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Randall Hill / Reuters The Deep Republican Roots of Trump's Media Bashing
As the president threatens to crack down on unfriendly news outlets, many conservatives say their goal is to “destroy” the mainstream media.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Republicans Got Trump Catastrophically Wrong
GOP leaders assumed the president’s campaign-trail rhetoric would give way to Washington realities—the trajectory they’d followed themselves.
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Charles Ommanney / Getty Images A Conversation With Bret Baier, the News Guy at Fox News
The Special Report anchor on the “tough year” his network has had, attacks on the media, and his ongoing struggle to book an interview with President Trump
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Evan Vucci / AP 'Nobody’s in Control'
Republican strategists have come to the unnerving conclusion that no one in their party—not even Donald Trump—has absolute influence over the unruly populist movement that swept him into office.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Channeling Breitbart From Behind the Resolute Desk
When President Trump describes his aides as “globalists,” he’s adopting the language of outsiders even as he sits in the Oval Office.
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Mark Humphrey / AP 'The Republican Party Is Unified in Revulsion'
The Republican National Committee unanimously approved a resolution Friday condemning white supremacy.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Republican Establishment Stands Behind Trump
Of 146 state party chairs and national committee members asked about President Trump's response to Charlottesville, only seven were critical.
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REUTERS/Stephanie Keith The Far Right's Day in Boston
Participants in a “free speech” rally in Boston say they aren’t white nationalists, but claim there is a “war against whites” in America.
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Twitter / A.J. Delgado / The Atlantic From Trump Aide to Single Mom
Last November, A.J. Delgado played a vital role on a winning campaign. Then everything fell apart.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty What Republicans Could Do About Trump
Here's what the president’s most vocal opponents would like to see happen on Capitol Hill.
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Andrew Harnik / AP 'Who Will Fill That Void in the White House Now?'
The departure of chief of staff Reince Priebus could jeopardize the administration’s tenuous connection with Republican institutions in Washington.
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Jim Young / Reuters The Lesson Trump Hasn't Learned
Trump says that he surrounds himself with “the best people”—but too often, that means people like himself.
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John Cuneo Jeff Flake’s Gamble
The Arizona Republican is betting his Senate seat on the political appeal of decency—but can that pay off in Trump’s America?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Fox-Newsification of the White House
Trump doubles down on his performative war against the press by hiring the most skilled performers.
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Is Trumpism the New Conservatism?
To understand the changes taking place in the Republican Party now, it helps to go back to the last time the party went through a major transformation.
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What Congressional Republicans Really Think About Trump and Russia
Even as alarm has reached fever pitch among Democrats, most in the GOP see the reaction as little more than partisan noise.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Everybody-Does-It Defense of Collusion
After months of vehement denials, Trump supporters and surrogates are trying a new tack: If collusion occurred, it was no big deal.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic How the Left Lost Its Mind
Polemicists, conspiracists, and outright fabulists are feeding an alternative media landscape—where the implausibility of a claim is no bar to its acceptance.
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John Cuneo Evan McMullin’s War
How Trump and Twitter gave rise to the GOP’s leading dissident
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters What Trump Really Fears
After decades of giving his top aides autonomy and encouraging them to compete, the president faces an open-ended investigation that may uncover their excesses.
