The Russia Investigation
The latest news, analysis, and reporting on Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign
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Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP / Getty The Collusion With Russia Is in Plain Sight
What did Donald Trump say to Vladimir Putin when no one else could hear them?
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Chain Reaction That Began When Trump Fired James Comey Is Speeding Up
May 9, 2017, could turn out to be the most consequential day in the history of this presidency.
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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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Alex Wong / Getty The President Humiliates His Own Department of Justice
Donald Trump uses the agency to attack his political enemies.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Trump Can Say ‘Witch Hunt’ as Many Times as He Wants
Using repetition of a message can be persuasive—but the indictments keep coming.
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Mark Wilson / Getty In Trump’s World, Reality Is Negotiable
The president’s resistance to learning will long outlive his administration.
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Frank Augstein / AP What Julian Assange and Donald Trump Have in Common
They share enemies—and they use similarly nihilistic tactics toward similarly antidemocratic ends.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Manafort’s Own Lawyers May Have Hastened His Downfall
The initial failure to redact a sensitive document was the latest in a series of missteps by Paul Manafort’s lawyers.
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David Goldman / AP 10 New Factors That Will Shape the 2020 Democratic Primary
This race for the nomination will be different from any that have come before.
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J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press The Special Counsel Is Bearing Down on Roger Stone
The longtime Trump adviser appears to have asked an associate to obtain anti-Clinton emails from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Note to Michael Flynn: Federal Court Is Not Twitter
A muscular public-relations strategy is often a terrible litigation strategy.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP A Surge in Foreign-Influence Prosecutions
Authorities indict two former associates of Michael Flynn for acting as illegal agents of the Turkish government in the United States.
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Tami Chappell / Reuters Russian Trolls and the Trump Campaign Both Tried to Depress Black Turnout
Two new reports released by the Senate Intelligence Committee underscore how much the Internet Research Agency targeted African Americans—echoing efforts by the campaign.
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Jim Young / Reuters Can Trump Pardon Himself?
He can certainly try it—but that doesn’t mean he’d succeed.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Process Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rudy Giuliani extols the “broken windows” approach to policing but applies a different standard to the Trump White House.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Is Running Out of Alibis
The president has few innocent explanations left for what looks like a conspiracy to violate campaign-finance laws.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Michael Cohen Pays the Price for His ‘Blind Loyalty’ to Trump
The sentencing ended a saga that began with a dramatic FBI raid and led Cohen to implicate the president in criminal misconduct.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump Can’t Stop Confessing
Proving white-collar crimes is an exceedingly difficult task for prosecutors. Trump is doing his best to make it easier.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press A Close Reading of the 235-Page Comey Transcript
The transcript from Friday’s closed-door hearing was made public late Saturday, and it confirms that Mueller is pursuing a possible obstruction-of-justice case against the president.
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Reuters / Department of Justice The Mysterious Return of Manafort’s ‘Russian Brain’
Mueller says that the former Trump campaign chairman repeatedly lied about his interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a man with ties to Russian intelligence.
