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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Dinesh D’Souza and the Decline of Conservatism
Under President Trump, the most outrageous and aggrieved polemicists are thriving.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Collusion Is Worse Than a Crime
To debate whether Trump acted criminally is to miss the greater point: He’s a national-security threat.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters The Worst Security Risk in U.S. History
No one knows what President Trump told Vladimir Putin in Helsinki—or why even his own national-security adviser was excluded from the room.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump’s Crisis of Legitimacy
The president understands the stakes of the Russia story more clearly than most of his followers.
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Lehtikuva Lehtikuva / Reuters The Crisis Facing America
The country can no longer afford to wait to ascertain why President Trump has subordinated himself to Putin—it must deal with the fact that he has.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Trump’s Betrayal of Britain
During his campaign, the president encouraged Brexit. Now, as Britain struggles with its transition from the EU, he’s turned his back.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The End of the Brexit Illusion
The grand promises of withdrawal from the European Union run aground on the tedious and technical details that campaigners ignored.
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Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters The Great Russian Disinformation Campaign
In a new book, Timothy Snyder explains how Russia revolutionized information warfare—and presages its consequences for democracies in Europe and the United States.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Trade Deficit Is China’s Problem
The Trump administration views the U.S.-China trade relationship upside down: It’s not Americans who suffer from Chinese surplus.
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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.
