why a "Made in America" Mentality Could Make Us Less Safe - The American Health Care Act: An Autopsy - If He's Innocent, a Special Prosector Will Help Trump - Trump, Comey and Executive Privilege Explained - Dershowitz: Trump Didn't Obstruct Justice in Firing Comey - A Veteran Journalist Explains How the News Media Really Works - Why the Supreme Court is Allowing Trump's Travel Ban to Go Into Effect - Trump's Travel Ban and the Perils of Populism - The Trump-Russia Memos, Roughly Explained - Why Sen. Elizabeth Warren Was 'Silenced' - A Veteran Journalist Explains How the News Media Really Works - A Short Note on the Shooting in Washington - What to Expect from Former FBI Director James Comey's Testimony - The Surprising Reason for the White House's Oval-shaped Rooms - Jared Kushner's Role in the FBI’s Russia Probe Explained - How to Prank an Email Scammer - Did Obama or Bush, like Trump, ever meet with Russians in the Oval Office? - Are all conversations in the Oval Office recorded? - As Trump Steps Onto World Stage, Republicans in Washington Fret - How White House Counsel Don McGahn's Uncle Helped Trump Do a Deal with the Mob - The Comey Memo, Watergate and Impeachment - Did President Trump Disclose Classified Information to Russia? - The Fallout from Trump's Decision to Fire James Comey Explained - Can Trump's Tax Plan Bend the Laffer Curve? - Here's Why the House GOP Obamacare Replacement Faces Major Hurdles in the Senate - Why Did The Russians Make So Much Noise? - A Southerner Reflects on Our Current Political Moment (Part II) - CIA Director Declares War on Wikileaks - Trump's Syria Airstrike Explained - A Southerner Reflects on Our Current Political Moment - Ten Questions with James Rosen, Fox News Chief Washington Correspondent - What Susan Rice Unmasking Trump Names in Intel Reports Means - What We Can Take from the GOP Obamacare Repeal Debacle - House Intel Chair: Trump Team Surveilled -- Was Trump Right After All? - What do the Trump tax returns tell us? Not much. - Real Estate Deals: The Other Trump-Russia Story - Why CBO's Estimate of GOP Obamacare Replacement May Overstate Negative Effects - Nothing Unusual About Trump Asking U.S. Attorneys to Resign - The Story Behind Trump's Claim that Obama Tapped His Phone - Here's Four Reasons Obamacare Repeal is Turning Out to Be So Hard - Donald Trump's Big, Beautiful War on the Media - Could Russia Be Behind the Wikileaks Dump of CIA documents? - The Berkeley Controversy Over Milo Yiannopoulos Has Echoes in Legal History - What to make (and not make) of Michael Flynn's resignation - Trump and Russia: Smoke, Mirrors and Fire - re: The President’s Debt Tweet - The Oscar Speech We Want to Hear (but probably won't) - Trump’s War on the Media Enters a New Phase - NASA Discovers Seven New Earths - 7 Best Quotes from Marco Rubio's Brilliant Response to Elizabeth Warren - In Defense of Sean Spicer - For Democrats, Blocking Neil Gorsuch Won't Pay Off