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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.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Exceptions to the Rulers
When people of color enter elite spaces, they’re often attacked as undeserving charlatans. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is no different.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Is Making It Easier to Get Away With Discrimination
The administration’s rollback of disparate-impact regulations will make it harder to root out systemic prejudice.
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Trump and His Supporters Thrive on Cruelty
The president and his backers revel in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Is Running Out of Alibis
The president has few innocent explanations left for what looks like a conspiracy to violate campaign-finance laws.
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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.
