Adam Serwer
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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.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Lied to the Supreme Court, and Four Justices Don’t Care
The White House insisted allegations that it wanted to add a citizenship question to the survey for political reasons were conspiracy theories, right up until the moment the president confirmed them.
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Reuters A Crime by Any Name
The Trump administration’s commitment to deterring immigration through cruelty has made horrifying conditions in detention facilities inevitable.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Roberts’s Rules of Misrepresentation
The chief justice has enshrined bad-faith argumentation as the legal strategy most likely to succeed at the Supreme Court.
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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.
