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Leah Millis / Reuters A State of Unreality
Trump’s emergency declaration is going to run into four hurdles.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Doubles Down
In his State of the Union address, the president had the option of reaching out. He chose to stay the course.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Howard Schultz May Save the Democratic Party From Itself
To defeat Trump, Democrats will have to appeal not to his fiercest enemies, but to his softest supporters.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP Roger Stone’s Arrest Is the Signal for Congress to Act
Robert Mueller is looking for crimes. It’s up to legislators to safeguard the country.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The President’s Hostage Attempt Is Going Miserably Wrong
Once again, Trump tried and failed to strike a deal on Saturday.
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Grigory Dukor / Reuters Subpoena the Interpreter
There are real costs to such a move—but the public needs to know what was said between Trump and Putin.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Mystery of the Disappearing Security Clearance
President Trump tried to unilaterally strip a CIA director’s security clearance, but it’s still unclear whether he actually did.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Trump Has Defeated Himself
The president, trapped without a decent exit in a predicament of his own making, will yield everything and get nothing.
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Chip East CME / HB / Reuters The Great Illusion of The Apprentice
Even more than wealth, the reality-TV show promised its viewers accountability.
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Jim Young / Reuters Why Is Trump Spouting Russian Propaganda?
The president’s endorsement of the U.S.S.R.’s invasion of Afghanistan echoes a narrative promoted by Vladimir Putin.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters No More Excuses
The resignation of James Mattis leaves Congress to face the truth about Trump.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters The Self-Delusion of Paul Ryan
The speaker’s account of his tenure in office is at odds with observable reality.
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Dennis Cook / AP A Forgotten Legacy of George H. W. Bush
He was an architect of one of the most important environmental achievements of the past three decades.
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Trump Is Exposing a Major Flaw in American Democracy
The recent appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general threatens the rule of law in the U.S.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Mr. Brexit
The president encouraged Britain to leave the EU—but now that things are falling apart, he’s abdicating his responsibility to help.
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Mike Segar / Reuters There Is No Progressive Majority in America
“Anti-left” still beats “anti-Trump” in Texas, Georgia, and Florida, and in many other places besides.
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Bettmann / Corbis / Getty The Day of Fate
Kristallnacht, on its 80th anniversary, still offers a potent lesson: We all face the choice between right and wrong, responsibility and recklessness, conscience and complicity.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Forcing Out Sessions Is an Attack on Accountability
Voters elected a Democratic House to impose a check on the president. Now Trump is waging a frontal assault on efforts to hold him accountable.
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Adria Malcolm / Reuters Beto’s Loss Was a Blessing in Disguise for Democrats
And other lessons of the 2018 midterm elections
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters The Real Lesson of My Debate With Steve Bannon
I argued against the false promise of what Trump's former strategist bills as populism. Then events took a strange turn.
