Adam Serwer
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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?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters There’s No Coup Against Trump
American democracy is imperiled by Republicans enabling the president’s authoritarian impulses, not by self-aggrandizing op-eds from anonymous bureaucrats.
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Alicia Tatone The Supreme Court Is Headed Back to the 19th Century
The justices again appear poised to pursue a purely theoretical liberty at the expense of the lives of people of color.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Trump’s Troubles Are Just Getting Started
The conviction of his former campaign chair and the guilty plea of his former personal attorney will not be the end of the president’s legal difficulties.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters All Eyes on the Presidency
A pair of high-profile convictions implicate Donald Trump—but also serve as a reminder that only some people pay the consequences for systemic corruption in America.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters America Doesn’t Need Another Tape to Know Who Trump Is
A recent memoir from a former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault-Newman, has reignited interest in the possibility of a recording in which the president employs a racial slur for black people.
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Bryan Snyder / Reuters Heather Heyer’s Mother: ‘We’ve Just Got Such a Ways to Go’
Susan Bro, whose daughter was killed during the white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, says that America has yet to confront prejudice in its past and present.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters The White Nationalists Are Winning
Fox News anchors and high-profile politicians are now openly pushing the racism of the alt-right. The fringe movement’s messages have permeated the mainstream Republican Party.
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Richard Drew / AP Michael Cohen's Claim 'Is Not Worth Anything Unless It Can be Corroborated'
His assertion that President Trump knew in advance about his campaign’s June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower won’t, on its own, stand up in court.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters All the President’s Hush Money
A recording from Donald Trump’s longtime attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, raises further legal questions about payments made during the 2016 campaign.
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Patrick Semansky / AP What Ben Jealous’s Win Means for Democrats
The former NAACP chief won Maryland’s Democratic primary on Tuesday by campaigning as an enthusiastic progressive. But he faces the very popular Republican incumbent Larry Hogan in November.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Supreme Court’s Green Light to Discriminate
By upholding President Trump’s travel ban, the justices have sent the message that the administration is free to turn prejudice into public policy.
