Adam Serwer
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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.
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Alex Brandon / AP McCabe’s Firing Chips Away at the Justice Department’s Independence
Shortly after he was dismissed Friday by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the former FBI deputy director pinned the blame directly on President Trump.
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Stephanie Keith / Reuters What Is Robert Mueller Looking For?
The New York Times reports that the special counsel has demanded records from the Trump Organization.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Obama's Legacy of Impunity for Torture
The 44th president’s decision to “look forward” has enabled Donald Trump to look backward and appoint a torture backer to run the CIA.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters Why Tamika Mallory Won’t Condemn Farrakhan
To those outside the black community, the Nation of Islam’s persistent appeal, despite its bigotry, can seem incomprehensible.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What Is Sam Nunberg Doing?
The former Trump aide’s decision to announce that he was defying a subpoena from Robert Mueller is more likely to pique the special counsel’s interest than dispel it.
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Marvel The Tragedy of Erik Killmonger
The revolutionary ideals of Black Panther’s profound and complex villain have been twisted into a desire for hegemony.
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David Shepardson / Reuters The One Big Question Settled by the Russia Indictment
The charges unsealed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller are unequivocal about Russian efforts to help Donald Trump become president.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Trumping of the FBI
The president and his allies don’t want to protect the bureau’s political independence—they want to subvert it.
