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Cliff Owen / AP The GOP's Risky Calculation for 2018
Congressional Republicans and President Trump are governing in a manner that appeals only to their base, not the wider electorate. That could have consequences through 2020.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Between the Lines of Jim Comey's Testimony
The former FBI director left a number of hints about where the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election could go.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Criminal-Justice Reformers Pin Their Hopes on Jared Kushner
On the Hill, the president’s adviser and son-in-law is seen as the best chance to get support from the White House.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Senate Republican Calling 'Nonsense' on President Trump
Standing up for Democrats, Charles Grassley is challenging the administration’s policy of ignoring most oversight demands from Congress.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Incompetence Defense
Republican senators suggest Trump is innocent because he didn’t try very hard to obstruct justice, or because he was bad at it.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters What Did Mike Pompeo Do?
Reports that Trump asked intelligence chiefs to help shut down the investigation into Michael Flynn raise the question of whether the CIA director was asked to do the same, and how he reacted if he was.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Tweets May Have Sunk His Travel Ban
The president fires off some ill-advised tweets confirming the legal arguments opposed to his policy
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters The Trump Administration Issues a Defense of Stonewalling Congress
The White House says that under the law, it only has to respond to records requests that come from committee chairmen—who all happen to be Republicans. Democrats say it amounts to a ‘gag order.’
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump's Travel Ban Is Headed for a Supreme Court Showdown
Will the justices, many of whom worked in the executive branch, hold the president’s words against him?
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handout / Reuters Why Would Jared Kushner Trust Russian Officials So Much?
A Washington Post report suggests the president's son-in-law and adviser sought to give Moscow information he wanted to conceal from America's own intelligence agencies.
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Stringer / Reuters The Lesser Part of Valor
Preston Brooks, Greg Gianforte, and the American tradition of disguising cowardice as bravery
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Mike Blake / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Agenda for the Civil-Rights Division
The Trump administration's budget envisions staff reductions and a diminished focus on traditional civil-rights enforcement.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Trump Organization Says It’s ‘Not Practical’ to Comply With the Emoluments Clause
The president’s business tells lawmakers it is too difficult to track all its foreign revenue in accordance with constitutional requirements, and it hasn’t asked Congress for a permission slip.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Supreme Court's Immigration Law Showdown
The justices will face a number of challenges that have tremendous implications for life in the Trump era.
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Mel Evans / AP The Phantom Infrastructure Proposal in Trump's Budget
The president promised to pour $1 trillion into rebuilding the nation’s roads and bridges. His proposal sets aside just $200 billion, with the details still to come.
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Reuters Staff The Pontiff Versus the Mogul
President Trump prepares to meet Pope Francis as his recently released budget shows just how different his philosophy is from the one that drives the leader of the world’s Catholics.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Questions About Obstruction Now Spread to White House Staff
Reports that presidential aides asked senior intelligence officials to help shut down the FBI investigation put those staffers in legal jeopardy.
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Jeff Gentner / AP The 18 Independent Agencies Trump Wants to Eliminate
The president’s budget suggests entirely eliminating these bodies, from the Appalachian Regional Commission to the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Makes Presidential Disability a Political Question
Nothing in the text or history of the amendment is stopping the vice president, the Cabinet, and Congress from determining that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
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Susan Walsh / AP 'A Mercy Move for Milwaukee'
As assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, Sheriff David Clarke might have less direct authority than he wields over inmates in the county jails.
