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Nathan W. Armes / AP Trump's Proposal to Scrap the Agency Devoted to Developing Appalachia
The Appalachian Regional Commission distributes grants in states that voted for the president, and works to revitalize coal-mining communities.
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Jason Reed / Reuters The Dangerous Precedent Set by Judicial Attacks on Trump's Travel Ban
Judge Derrick Watson’s imaginative reasoning asserts a new power to disregard formal law if the president’s words create a basis for mistrusting his motives.
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Hugh Gentry / Reuters Why Trump's Revised Travel Ban Could Still Succeed
Despite judicial setbacks, federal law leaves open the possibility that the president’s new executive order might prevail––if he can keep quiet.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP President Trump's 'Hard Power' Budget
Allocating more money for defense and a lot less for diplomacy, the White House is unveiling a spending proposal that’s meant to reflect campaign promises more than it’s meant to get through Congress.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Where Trump's Popularity Matters—and Where It Doesn't
The president’s national approval rating is dismal, but his strong standing in Republican congressional districts is keeping the party’s health-care bill afloat for now.
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Alex Brandon / AP How Significant Are Trump's Attacks on Obama?
In the latest entry in their ongoing conversation, two historians debate the significance of the president’s wiretapping claims.
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Patrick Fallon / Reuters Customs Agents' Unreasonable Demand
Why the immigration authorities ID search of a domestic flight at JFK is on weak legal ground.
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David Ryder / Reuters Trump’s ‘Honor Killing’ Tracking System Could Exacerbate Domestic Violence
The president has ordered agencies to report “acts of gender-based violence against women … by foreign nationals." Advocates and mental-health practitioners are skeptical.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Trump Is Accusing Obama of Wiretapping
The president’s attacks on his predecessor may be intended to discredit the results of any inquiry into his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russian officials.
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Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress America’s Forgotten History of Illegal Deportations
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, the country carried out a wave of unconstitutional raids that affected as many as 1.8 million people. Is it on the verge of doing so again?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Unforced Error
The attorney general’s testimony about communications with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign has landed him in hot water.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why California Is Environmentalists' Trump Card
Unique authority granted to the golden state allows it to have a profound impact on emissions regulations.
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Reuters A Night When Trump Acted Normal
On the least alarming day of his presidency so far, Trump stopped indulging his every impulse, obtained a prepared speech, and stuck to it like a normal politician.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Will Conservative Budget Hawks Cave to Trump?
The president’s budget leaves Social Security and Medicare untouched, much to the frustration of small-government conservatives.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Budget Proposal Threatens Democratic and Republican Ambitions
The military and older whites are the big winners in the president’s budget proposal, Democratic constituencies and Republican budget hawks are the big losers.
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Alex Brandon / AP Why Is Trump Silent on Islamophobic Attacks?
The president has faced pressure to condemn anti-Semitism, but does not face the same demands to condemn anti-Muslim sentiment.
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Getty / Chip Somodevilla / Zak Bickel / … How the FBI Is Hobbled by Religious Illiteracy
The Bureau has long defended “Judeo-Christianity.” Minority groups have not fared as well.
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Alex Brandon / AP The High Cost of Politicizing Intelligence
Trump is undermining America’s national security by trying to shape analysis to support his world view.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters When Does Contact Between the FBI and the White House Cross the Line?
The administration admits to asking the bureau’s deputy director to help it knock down a damaging story about the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP An Actual False-Flag Operation at CPAC
Meet the protesters who tricked conference attendees into waving Russian flags.
