Adam Serwer
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters So What If the Whistle-Blower Has a Political Motive?
Trump’s conduct has been substantiated by his own statements.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Mad King’s Enablers
As Trump’s demands grow ever more erratic, democracy rests on the willingness of bureaucrats to ignore the democratically elected chief executive.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump
The Framers underestimated the extent to which a demagogue might convince his supporters that the president and the people are one and the same.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Let Them Fight
Democratic primary voters should have a chance to evaluate how their potential standard-bearers fare against hostile criticism.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Is Winning His War on the FBI
Within the bureau, there’s an asymmetry that even those who seek to play by the rules cannot ignore.
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Jose Luis Gonzales / Reuters Only the Right Can Defeat White Nationalism
Law-enforcement agencies can arrest terrorists, but they cannot settle existential arguments about the nature of American democracy.
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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.
