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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.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Will Andrew McCabe Be Prosecuted?
Former Justice Department attorneys said a criminal referral for the former FBI deputy director and frequent target of President Trump was expected, given the contents of a recent Inspector General’s report.
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Malcolm Pinckney / NYC Parks Why a Statue of the 'Father of Gynecology' Had to Come Down
J. Marion Sims’s advances in medical science were made through experimentation on enslaved women.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How the FBI Helped Sink Clinton’s Campaign
New reports reveal that decisions made by a number of officials, acting out of a variety of motives, injured not Trump’s candidacy—but that of his opponent.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Trump's Claims About McCabe Aren't Supported by Internal FBI Review
A new Inspector General’s report accuses the former deputy director of lying about his role in a leak. But it doesn’t match the White House narrative that McCabe was biased against Trump.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters James Comey Is No Hero
The former FBI director has a low opinion of the president who fired him, but his disregard for Justice Department rules helped put Trump in the White House to begin with.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Due Process Double Standard
The president regards legal rights as a form of political correctness—unless he or his allies are the ones targeted by law enforcement.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Michael Cohen Has a Big Problem
It takes strong evidence to execute a search warrant against an attorney representing a subject in a federal investigation, let alone the president’s personal counsel.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Does It Matter If Trump Is a 'Target' or a 'Subject' of Mueller's Probe?
The president’s attorneys may be relieved, but experts caution there’s little reason for the president to take comfort.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Why the FBI Fires People for 'Lack of Candor'
FBI employees are required to adhere to an ethical standard that includes an affirmative duty to offer relevant information to internal investigators.
