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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Cover-Up Accelerates
The president directed his attorney general to declassify information—raising the prospect of selective disclosures.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Take It From an Iraq War Supporter—War With Iran Would Be a Disaster
It would mean repeating a mistake, only on a much bigger scale: without allies, without justification, and without any plan at all.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won’t Endorse His Theory of Victimhood
The president has already fired an FBI director and an acting director. Now he’s gunning for the present director, Chris Wray.
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Korean Central News Agency via Reuters Trump Has Just One Trick—And It’s Not Working Anymore
The president has a single negotiating move: Take an aggressive position, and then retreat when the bluff is called.
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Sean Gallup / Getty The Triumph of German Democracy
Seventy years in, the success of a united Germany is a story so big that it can be hard to see except at a distance.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Is Trump Hiding His Tax Returns?
As the president fights to postpone the inevitable, he risks convincing voters that they do not need a subpoena to read his guilt.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Attacks Facebook on Behalf of Racists and Grifters
But unlike in previous eras, the social giant knows it can just ignore the president.
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Leah Millis / Reuters A Crack in Trump's Stonewalling
The dike is sprouting more leaks than the president has fingers with which to plug the expanding trickles.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Mueller Helped Trump Keep His Most Important Secrets
The central question about the Trump-Russia matter remains unanswered.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Democrats Are Falling Into the Ilhan Omar Trap
By rushing to stand with the controversial congresswoman, the 2020 contenders are allowing Trump to transform her into the face of their party.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters Justin Trudeau Falls From Grace
The Canadian prime minister faces a political crisis of his own devising.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Question the Mueller Report Has Not Answered
Why?
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Even Without Mueller’s Report, Congress Had All the Facts It Needed
Everything lawmakers needed to know about Trump and Russia was in the public record.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Faith, Reason, and Immigration
The intensity of the debate makes it hard to formulate sound public policy.
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Phil Noble / Reuters The Great Realignment of Britain
Brexit is changing the basic grammar of the U.K.’s political system.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; rendering by Patrick White If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
We need to make hard decisions now about what will truly benefit current and future Americans.
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Darren Staples / Reuters It’s Five Minutes to Midnight in the U.K.
A short history of Brexit
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Reuters England’s Difficulty Is Ireland’s Mortal Danger
The Irish border has emerged as one of the thorniest issues of Brexit.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters Belfast Shows the Price of Brexit
Withdrawing from the EU might shatter the fragile peace in Northern Ireland.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters A Game of Chickens
The vote on Brexit is strangely dependent on the American poultry business.
