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Jim Bourg / Reuters Black Charlottesville Has Seen This All Before
The return of violent white-supremacist rallies to the city is a special threat to its African American community, but not a new one.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump's Threat to End Obamacare Insurer Payments Would Actually Cost More
The independent scoring agency finds suspending cost-sharing reductions, if carried out, would increase the costs of premiums and also increase the federal deficit.
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stringer / Reuters The Gap Between Trump and the Black Community
An appearance by White House official Omarosa Manigault-Newman underscored the divide between the administration and many African Americans.
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Steve Helber / AP When Does a Fringe Movement Stop Being Fringe?
Even the most feared white supremacists in the lore of Jim Crow were just regular white men.
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Library of Congress The Lost History of an American Coup D’État
Republicans and Democrats in North Carolina are locked in a battle over which party inherits the shame of Jim Crow.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP No Country for Colin Kaepernick
It’s very possible that the activist-athlete will never take another snap in the NFL.
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Molly Riley / Reuters The Myth of Reverse Racism
The idea of white victimhood is increasingly central to the debate over affirmative action.
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Drew Angerer / Getty How Repeal Died—and Could Rise Again
The failed seven-month drama over rolling back Obamacare illustrates just how far the Republican Party has drifted from constituents and good governance.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Health Care Freedom Act Hits the Senate Floor
The “skinny repeal” would eliminate Obamacare’s mandates, defund Planned Parenthood, and lead to 16 million more uninsured.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The Skinny Repeal Gets a Score
The Congressional Budget Office offered an estimate of Republicans’ last-ditch attempt to roll back Obamacare.
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C-SPAN2 / AP Making Sense of the Obamacare Repeal Process
The methods Senate Republicans are using to try to pass a new health law are confusing, but still bound by some clear rules.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What's the Real Goal of Trump's Voter-Fraud Commission?
A conversation with Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of three Democrats advising the president on “election integrity”
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Andrew Harnik / AP The GOP Health-Care Bill's Byrd Rule Dilemma
The Senate parliamentarian’s rejection of important provisions of the GOP’s Obamacare repeal bill puts its status in further jeopardy.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The GOP Escalates Its Battle With the CBO
In an 11th hour push to repeal Obamacare, Republicans are leaning on a murky analysis that supports their plan.
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Mark Wilson / Getty The CBO Scored the Latest Draft of the Senate's Health-Care Bill
The budget agency found the Senate’s new version of its Obamacare-replacement plan would leave the same number of people uninsured as the original.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump's Voter-Fraud Commission Has Its First Meeting
The Kris Kobach-led effort faces at least seven federal lawsuits and claims of voter suppression as it moves to set its agenda.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Repeal, Replace, or Delay?
With the latest draft of his Obamacare replacement defeated by Republican Party holdouts, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is re-upping an old strategy. But it’s hard to see why senators would sign on.
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Tricia McInroy / AP What the 'Crack Baby' Panic Reveals About The Opioid Epidemic
Journalism in two different eras of drug waves illustrates how strongly race factors into empathy and policy.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Cruz Plan Would Splinter Health Insurance Markets
The Better Care Reconciliation Act already increases the risk of death spirals. Under new proposed additions, that risk becomes a near-certainty.
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Steve Helber / AP Pat Robertson Gives Trump a Pass on Russia
The 700 Club host’s 50-year enmity toward the Kremlin didn’t stop him from accepting the president’s policies.
