The G.O.P.’s signature policy initiative collapsed under the weight of its own shortcomings and contradictions.
July 28, 2017
The votes so far suggest it is now highly likely that a good deal of Obamacare will remain in place—the question is just how much.
July 27, 2017
McCain voted to move the G.O.P. health-care bill forward, and then inveighed against precisely the sort of cynical partisan political maneuver he had just took part in.
July 25, 2017
No major bill in recent history has been railroaded through the upper chamber in such a manner.
July 25, 2017
The big “get” of President Trump’s interview with the New York Times was confirmation of a story that’s been going around Washington for months.
July 20, 2017
In blithely threatening to let the Obamacare exchanges collapse, Trump is ignoring his duty to protect the welfare of the citizenry.
July 19, 2017
The larger lesson of this sorry episode is that nobody can resolve the contradictions of today’s Republican Party.
July 18, 2017
The Republican bill could return the country to a system where the old, sick, and working poor struggle to find coverage—or go without.
July 14, 2017
Despite the latest revelations in the Trump-Russia saga, there is still no sign that Republican lawmakers are breaking from Trump in a meaningful way.
July 12, 2017
In the emerging White House narrative, Trump, Jr., is an outsider—a well-connected freelancer who wasn’t speaking or acting on behalf of his father.
July 11, 2017