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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Begins His Religion World Tour
The American president’s first international trip has been explicitly framed in terms of religious identity.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Say It Ain't So Joe!
I admire former Senator Lieberman, which is why I don’t think he should become head of the FBI.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Can Jeff Sessions Be Independent?
Recent revelations suggesting the president pressured his now-ousted FBI director raise questions about the attorney general’s autonomy.
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Khue Bui / AP How Does Impeachment Work?
The framers all agreed that the power to remove the executive would have to be lodged somewhere.
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Aaron Bernstein / Reuters Congressional Republicans Are Quietly Shifting on Trump
House Speaker Paul Ryan’s press conference showed that the GOP is slowly changing its tune on the president.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters American Institutions Strike Back
The president’s incompetence may yet save the country that put him in the White House.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Trump: ‘In America We Do Not Worship Government, We Worship God’
After a week of chaos in Washington, the president finally found a friendly crowd at Liberty University.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Garland Gambit
Republicans floating Merrick Garland for FBI director should be careful what they wish for.
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Cliff Owen / AP 'Protecting Religious Freedom Is a Foreign-Policy Priority of the Trump Administration'
How—and when—will the White House carry out its verbal commitment to protect persecuted minorities overseas?
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters L'Etat, C'est Trump
The president and his advisors believe loyalty to the country and loyalty to him are the same thing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Trump Was Surprised by the Comey Backlash
Given the president’s feelings on personal pique, he might have expected Democrats to welcome the firing of a man they felt cost them the White House.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Tragedy of James Comey
The former FBI director’s attempts to protect the bureau’s independence may have fatally compromised that independence.
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Jae C. Hong / AP Trump's Nixonian Moment
Whether the president was attempting to shut down an investigation, or simply venting his frustration, his dismissal of his FBI director evoked comparisons to the Watergate era.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Rosenstein's Case Against Comey, Annotated
Contextualizing the deputy attorney general’s memorandum on the former FBI director
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How the Firing of the FBI Director Tests Conservatives
James Comey’s dismissal asks the right which they value more: defending a president whose policy agenda they generally support or defending the norms that preserve liberal democracy.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Anthony Kennedy's Choice
The Supreme Court’s conservative swing vote faces a fateful decision.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Democrats Call for an Independent Investigation Into the Election After Trump Fires FBI Director
Congressional reaction split along partisan lines after news broke that the president had dismissed James Comey.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters A Double Dose of Lawlessness
Monday’s court proceedings and Senate hearings offered troubling insight into how the Trump White House regards the rule of law.
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Luca Bruno / AP Obama Faces the Ex-President's Dilemma
The former president must decide how to remain an influential player in the world without intervening too much in the national debate.
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Evan Vucci / AP It Was Cultural Anxiety That Drove White, Working-Class Voters to Trump
A new study finds that fear of societal change, not economic pressure, motivated votes for the president among non-salaried workers without college degrees.
