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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump Can’t Stop Confessing
Proving white-collar crimes is an exceedingly difficult task for prosecutors. Trump is doing his best to make it easier.
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Mike Blake / Reuters America’s Two Political Parties Are Asymmetrical
The Democrats are too ideologically and ethnically diverse to field a presidential candidate who resembles the man in the White House.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Conscience of a Conservative
It should not fall to the only black Republican senator to block a man who spent his career seeking to disenfranchise minority voters from being appointed to the federal bench.
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Warner Bros. / Everett Collection How Creed Forever Changed the Rocky Series
Ryan Coogler and Sylvester Stallone profoundly altered the racial subtext of America’s most iconic sports-film franchise.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Just Because an Election Is Legal Doesn’t Mean It’s Legitimate
Attempts to prevent the governed from exercising their right to the franchise deserve to bear the stigma of illegitimacy.
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Win McNamee / Getty Trump Will Only Get More Dangerous
The dismissal of Jeff Sessions makes this much clear: The Republicans’ midterm defeat has made the president more desperate to undermine the rule of law.
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Colin Hackley / Reuters America's Problem Isn't Tribalism—It's Racism
Only one of America’s major political parties relies on stoking hatred and fear against those outside its coalition.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Something’s Happening in Texas
The Republican Party’s future dominance of the Lone Star State, and the nation itself, relies on rigging democracy to its advantage. It won’t work forever.
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Gene J. Puskar / AP Trump’s Caravan Hysteria Led to This
The president and his supporters insisted that several thousand Honduran migrants were a looming menace—and the Pittsburgh gunman took that seriously.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Condemnations of Violence Aren’t Convincing His Supporters
The president has given the nation no reason to think his recent disavowals are sincere.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trumpism Is ‘Identity Politics’ for White People
The president’s closing argument in the midterm elections lays bare the logic of his appeal.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Hits the Panic Button
The president’s praise for a congressman who assaulted a reporter is an act of desperation by a man contemplating the potential consequences of defeat at the polls.
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Scott Olson / Getty Something Went Wrong in Chicago
A white policeman was convicted of murder in the killing of a black teen—an outcome that goes against the many forces aligned to prevent the officer from facing consequences.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Guardrails Have Failed
The conflict over Trump’s Supreme Court nominee exposed the fast-eroding institutional barriers to the president’s authoritarian instincts.
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Reuters / Jonathan Ernst The Cruelty Is the Point
President Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters How Republicans Weaponized the FBI Against Anita Hill
The FBI report did Hill no favors. Will Christine Blasey Ford receive better treatment?
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Win McNamee / Getty The Confirmation of Trumpism
The accusations against Brett Kavanaugh—and his conspiratorial, partisan response—have made him a fitting champion for the party of Trump.
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Pool / Reuters What Mark Judge’s Absence Reveals
The conspicuous absence of the only other witness to an alleged assault committed by Brett Kavanaugh reveals a Senate hearing held in bad faith.
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Associated Press The NRA’s Catch-22 for Black Men Shot by Police
A National Rifle Association spokesperson says Botham Jean would still be alive if he’d had a firearm. But when African Americans legally bearing arms are shot by police, the organization’s media outlet doesn’t defend them.
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Cario Allegri/Reuters A Coup in America?
The anonymous op-ed is dire. But does it describe a coup?
