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Alex Brandon / AP Advice for Those Weighing Jobs in the Trump Administration
Assessing the risks of service
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Trump Administration Pledges Allegiance to Pro-Life America
"We will not rest until we restore a culture of life in America,” vowed Vice President Pence at the March for Life on Friday.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years
The president is taking the United States back to the nightmares of the world before the Second World War: closed borders, limited trade, and a go-it-alone national race to the bottom.
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Josh Shank / Rocket Republic Will the Pro-Life Movement Split With Trump on Issues Other Than Abortion?
The president has quickly moved to restrict abortion. He has also curtailed access for refugees and jeopardized health care for millions of Americans.
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Andrew Nelles / Reuters Chicago's Police Aren't 'Overly Politically Correct'
President Trump’s assumption that law-enforcement officers in Chicago are too restrained gets the city’s challenges precisely backward.
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Matt Rourke / AP Trump's Detail-Free First Pitch to Republicans
“This Congress is going to be the busiest Congress we’ve had in decades, maybe ever,” the president told lawmakers, before leaving without taking questions.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Congressional Republicans Suddenly Lose Interest in Executive Overreach
GOP leaders denounced Barack Obama’s reliance on unilateral orders, but they’re fine with Trump’s actions—so far.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why the President Is Feuding With the Media and the Intelligence Community
If Trump prevails in these fights, he could do more than simply enact his agenda; he could alter aspects of our political culture in ways that will be difficult to reverse.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Trump Bring Back Torture?
It will take more than the executive branch to revive the practice.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The White House Clings to False Claims of Massive Voter Fraud
Trump announced a new investigation, and his team has cited “studies” suggesting millions of non-citizens cast ballots in November. Little evidence supports this claim.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Will Trump Cut Medicare and Social Security?
Mick Mulvaney, the nominee for budget director, told senators Tuesday that he’d recommend significant changes to entitlement programs—even if they contradict the president’s campaign pledges.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Professionalism, Propaganda, and the Press
The Trump administration seems wedded to a political strategy of lying to the public, challenging the media to adjust.
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Saul Loeb / Pool / AP Donald Trump's Authoritarian Politics of Memory
Driven by opportunism, pragmatism, or fear, many begin to forget that they used to think certain things were unacceptable.
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Evan Vucci / AP How Democrats Paved the Way for the Confirmation of Trump's Cabinet
As the president’s picks run into trouble, Democrats find themselves stymied by a Senate rules change they engineered.
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Harry Hamburg / AP Mick Mulvaney's Unpaid Taxes
Donald Trump’s nominee for budget director disclosed to the Senate that he failed to pay taxes for a household employee in the early 2000s.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Democrats Are Unprepared for the Trump Era
After an unexpected loss in November, Democrats are nowhere near ready to take on the president-elect.
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Alex Brandon / AP Sessions Exaggerated His Record on Gun Prosecutions
The nominee for attorney general said his office led federal gun prosecutions during his tenure as a U.S. attorney, but available records don’t support that statement.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Obama Built an ‘Infrastructure’ for Civil-Liberties Violations That Trump Will Inherit
In his farewell address, the president highlighted his legacy on national-security issues, but his actions may have opened the way for future abuses.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Why Trump’s Conflict-of-Interest Plan Won't Prevent Conflicts of Interest
“This isn’t the way the presidency has worked since Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1978,” the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics said on Wednesday.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Irrationally Divided Critics of Donald Trump
Cooperation is needed to check an unfit leader. So why are so many critics of the president-elect needlessly turning on one another?
