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Partnership for Public Service / Flickr The Oscars, but for Federal Employees
The FBI’s chief bomb expert, a Secret Service cyber-investigator, and the developer of a life-saving medical computer are among the honorees of annual awards for government service known as the Sammies.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Even the Government’s Smartest Lawyers Can’t Figure Out Religious Liberty
Conflicts between secular ideals and tenets of faith are ultimately problems of culture, not law.
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D Ramey Logan / Wikimedia / Zak Bickel … Utah Is 2016's Strangest Swing State
A deep-red state has become coveted territory for Hillary Clinton and a source of shame for Donald Trump. How did Mormons become the redeemers of a disgust-filled campaign?
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How Trump Betrayed Ann Coulter on Immigration
The political commentator may be more committed to the Republican nominee’s platform than he is.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Trump Has to Choose: Lose Like Dukakis, or Like Goldwater
If the Republican nominee is defeated in a landslide, the party may be powerless to influence Clinton's agenda and administration.
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Charles Dharapak / AP The Clinton Transition Team Takes Shape
Former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other veterans of the last two Democratic administrations will lead the planning effort for 2017.
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Chuck Burton / AP The Trump Administration Is Already Under Construction
The Obama administration is giving the two parties’ nominees office space and a first glimpse of the government’s secret intelligence.
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Chris Carlson / AP / Paul Spella / … What It’s Like to Write Speeches for the Conventions
Somewhere in the basements of Philadelphia, wordsmiths are crafting the messages of 2016.
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Reuters Trump Time Capsule #40: 'Back to Mike Pence'
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Obama on Attack in Nice: ‘This Is a Threat to All of Us’
The president preached tolerance and unity in a White House address Friday afternoon.
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Nancy Wiechec / Reuters Loretta Lynch: ‘I Certainly Wouldn’t Do It Again’
The nation’s top law-enforcement official speaks out on her tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton, and how she’ll handle the investigation of Hillary Clinton.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters President Obama Names the First LGBT National Monument
The Stonewall Inn and its surrounding areas “changed the nation’s history,” he said on Friday.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Donald Trump's Coalition of Restoration
The Republican’s support comes from voters who are resistant to demographic change—but they’re a distinct minority.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Democrats Fight Back on Gun Control
The Obama administration offered a withering attack on the senators who voted down a series of measures aimed at tightening regulations on firearms.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republican Solution to Red Tape
Government mandates can’t hurt the economy if they’re stuck in legislative gridlock.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Problem With Calling Out Judges for Their Race
Donald Trump has no legal justification for questioning Gonzalo Curiel.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump and the Fear of Evil in America
The U.S. presidential candidate appeals to white evangelicals in part because he taps into common suspicions.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Have Twitter Bots Infiltrated the 2016 Election?
Some say Donald Trump has boosted his massive online following with automated accounts. But there’s more to it than that.
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Richard Drew / AP Trump Takes Aim at the Independent Judiciary
The Republican candidate isn’t directly attacking democracy—but he’s targeting the institutions that sustain it.
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Ben Brewer / Reuters The Downside of Democracy
A 1979 book on presidential selection inadvertently predicted the rise of Trump—and the weakness of a popular primary system.
