Pat Toomey

“The biggest lies that the president has told include that he would do something about universal background checks,” Julian Castro said on Meet the Press on Sunday.

Now they call it a government ‘slush fund.’ But many Republicans—among them new House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and even Club for Growth presidents—once supported the Ex-Im Bank.

The NRA got its victory, but Michael Tomasky is confident that, years from now, we’ll look back on yesterday as the moment when the gun lobby overreached—and laid the groundwork for its own undoing.

Patricia Murphy on the fallout after the Boston blasts stole momentum from the drive for new laws.

Fellow non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma sufferer Jamie Reno remembers another side to the senator, who died at 82.

He's the model for today's insurgent candidates, a primary challenger who pushed his party to the right despite warnings he had no shot. Now Pat Toomey has transformed into a mainstream Senate candidate—and he's winning.