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Janette Beckman / Redferns / Getty Suicide Is Not an Act of Cowardice
A radio host’s tweets have resurrected a dangerous myth to disparage a celebrated novelist.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Don’t Use These Free-Speech Arguments Ever Again
Most speech, hateful or not, is protected by the Constitution. To pretend otherwise is foolhardy.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison
These stories don’t mention Jeffrey Epstein, but they are about him.
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Associated Press / Richard Drew The Jeffrey Epstein Case Is Like Nothing I’ve Seen Before
Great wealth insulates people from consequences, but not always, absolutely, or forever.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why a Government Lawyer Argued Against Giving Immigrant Kids Toothbrushes
The sheer effrontery of the government’s argument may be explained, but not excused, by its long backstory.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Robert Mueller Wishes You’d Read His Report
The special counsel is a man out of time, a by-the-book throwback who expects Americans to absorb carefully worded documents.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Character Is Destiny. And Michael Avenatti Is a Bloviator.
The accusations against him are hardly surprising.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Barr’s Startling and Unseemly Haste
The attorney general’s letter will do little to bridge the partisan divide.
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Alex Brandon / AP 6 Reasons Paul Manafort Got Off So Lightly
The criminal-justice system works at every stage and every level to give chances to people like Manafort.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Republicans Committed the Classic Cross-Examination Blunder
Trump’s supporters in Congress did not successfully destroy Michael Cohen’s credibility.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Reckless Even by Roger Stone Standards
Never gratuitously annoy the person who is deciding how long you’ll spend in federal prison.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Roger Stone’s Greatest Liability
The longtime Trump adviser’s attention-seeking ways made him an easy target for Robert Mueller.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Note to Michael Flynn: Federal Court Is Not Twitter
A muscular public-relations strategy is often a terrible litigation strategy.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger
Robert Mueller is closing in on the president and all his men.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Three Remarkable Things About Michael Cohen's Plea
These developments would, under normal circumstances, end a presidency.
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Chip East / Reuters Can Sexual-Harassment Training Stop the Next Les Moonves?
I give prevention seminars. I think they’re theater, but they’re more than that, too.
