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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined by, from left, Sen. John Thune, Sen. Joni Ernst, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul, and Sen. James Lankford speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The GOP has a leadership crisis

W. James Antle III · July 30, 2015 9:00 pm

Donald Trump is the most powerful person in media, according to MSNBC's "Morning Joe." (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Is this Donald Trump’s amnesty?

W. James Antle III · July 30, 2015 8:54 pm

Medicare Advantage plans, which cover about 30 percent of all elderly Americans, will cost an average of $32.60 per month next year, 31 cents lower than this year, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (AP file)

Beltway Confidential

Medicare and Medicaid’s 50th anniversary in 8 graphs

Jason Russell · July 30, 2015 7:47 pm

Three University of Virginia graduates and members of the fraternity profiled in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the article's author Wednesday. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Fraternity brothers sue Rolling Stone as top editor resigns

Ashe Schow · July 30, 2015 4:52 pm

It's possible that President Obama will finish out his term pretending that his military strategy is working and no change is necessary. (AP Photo)

National Security

Living in strategic denial

Mark Moyar · July 30, 2015 4:01 am

In this Nov. 18, 2013 photo, warden Nick Ludwick walks past a row of cells at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison, Iowa. (AP Photo)Â

Now is the time for criminal justice reform

Rep Jim Sensenbrenner · July 30, 2015 4:01 am

Republican voters have been seething with discontent at their party's officeholders and have not become enchanted with any one of 15 more or less conventional politicians who are running.Â (Photo by Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)

Asymmetrical politics: Republicans act like an unruly mob, Democrats like a regimented army

Michael Barone · July 29, 2015 9:00 pm

Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., second from left, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, July 27, 2015, where the Employee Rights Act was discussed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

Hardly any mention of due process at Senate hearing on campus sexual assault

Ashe Schow · July 29, 2015 7:35 pm

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., second from left, walks to the podium to speak to reporters following the weekly Republican luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Joining McConnell are, from left, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wy., Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Beltway Confidential

A majority of the Senate majority opposes the Export-Import Bank — easily

Timothy P. Carney · July 29, 2015 5:52 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to a crowd at the Beech Hill Farm during a campaign stop Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Hopkinton, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Beltway Confidential

Hillary Clinton’s capital gains tax proposal is useless

Jason Russell · July 29, 2015 5:44 pm

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a conference, Tuesday, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Beltway Confidential

Bernie Sanders schools Vox on immigration

Byron York · July 29, 2015 8:28 am

"Nothing about the studies from which he repurposed data depended on survey respondents being students, or acts they reported taking place while in college," LaFavre wrote.

Beltway Confidential

Campus serial rapist survey debunked

Ashe Schow · July 29, 2015 5:00 am