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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Will America Accept Refugees From Trump's White House?
In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Sean Spicer demonstrated why those fleeing the administration may find it difficult to start fresh.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Projection President
Months into his tenure, Trump still responds to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents.
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Sean Rayford / Brooks Kraft / Chip Somodevilla ... Has Trump Kept His Campaign Promises?
As the president marks 100 days in office, a comprehensive review of his progress toward fulfilling the pledges he made on the trail
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters ‘Protest Is Necessary, but Insufficient’
Anyone can create political power, Eric Liu argues in a new book, but opposition alone won’t win converts to a cause.
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Win McNamee / Getty Images Is There a Case for Liberal Optimism in the Trump Era?
The Democratic Party has lost power at the national level and in state legislatures. Even so, Ruy Teixeira argues that liberals should feel hopeful about the future.
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Alex Brandon / AP Can the Democratic Party Win Back Voters It Lost to Trump?
Liberals may need to decide whether to focus on energizing their base or expanding their coalition.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters 'What We Are Seeing With Trump Is Fundamentally Different'
Two historians weigh in on how to understand the new administration, press relations, and this moment in political time.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Republican Voters Trust Trump More Than GOP Leaders in Congress
If congressional Republicans challenge the president they risk a backlash from their base.
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Dave Kaup / Reuters Milo Yiannopoulos and the Church of Winning
By excusing Donald Trump’s behavior, some evangelical leaders enabled the internet provocateur’s ascent.
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Eric Gay / AP Trump's Favorite Voter-Fraud Activist Hedges His Claims
His work prompted the president's call to investigate the election—but now, he warns it’s too early to draw firm conclusions.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Flawed Defense of His Immigration Order
“The notion that dangerous individuals could rush into the country in the timeframe of a week flies in the face of reality,” according to one immigration lawyer.
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Susan Walsh / AP 'He's Going to Continue to Create Chaos'
Dan P. McAdams, the author of The Atlantic’s June 2016 cover story “The Mind of Donald Trump,” shares what he learned about Trump and what might be expected during his presidency.
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Alex Brandon / AP Advice for Those Weighing Jobs in the Trump Administration
Assessing the risks of service
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years
The president is taking the United States back to the nightmares of the world before the Second World War: closed borders, limited trade, and a go-it-alone national race to the bottom.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Moves Closer to Announcing a Supreme Court Nominee
The president says he’ll reveal his choice to fill the vacant high-court seat next week.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The White House Can't Easily Repair Its Relationship With the Media
Press Secretary Sean Spicer continued to suggest on Monday that the media is attempting to undercut the president.
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Mike Derer / AP The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
One of the women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct has sued him for defamation after he labeled her claims false.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Donald Trump's Eternal Campaign
The new president’s first actions in office suggest his style from the trail isn’t going away soon.
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Saul Loeb / Pool / AP Donald Trump's Authoritarian Politics of Memory
Driven by opportunism, pragmatism, or fear, many begin to forget that they used to think certain things were unacceptable.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How the 'Alt-Right' Came to Dominate the Comments on Trump's Facebook Page
Over the course of the campaign, the comments left on the president’s official Facebook page increasingly employed the rhetoric of white nationalism.
