Adam Serwer
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Children America Throws Away
A young gun-rights activist is entitled to mercy and understanding. But so are the millions of other children who never get it.
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Loren Elliott / Reuters Julián Castro Wants to Hold Police Accountable
In an interview, the presidential hopeful outlines ambitious plans for reforming immigration and policing.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum
A faction of the religious right has concluded that if liberal democracy does not guarantee victory, then it must be abandoned.
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Mike Segar / Reuters A White Man’s Republic, If They Can Keep It
As it weighs a census case, the Supreme Court will have to decide whether America is a nation for all its citizens.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The ‘Enemy of the People’ Is the Real Target of the Assange Prosecution
Going after the WikiLeaks founder for publishing state secrets places journalists at risk.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Dangerous Ideas of Bill Barr
The attorney general’s theory of executive power places presidents above the law.
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Edgar Su / Reuters Nazis Have Always Been Trolls
They rely on murderous insincerity and the unwillingness of liberal societies to see them for what they are.
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Edel Rodriguez White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots
A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it
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Joshua Lott / Reuters The Lesson of the Jussie Smollett Case
Allegedly fraudulent reports support a narrative that many wish to believe.
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Jasmine Walls A Great, Forgotten Black Radical
Timothy Thomas Fortune isn’t a household name, but he had a profound influence on the struggle for civil rights.
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Jay Paul / Reuters There’s More at Stake Than Ralph Northam’s Career
If the Virginia governor stays, he gives license to any number of future scoundrels to remain in office despite engaging in bigotry against their constituents.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters The Terrorism That Doesn’t Spark a Panic
Americans should react to violence from religious and ethnic minorities with the same sense of proportion they reserve for far-right extremists.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters Trump’s Inner Circle Keeps Violating the Stringer Bell Rule
Roger Stone is the latest of the president’s associates to ignore the most important rule in a conspiracy: Don’t take notes.
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Bryan Woolston / AP The Trump-Era Overcorrection
The evolving coverage of a confrontation on the National Mall offers a case study in how media outlets zigzag wildly in their efforts to please their readers.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Prayer-Rug Paranoia
The president turns again to flimsy rumor to build support for his policies.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters This Charge Is Different
An explosive report that Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress provides a straightforwardly impeachable offense.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Barr May Do Exactly What Trump Wants
The nominee for attorney general vowed independence, but his answers raised disturbing questions.
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Stephen Maturen / Getty What’s the Difference Between Steve King and Donald Trump?
The congressman from Iowa has drawn rebukes from Republicans for his statements about white supremacy and white nationalism, but he shares many of his views with the president.
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Samuel Corum / Anadolu Agency / Getty The President’s Pursuit of White Power
Trump’s response to Charlottesville showed the core of his philosophy: the preservation of America’s traditional hierarchies of race.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump the Toddler
The president is pursuing a child’s strategy for getting what he wants.
