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Alex Edelman / Getty Why the Kavanaugh Confirmation Still Haunts Us
The power of the stories is how normal they are.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Marker of an Authoritarian
Trump insists on editing reality to conform to his own needs—if necessary, with a Sharpie.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Impeachment, but Without the Moral Clarity
The House Judiciary Committee takes the first step—but also brings a vital constitutional process down to the level of political horse-trading.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Kamala Harris’s Mistake
A presidential candidate shouldn’t be endorsing the potential prosecution of a political opponent.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Mueller Counted on Institutions to Grapple With His Report. They Didn’t.
Neither Congress nor the press did enough to tell the American people what they needed to know.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Impeachment Is a Refusal to Accept the Unacceptable
Taking action against Trump is a rejection of the idea that nothing matters.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters If Congress Won’t Act, Trump Will
Encouraged by lawmakers’ passivity, the president is taking the same approach to 2020 that he took to 2016.
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Erin Scott / Reuters All of the Impeachable Offenses
Focusing on the Mueller report alone risks leaving out the obvious.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Unpardonable Challenge to the Constitution
The president regards the border as a lawless space, where courts have no purchase and the only thing that matters is strength of will.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters No One Who Matters Has Read the Mueller Report Yet
Until it’s released to the public, the country will float in a state of suspended animation.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Most Important—And Neglected—Moment of the Michael Cohen Hearing
It wasn’t what the president’s former attorney said. It was how Elijah Cummings responded.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters A Turning Point for Sextortion
Jeff Bezos’s public stand might help more vulnerable victims.
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Leah Millis / Reuters A Confederacy of Grift
The subjects of Robert Mueller’s investigation are cashing in.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Real Significance of the FBI’s Probe Into Trump
It’s a big deal.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty You Know You're in a Constitutional Crisis When ...
The health of the republic may seem imperiled, but this is in many ways a slow-moving catastrophe.
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Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters Trump’s State of Exception
The administration’s quick disclaimer of responsibility for the death of Jakelin Caal Maquín highlights the limits of its emphasis on law and order.
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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.
