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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The Psychiatrist Telling Congress Trump Could Be Involuntarily Committed
A Yale professor says she’s telling lawmakers that the president may actually be “dangerous.”
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Saul Loeb / Getty Images Who Is Steve Bannon Without Breitbart?
Just a few months after leaving the Trump administration, the former top White House adviser has been pushed out of the conservative outlet he helped make influential.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump Disbands His 'Voter Fraud' Commission
Launched after the president claimed millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election, the panel faced stiff opposition and numerous lawsuits.
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Kevin Liles The Voters of Alabama
Portraits from the Yellowhammer state, where Democrat Doug Jones defeated Republican Roy Moore in the special election for Senate on Tuesday
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Alex Wong / Getty Trump Tests the Limits of Shame
The president attacked a senator who has emerged as a crusader against all manner of sexual misbehavior by political leaders.
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Reuters Can Forensic Linguistics Pin Down the Author of a Trump Tweet?
Using data to assess whether the president's lawyer really wrote a message that renewed questions about obstruction of justice.
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Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP Donna Brazile's Tell-All Is Troubling For the Wrong Reasons
Instead of contributing to our understanding of what happened in 2016, Hacks muddies the waters.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Selective Memory
The attorney general’s sworn testimony before the Senate is at odds with other accounts.
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Library of Congress What Is a 'Proactive Cooperator'?
Former Trump foreign-policy aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents during the Russia investigation, may have been secretly cooperating with investigators for months.
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Keith Lane / Getty How the Manafort Indictment Gave Bite to a Toothless Law
The prosecution of Trump’s former campaign chairman and his associate Rick Gates could be the most significant prosecution under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ever.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters What Is Really Unprecedented About Trump?
In many respects, the way that the president thinks about politics is utterly conventional.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The National-Security-Law Expert Who Blocked Trump's Travel Ban
The former federal prosecutor and deputy counsel to the Department of Homeland Security writes that the prohibition violates the Constitution.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump Is Rush-Shipping Condolences to Military Families
Four families of fallen servicemembers received next-day UPS letters from President Trump after a turbulent week in which Trump falsely claimed he had called “virtually all” of the families.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters What John McCain Gets Wrong About Trump's Nationalism
The last seventy-five years of American foreign policy are not the story of a country consistently pursuing democratic ideals, only to see them undermined now by a fearful “blood and soil” isolationism.
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Tami Chappell / Reuters The Muted GOP Response to Roy Moore's Anti-Muslim Prejudice
The would-be Alabama Senator cements a Republican Party transition to acceptance of open intolerance of Muslims that is a long time coming.
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AP The Republican Attack on Feeding the Hungry
GOP budget proposals take aim at one of America’s most significant bipartisan achievements.
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Brynn Anderson / AP The Breitbart Universe Unites for Roy Moore
Everyone from Steve Bannon to Nigel Farage came out on Monday for the Alabama judge turned aspiring senator’s closing rally.
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Tami Chappell / Reuters Alabama's Strange Senate Rivalry
The contest between Luther Strange and Roy Moore raises the question of who has more sway with Trump’s base: the president or conservative firebrands like Steve Bannon?
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Aaron Clamage / Partnership for Public Service / … Honoring the Best in a Workforce 'Under Siege'
A Treasury Department investigator and two groundbreaking engineers will receive annual awards for government service, which come at a time of peak anxiety for federal employees.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Accountability Is for Non-Celebrities
Sean Spicer at the Emmys? It’s the latest illustration that members of the establishment are held to different standards.
