Molly Ball
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John Cuneo When the Presses Stop
Bernie Krisher helped bring free journalism to Cambodia. Now, as the country reverts to autocracy, his paper has been shut down. Will he survive the heartbreak? Will Cambodia?
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Fuse / Getty / Tanner Boriack / Peter … On Safari in Trump's America
The country’s elites are desperate to figure out what they got wrong in 2016. But can they handle the truth?
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Lloyd Bishop / NBC Hillbilly Elegy Writer Won't Seek Office
J.D. Vance, whose memoir of rural white resentment helped explain Trump’s rise, seriously considered a bid for U.S. Senate in his home state of Ohio.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How Immigration Hardliners Are Forcing Trump's Hand on DACA
The president appears poised to end the Obama administration’s protections for young illegal immigrants.
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Brynn Anderson / Associated Press The Alabama Senate Race Gets Moore Strange
A Bible-thumper and a tainted insider advance to the GOP runoff in an election that tested red-state Republican loyalties in the age of Trump.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'The President Was Entirely Correct'
President Trump’s remarks on the deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville have sparked widespread outrage. But the White House is asking congressional Republicans to follow his lead.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What Happens When Trump Endorses the Candidate of the Hated Establishment?
A Senate primary in Alabama is playing out as a test of what Republicans care about more—loving the president or hating D.C.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Trump Show Never Ends
This is what’s going to happen, day in and day out—an endless loop of shock and fury.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Final Humiliation of Reince Priebus
Like his party, the former White House chief of staff swallowed his principles in the name of power. He was repaid in savage indignity.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump—They're Turning on Each Other
With progress stalled on the GOP’s policy priorities, frustration is rising on Capitol Hill. But the White House isn’t taking the bulk of the blame.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Troublemaker
The same qualities that made Donald Trump Jr. his father’s political heir may have put him at the center of the latest scandal.
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Chris Aluka Berry / Reuters Democrats Will Have to Do Better Than Ossoff
The Georgia congressional race didn’t show a party on pace to take back the House next year.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters Why Ossoff Lost
Despite the opposition Trump has galvanized, the Democrats still haven’t figured out how to win in the places where they’re trying to stage a comeback.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Virginia's Wake-Up Call to the GOP Establishment
Republican elites in the commonwealth thought their base would reject Trumpist politics. Instead, the establishment favorite nearly lost to a Trump-style provocateur.
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Steve Helber / AP Can a Trump-Style Republican Win in Virginia?
The state’s gubernatorial primaries Tuesday will be an early test of how Trump has changed the political environment.
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Paul Morigi / Getty / Katie Martin/ The … 'Y’all Sent Me to Washington at an Interesting Time'
A freshman Republican lawmaker tries to stay on the right side of his constituents—and his principles—deep in Trump Country.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters How Trump Is Torturing Capitol Hill
As Republicans in Congress try to fend off the flurry of scandals, they are haunted by a question: Is this as good as it’s going to get?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Grover Norquist, the Happiest Man in Washington
The veteran conservative activist ought to be disturbed by the Trump administration. Why is he so optimistic—and what’s vaping got to do with it?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Unsung Architect of Trumpism
Kellyanne Conway’s theory that Republicans could win a presidential election with an anti-immigration message had a major influence on Trump’s platform—and his win.
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WG600; Carolyn Kaster / AP; NASA Kellyanne’s Alternative Universe
Will the truth ever catch up with Trump’s most skilled spin artist?
