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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Enforce the Border—Humanely
Countering Trump’s extremism with still more extremism will do no good for any principle of freedom.
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Kyodo News / Getty Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies
Through the G7 summit, the brittle pretense of unity held together. Then came the tweets.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Antidote to Trump Is Decency
The president and his movement are empowered by ugly talk—the most effective rejoinders are factually precise and emotionally restrained.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Measure of Trump’s Devotion
On Memorial Day, as the nation turned to the president to lead its shared rituals of unity and common purpose, he revealed himself unequal to the office he holds.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Reckoning Arrives
The president’s unpredictability once worked to his advantage—but now, it is producing a mounting list of foreign-policy failures.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Fifteen Unanswered Criminal-Law Questions About Trump
A short—and by no means exhaustive—list of the open questions swirling around the president, his campaign, his company, and his family.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Impeachment Is Not the Answer
A new book from Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz argues that removing a president, even when justified, can be an unwise move.
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KTRK-TV ABC13 / AP It’s the Guns
The outrage after Parkland set off a moral reckoning and awakening—there’s a simple explanation for school shootings.
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Ahn Young-joon / AP Trump Can't Afford to Admit His Failures With North Korea
The administration has no choice now but to carry on the pretense that the negotiations are proceeding favorably.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Three Crises Sparked by Trump's Withdrawal From the Iran Deal
The seriousness of the problems caused by the president's abrupt exit will be impossible for him to ignore.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Every Culture Appropriates
The question is less whether a dress or an idea is borrowed, than the uses to which it’s then put.
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters Competing Visions of Islam Will Shape Europe in the 21st Century
Akbar Ahmed’s new book deals with how migration is reshaping the continent, and whether leaders can cope.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters Michelle Wolf Does Unto the White House as It Has Done Unto Others
Controversy at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner underscores that Trump’s staff demands decencies and courtesies that it denies to others.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Kellyanne Conway's Double Standard
A CNN interview this weekend provided a case study in the mendacious ways this White House defends itself.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump’s Attacks on Comey Collide With Reality
The president’s allies were looking for vindication—but were led astray by their reliance on a closed information system.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Unfit to Command
With the president in an agitated state, preoccupied with his legal troubles, this is no time for war.
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Matt Rourke / AP The Man Who Killed Republican Reform
The retiring House speaker played a huge role in shaping today’s GOP.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why the GOP Is Making the Midterm Elections All About Impeachment
It may be a counterintuitive gambit, but Republicans are betting it will pay off.
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Harry Harris / AP How the American Two-Party System Became so Divided
Mid-century politicians envisioned ideologically defined parties—but failed to anticipate today’s hyper-polarized environment.
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Bernadett Szabo / Reuters The Risks to Freedom in Hungary
The country’s independent media has largely been stifled. One of its remaining voices explains what it’s like to try to hold an aspiring strongman to account.
