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Jonno Rattman for The Atlantic The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump
Merrick Garland hasn’t tipped his hand, but it’s clear to me that he will bring charges against the former president.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Alabama Department of … Dead Man Living
What happened when Alabama tried and failed to kill Alan Eugene Miller
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Chicago History Museum / MPI / Getty; The … Chicago Could Be a Model for the Future of Miranda Rights
The city will now be required by law to provide every person in custody with prompt access to an attorney both over the phone and in person.
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Matt Rourke / AP What Does the Philadelphia D.A. Do Now?
Depending on whom you ask, Larry Krasner is either embattled or thriving.
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Yuki Iwamura / AFP / Getty Trump’s Terrible Week
E. Jean Carroll, the New York attorney general, and a panel of judges are piling on the former president.
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Getty; The Atlantic Trump Opened Pandora’s Prosecutorial Box
For centuries America has avoided seriously considering whether former presidents should ever be prosecuted. Now that luxury is gone.
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Scott Olson / Getty 1990s Policing: Overrated or Underrated?
Spiking homicides reignite a criminal-justice quandary.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted
A revealing photo removed any remaining ambiguity.
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Department of Justice / AP Trump Can’t Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo
The Department of Justice keeps outsmarting the former president in its efforts to recover the government’s classified materials.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Most Important Public Servants You’ve Never Heard Of
We need to ensure that inspectors general can do an effective job of keeping other government officials honest.
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Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Donald J. Trump Guide to Getting Away With Anything
The former president has a knack for avoiding consequences for his misbehavior.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Paul Manafort Is Back
It isn’t pretty.
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John J. Custer Dead to Rights
What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution?
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Getty; The Atlantic ‘The Opposite of a Raid’
A former federal prosecutor explains what might have gone into the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.
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Megan Varner / Getty What Comes After the Search Warrant?
Why August 8 may become a new hinge point in U.S. history
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Reuters / The Atlantic Should the Parkland Shooter Die?
A Florida jury will have to render a judgment only heaven can make.
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Al Drago-Pool / Getty The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Getting Stronger
Trump might clear the bar for incitement on January 6, and that’s far from his only legal risk.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The DOJ Must Prosecute Trump
The January 6 committee has provided overwhelming evidence that the former president was not some bit player along for the ride, but the central driver of a nefarious plot.
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Getty; The Atlantic Where the Crawdads Sing Author Wanted for Questioning in Murder
A televised 1990s killing in Zambia has striking similarities to Delia Owens’s best-selling book turned movie.
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Mark Peterson / Redux What Happened to Michael Flynn?
In military intelligence, he was renowned for his skill connecting the dots and finding terrorists. But somewhere along the way, his dot detector began spinning out of control.
