McKay Coppins
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters 'You Need to Think About It Like a War'
For decades, conservative Christian voters insisted that character counts. In 2017? Values voters are hard to find.
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Tim O'Brien God’s Plan for Mike Pence
Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty How James O'Keefe Made Himself Irrelevant
Once a right-wing media darling, O’Keefe laid bare the flaws in his approach with a botched sting of The Washington Post.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Bannon's Senate Insurgency Hits a Stumbling Block in Utah
The Breitbart chair’s effort to recruit populist challengers hits a snag, as the most plausible such candidate for Orrin Hatch’s seat bows out of the race.
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Marvin Gentry / Reuters Conservatives Reap the Whirlwind of Their War on the Media
For years, Republican politicians have attacked the mainstream press. With Roy Moore’s Senate bid, they’re facing the consequences.
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Andy Wong / Pool / Reuters Trump's Oddly Quiet November 8
The first anniversary of his election found the president not at a raucous rally—but halfway around the world, tightly scheduled, and scarcely tweeting.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Orrin Hatch Tells Friends He Plans to Retire
Mitt Romney has privately told allies that if the Utah senator follows through, he plans to run to replace him.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Tragedy of Jeff Flake
The Arizona senator gambled that voters would choose civility and responsible governance over Trump. On Tuesday, he folded.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters How Will Obama's Message Play in Trump's America?
The former president reprised his favorite themes of hope and unity in his return to the campaign trail on Thursday.
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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.
