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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Cynical Selling of Jeff Sessions as a Civil-Rights Champion
The new attorney general had strong conservative credentials, but no record as a civil-rights advocate. So his defenders invented one.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Fear of Muslim Immigrants
The Alabama senator and attorney general-nominee has a record of public statements portraying Muslim immigrants in menacing terms.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters More Trouble for Andrew Puzder
President Trump’s nominee for labor secretary—already stalled in the Senate—disclosed that his family employed an undocumented immigrant.
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J.C. Buttre / Wikimedia Frederick Douglass, Refugee
Throughout modern history, the millions forced to flee as refugees and beg for asylum have felt Douglass’s agony, and thought his thoughts.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters For Trump, 'We Have a Lot of Killers' Isn't a Criticism
There’s no evidence that the president thinks innocence, or non-violence, are principles to which the United States should aspire.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters What Effective Protest Could Look Like
Perspective from the right on Trump’s political challenge for the left
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Don't Politicize the Failed Yemen Raid
America cannot punish its elected officials for allowing its military, diplomatic corps, and intelligence services to take risks necessary to pursue its interests.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How Trump Is Changing Immigration Enforcement
The president’s directive on immigration might resemble the record deportations of Obama’s first term—but without the corresponding push for legalization.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump Declares a Vision of Religious Nationalism
At the annual prayer breakfast in Washington, the president focused on the violent, ideological threats to America.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters First, They Excluded the Irish
President Trump may block entry to foreigners who need public benefits—a proposal rooted in 19th-century laws targeting a wave of impoverished immigrants.
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Ted Soqui / Reuters Strangers in the Land of the Free
Iranian Jews are a refugee community, and some see the ban as a tragedy for the country they now claim as their own.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Is President Trump’s Immigration Order a 'Muslim Ban'?
Yes. Here’s why.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Courts Stay Trump's Order Targeting Muslims, but Confusion Reigns
At Dulles International Airport on Sunday, lawyers and activists feared federal officials were ignoring court decisions staying the president’s executive order restricting travel from several mostly Muslim nations.
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Kamil Krzaczynski / Reuters An Evangelical Christian Defends Trump’s First Week in Office
The radio-show host Eric Metaxas believes protesters and the media are overreacting to the president’s executive order on refugees and immigration.
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Khalil Ashawi / Reuters What America Owes Refugees From the Middle East
People are fleeing in part because of American foreign-policy decisions.
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Alex Brandon / AP What Trump's Reshuffling of the National Security Council Means
The president made significant changes to the council’s most influential committees, but the real concern is whether he will incorporate it into his decision-making process at all.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Sloppy, Unconstitutional Order on 'Sanctuary Cities'
The president’s executive order threatening to deny federal funds to jurisdictions that don’t help the feds deport undocumented immigrants reads like it was drafted by Lionel Hutz.
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Alex Brandon / AP 'Let Them In'
In Washington, D.C., a crowd descended on the White House to protest President Trump’s executive order on immigration.
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Joe Penney / Reuters This Is What It's Like to Come to the United States as a Refugee
One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union
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Jose Luis Magana / AP ‘Nobody Wants to Run for Office’
Why elite Millennials have an aversion to electoral politics—and how Trump might change their attitudes
