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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Battle Over LGBT Discrimination Is Just Beginning
The Trump administration steps into an on-going legal battle over civil rights—and steps on another agency’s turf.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why Trump Might Fire Robert Mueller
President Trump is reportedly considering drastic action to end the Russia investigation.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The War on the Freedom of Information Act
A conservative group is resisting congressional efforts to kneecap FOIA.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Scaramucci Takeover
The choice of the former hedge funder and ardent Trump loyalist reflected longstanding dissatisfaction with Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
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Richard Brian / Reuters Who Is Anthony Scaramucci?
Like many current presidential advisers, the new White House communications director and former Wall Street financier made a quick pivot from Trump basher to Trump loyalist.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Mueller Can Pursue Whatever Crimes He Uncovers
There are no legal or ethical reasons for the special counsel to turn away if he discovers indications of misconduct that are unrelated to the original Russia inquiry.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Sean Spicer Is Out and Anthony Scaramucci Is In at the White House
President Trump’s press secretary has resigned in protest of the president's decision to name a former hedge-fund executive as communications director.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Anything They Can Do, Trump Can Do Better
No matter what the subject, the president finds someone to compare himself to. And in every comparison, he comes out the winner.
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Nick Didlick / Reuters All the Presidents' Dirty Tricks
Politicians have done some grim things in pursuit of the presidency, but there have also been times when people did the opposite: behaving morally when it was easier not to.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Projection President
Months into his tenure, Trump still responds to controversies by lobbing the same charges at his opponents.
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James Lawler Duggan / Reuters Jeff Sessions Claimed He Never Met Foreign Officials on a Key Security Form
A page from the attorney general’s documents, used to apply for a security clearance, were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Bryan Snyder / Reuters How to Know Who Will Let Trump Get Away With Anything
The defenses of the president’s son for seeking a meeting with a Kremlin-connected attorney make clear that some conservatives will never abandon this White House.
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T. Sully / Library of Congress The Revival of John Quincy Adams
The sixth president, long derided as a hapless elitist, is suddenly relevant again 250 years after his birth.
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AP When the Nation's Capital Came Together for the MLB All-Star Game
In the throes of the Great Depression, residents and lawmakers rallied around the summer event.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Generational Significance of the Travel Ban Cases
The Supreme Court could leave a legacy as enduring as Brown v Board of Education.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Trump's Grudges Are His Agenda
The president’s personal attacks are not a distraction from his policy goals. They are his policy goals.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Sally Yates on Bob Mueller: ‘Folks Ought to Have Tremendous Confidence in Him’
The former acting attorney general says she believes the Department of Justice can withstand anything that happens during the Trump administration.
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AP Watergate Lawyer: The Trump Administration Would Fire Mueller 'At Their Peril'
Rufus Edmisten reflects on his time working on the Senate Watergate Committee.
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Andrew Harnik / AP The Kremlin's Election Meddling Is Paying Off
The president’s policies in office have aligned almost perfectly with Vladimir Putin’s goals.
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Rashid Abbasi / Reuters The Supreme Court's Ominous National Security Ruling
The verdict could have significant implications for the case testing the Trump administration’s “travel ban,” barring entry of persons from six majority-Muslim countries.
