Adam Serwer
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The First Days of the Trump Regime
The president has interpreted the Republican-controlled Senate’s vote to acquit as a writ of absolute power.
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Bettmann / Getty The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The ‘Russia Hoax’ Is a Hoax
A report by the Department of Justice inspector general debunks the claims that the investigation into political interference by the Kremlin was a left-wing conspiracy to depose the president.
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Anna Moneymaker / The New York Times / ... The War-Crimes President
When violence is directed at those Trump’s supporters hate and fear, they see such excesses not as crimes but as virtues.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Trump’s Crime Against America
The president’s offense is abusing his power to stay in office, not disputing Ukraine policy.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump’s White-Nationalist Vanguard
The emails of a key presidential aide show an extremist ideology influencing policy in the White House.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters It’s Not the Greed—It’s the Inequality
The Democratic Party’s establishment is in denial about the ways in which concentrated riches are warping society and contributing to the disunity it seeks to heal.
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Illustration: Mendelsund / Munday; Bettmann / Getty Civility Is Overrated
The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Trump Infallibility Doctrine
The president cannot fail—he can only be failed.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters So What If the Whistle-Blower Has a Political Motive?
Trump’s conduct has been substantiated by his own statements.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Mad King’s Enablers
As Trump’s demands grow ever more erratic, democracy rests on the willingness of bureaucrats to ignore the democratically elected chief executive.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump
The Framers underestimated the extent to which a demagogue might convince his supporters that the president and the people are one and the same.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Let Them Fight
Democratic primary voters should have a chance to evaluate how their potential standard-bearers fare against hostile criticism.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Is Winning His War on the FBI
Within the bureau, there’s an asymmetry that even those who seek to play by the rules cannot ignore.
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Jose Luis Gonzales / Reuters Only the Right Can Defeat White Nationalism
Law-enforcement agencies can arrest terrorists, but they cannot settle existential arguments about the nature of American democracy.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters Conservatives Have a White-Nationalism Problem
As long as the Republican Party and the conservative media are committed to defending Trump, their attempts to join their fellow Americans in eradicating the scourge of white supremacy cannot be realized.
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Douglas C. Pizac / AP The Most Dangerous American Idea
No belief in the history of the United States has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.
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Leah Mills / Reuters The Press Has Adopted Trump’s Reality-Show Standards
The reaction to the special counsel’s testimony shows how deeply the president has conditioned the media to treat political events like reality television.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters / The Atlantic What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Tells America What Kind of Nationalist He Is
In a series of tweets attacking four Democratic congresswomen, the president reiterated his belief that only white people can truly be American.
