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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.
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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.
