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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Limits of Bullying
Trump’s opponents have often been accused of naïveté for their appeals to norms and civility. But early Friday morning, at least, that faith was rewarded.
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Zach Gibson / Reuters Trump Asserts 'Complete Power to Pardon' in Saturday Tweetstorm
The president also angrily lashed out at the media and his critics.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Sessions Discussed Campaign Matters With Russian Ambassador
A new report from The Washington Post claims the attorney general had two “substantive” discussions with Sergey Kislyak about Trump’s stance on issues important to Russia.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Mueller Can Pursue Whatever Crimes He Uncovers
There are no legal or ethical reasons for the special counsel to turn away if he discovers indications of misconduct that are unrelated to the original Russia inquiry.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Criticizes Sessions Over Russia Recusal
In an interview with The New York Times, the president said he never would have chosen his attorney general if he knew he would end up recusing himself from the ongoing federal inquiry into the 2016 election.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Jeff Sessions Claimed He Never Met Foreign Officials on a Key Security Form
A page from the attorney general’s documents, used to apply for a security clearance, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Story of Jay-Z
Decoding the historical context behind the emcee’s economic nationalism on his new album 4:44
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Incompetence Defense
Republican senators suggest Trump is innocent because he didn’t try very hard to obstruct justice, or because he was bad at it.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters What Did Mike Pompeo Do?
Reports that Trump asked intelligence chiefs to help shut down the investigation into Michael Flynn raise the question of whether the CIA director was asked to do the same, and how he reacted if he was.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Lee's Reputation Can't Be Redeemed
The question isn’t whether Robert E. Lee was a successful military commander—it’s why American communities continue to honor a Confederate leader.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
The legend of the Confederate leader’s heroism and decency is based in the fiction of a person who never existed.
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handout / Reuters Why Would Jared Kushner Trust Russian Officials So Much?
A Washington Post report suggests the president's son-in-law and adviser sought to give Moscow information he wanted to conceal from America's own intelligence agencies.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Report: Jared Kushner Asked Kislyak for Use of Russian Communications Facilities
The Washington Post reports that the president’s son-in-law suggested using Russian diplomatic facilities to create a secret channel to Moscow.
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Stringer / Reuters The Lesser Part of Valor
Preston Brooks, Greg Gianforte, and the American tradition of disguising cowardice as bravery
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Mike Blake / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Agenda for the Civil-Rights Division
The Trump administration's budget envisions staff reductions and a diminished focus on traditional civil-rights enforcement.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Questions About Obstruction Now Spread to White House Staff
Reports that presidential aides asked senior intelligence officials to help shut down the FBI investigation put those staffers in legal jeopardy.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Can Jeff Sessions Be Independent?
Recent revelations suggesting the president pressured his now-ousted FBI director raise questions about the attorney general’s autonomy.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Tragedy of James Comey
The former FBI director’s attempts to protect the bureau’s independence may have fatally compromised that independence.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Blind Eye
The new attorney general makes it clear that when it comes to abuses in local policing, Americans are now on their own.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters ‘This Is McCarthyism!’
In an early-morning tweetstorm on Saturday, the president accused his predecessor of a 'Nixon/Watergate' wiretapping scheme against the Trump campaign.
