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Alexander Drago / Reuters The Central Challenge of the Fight Against Trumpism
The midterms showed that the president has a real political constituency—one that gerrymandering and voter suppression make it hard to defeat.
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Reuters Brett Kavanaugh Discovers the Unfairness of the World
The Supreme Court nominee and his defenders proved unable to extend their awareness of injustice into empathy with Christine Blasey Ford.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters The Wrong Question for Brett Kavanaugh
Everyone wants to know: Did he do it? But there’s more people should be asking.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The End of All Illusions
Trump said nothing new in Helsinki—but his remarks clarified and distilled into a single frame his appalling disregard for an assault on America.
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Reuters / CBP A Choice Between Cruelty and Mercy
A 2,500-year-old play illustrates the emptiness of the administration’s arguments about enforcing the law.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Moments After Trump Tweets
The president’s social-media missives regularly thrust observers into a state of disquietude—waiting to discover what he actually means, if indeed he means anything at all.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Bad News for President Trump
The Comey memos are more revealing than they seem.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Courts Are Neutralizing Trump's Deceptions
The president deploys obfuscation as a political weapon, but both the Russia and Michael Cohen investigations show that facts really do matter in the courtroom.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is America on the Verge of a Constitutional Crisis?
As the Trump presidency approaches a troubling tipping point, it’s time to find the right term for what’s happening to democracy.
