Adam Serwer
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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.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters Is Ben Jealous What Progressives Want?
The former NAACP chief wants to turn Maryland into a progressive beacon, fusing Bernie-style economic policy with racial justice. But first he has to win his gubernatorial primary.
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John Moore / Getty Trumpism, Realized
To preserve the political and cultural preeminence of white Americans against a tide of demographic change, the administration has settled on a policy of systemic child abuse.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Was Comey’s Letter to Congress Driven By Fear He’d Be Impeached?
Officials told investigators that the former FBI director worried failing to tell Congress the Clinton email inquiry had been reopened would not be “survivable.”
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Man Who Would Be King
In order to protect the president, Trump’s advocates have turned to arguing his power is virtually unlimited.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Just Say It’s Racist
The American press is caught between describing Trumpism accurately and avoiding the wrath of the president and his supporters.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters There Is Only One Trump Scandal
The myriad Trump scandals can obscure the fact that they’re all elements of one massive tale of corruption.
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Zach Roberts / AP The Defense That Failed White Nationalists
Marchers from last year’s Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville who attacked a black counter-protester made a claim that has often worked for police officers: They acted in self-defense.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Giuliani’s Defense Only Intensifies the Legal Risks for Trump
The former New York mayor said in an interview that a payment made on the president’s behalf to Stormy Daniels prevented damaging information from emerging during the 2016 election.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty 'These Are Very Dangerous Questions for the President'
A leaked list of questions Special Counsel Robert Mueller wants to ask President Trump highlights the risks of agreeing to be interviewed in the Russia investigation.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Pleading the Fifth Doesn't Mean Michael Cohen Is Guilty
Trump critics shouldn’t echo the president’s assumption that anyone who invokes their right against self-incrimination is guilty.
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Matt Archer / Getty How Cosby's 'Pound Cake' Speech Helped Lead to His Downfall
In federal court and the public consciousness, his moralizing accelerated the cultural backlash against him and provided evidence that would be used against him at trial.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Bill to Protect Mueller May Not Survive the Supreme Court
Legal scholars say the bipartisan legislation could run into trouble at the high court.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Comey Memos Won't Derail the Mueller Probe
The release of the documents seems unlikely to harm the current stage of the investigation, but if Congress keeps tipping the special counsel’s hand, that could change.
