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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Comey Memos Won't Derail the Mueller Probe
The release of the documents seems unlikely to harm the current stage of the investigation, but if Congress keeps tipping the special counsel’s hand, that could change.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Why Stormy Daniels Poses a Problem for Democrats
The intense media focus on President Trump’s personal dramas hurts the party’s ability to sell its message to the voters it needs most.
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Brennan Linsley / AP Ten Questions Trump's CIA Director Nominee Should Answer
Gina Haspel’s upcoming confirmation hearings will be a rare opportunity to ask about some of the agency’s most secretive and controversial methods.
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Hannah McKay / Reuters Why Did Trump Fire Tillerson Now?
The specific timing of the move—following the secretary of state’s split from the president to condemn a Russian attack in the U.K.—raises questions about its motive.
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Michael Sohn / AP What's at Stake as Trump Replaces Gary Cohn
There are three ways the president might turn—and his choice will force clarity about his administration’s direction.
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Ron Edmonds / AP Why the Russia Investigation Could Be More Like Iran-Contra Than Watergate
Complexity, partisanship, and a strong presidential narrative insulated Ronald Reagan from meeting the same fate as Richard Nixon, and those factors could also protect Donald Trump.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The President's Power to Hide Secret Details About the Russia Investigation
Executive power means Donald Trump can classify or declassify memos that may implicate him.
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Reuters / Handout The Precedent for Trump's Administration Isn't Nixon—It's Clinton
A network analysis of the structure of the president's inner circle suggests some surprising parallels.
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Keith Srakocic / AP Contempt for Court
Republican lawmakers are increasingly showing disdain for decisions made by the judicial branch—and by extension the rule of law.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Trump Won't Declassify Democratic Rebuttal to Nunes
The White House Counsel said the president was “inclined to declassify” the Democrats’ memo, but that “he is unable to do so at this time” because the memo contains “numerous properly classified and especially sensitive passages.”
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Evan Vucci / AP Inflationary Populism Is Trump's Path Forward
After advancing traditional Republican policies in his first year, the president has an opportunity to deliver the gains he promised his voters.
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Evan Vucci / AP Why Didn’t the White House See Domestic Violence as Disqualifying?
That the president’s staff was unable to recognize the seriousness of the allegations against Rob Porter may reflect how many members of his team have faced similar claims—including Trump himself.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Republicans Release the Nunes Memo to the Fury of Democrats
President Trump authorized the release of the unredacted memorandum over strident objections from top law-enforcement officials, as Democrats blasted it as deliberately misleading.
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Leah Mills / Reuters Trump's Immigration Plan Receives a Chilly Reception
Republicans are banking on passing legislation on the issue to help them coast into November—and they’ll need Democratic votes to make it happen.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters There's No Way Mueller Will Indict Trump
Those hoping the special counsel will prosecute the president are engaging in fantasy.
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Haim Zach GPO This Is Not the Israel Trip Mike Pence Had Planned
The U.S. vice president promised peace in the country’s newly recognized capital, but his itinerary showed that a deal is far beyond reach.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters 'He’s Chosen This Movement as His Own'
At the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., pro-life activists said the president has a lot to be proud of.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP How Trump Will Try to Minimize a Government Shutdown
The administration plans to keep national parks and public lands partially open even without congressional funding, drawing criticism from Sally Jewell, the former secretary of the interior.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Five Decades of White Backlash
President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.
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AP How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government
Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.
