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Reuters Staff The Pontiff Versus the Mogul
President Trump prepares to meet Pope Francis as his recently released budget shows just how different his philosophy is from the one that drives the leader of the world’s Catholics.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Questions About Obstruction Now Spread to White House Staff
Reports that presidential aides asked senior intelligence officials to help shut down the FBI investigation put those staffers in legal jeopardy.
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Jeff Gentner / AP The 18 Independent Agencies Trump Wants to Eliminate
The president’s budget suggests entirely eliminating these bodies, from the Appalachian Regional Commission to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The 25th Amendment Makes Presidential Disability a Political Question
Nothing in the text or history of the amendment is stopping the vice president, Cabinet, and Congress from determining that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
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Susan Walsh / AP 'A Mercy Move for Milwaukee'
As assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, Sheriff David Clarke might have less direct authority than he wields over inmates in the county jails.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Begins His Religion World Tour
The American president’s first international trip has been explicitly framed in terms of religious identity.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Say It Ain't So Joe!
I admire former Senator Lieberman, which is why I don’t think he should become head of the FBI.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Can Jeff Sessions Be Independent?
Recent revelations suggesting the president pressured his now-ousted FBI director raise questions about the attorney general’s autonomy.
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Khue Bui / AP How Does Impeachment Work?
The framers all agreed that the power to remove the executive would have to be lodged somewhere.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Congressional Republicans Are Quietly Shifting on Trump
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s press conference showed that the GOP is slowly changing its tune on the president.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters American Institutions Strike Back
The president’s incompetence may yet save the country that put him in the White House.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump: ‘In America We Do Not Worship Government, We Worship God’
After a week of chaos in Washington, the president finally found a friendly crowd at Liberty University.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Garland Gambit
Republicans floating Merrick Garland for FBI director should be careful what they wish for.
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Cliff Owen / AP 'Protecting Religious Freedom Is a Foreign-Policy Priority of the Trump Administration'
How—and when—will the White House carry out its verbal commitment to protect persecuted minorities overseas?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters L'Etat, C'est Trump
The president and his advisors believe loyalty to the country and loyalty to him are the same thing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Trump Was Surprised by the Comey Backlash
Given the president’s feelings on personal pique, he might have expected Democrats to welcome the firing of a man they felt cost them the White House.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Tragedy of James Comey
The former FBI director’s attempts to protect the bureau’s independence may have fatally compromised that independence.
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Jae C. Hong / AP Trump's Nixonian Moment
Whether the president was attempting to shut down an investigation, or simply venting his frustration, his dismissal of his FBI director evoked comparisons to the Watergate era.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Rosenstein's Case Against Comey, Annotated
Contextualizing the deputy attorney general’s memorandum on the former FBI director
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Firing of the FBI Director Tests Conservatives
James Comey’s dismissal asks the right which they value more: defending a president whose policy agenda they generally support or defending the norms that preserve liberal democracy.
