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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters ‘This Is McCarthyism!’
In an early-morning tweetstorm on Saturday, the president accused his predecessor of a 'Nixon/Watergate' wiretapping scheme against the Trump campaign.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Unforced Error
The attorney general’s testimony about communications with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign has landed him in hot water.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters When Does Contact Between the FBI and the White House Cross the Line?
The administration admits to asking the bureau’s deputy director to help it knock down a damaging story about the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts.
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Marc Serota / Reuters The Scandal That May Haunt the New Nominee for Labor Secretary
R. Alexander Acosta was the head of the civil rights division at the Department of Justice in the Bush administration when subordinates skirted civil-service laws and engaged in politicized hiring.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Should Jeff Sessions Recuse Himself From the Russia Inquiries?
Justice Department regulations appear to suggest the attorney general should not be involved in any investigations into Trump associates’ ties to Russia.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Cynical Selling of Jeff Sessions as a Civil-Rights Champion
The new attorney general had strong conservative credentials, but no record as a civil-rights advocate. So his defenders invented one.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Fear of Muslim Immigrants
The Alabama senator and attorney general-nominee has a record of public statements portraying Muslim immigrants in menacing terms.
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J. David Ake / AP A Dramatic Showdown at the Department of Justice
Donald Trump dismissed the acting attorney general for insubordination, after she refused to defend his immigration order in court.
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Andrew Nelles / Reuters Chicago's Police Aren't 'Overly Politically Correct'
President Trump’s assumption that law-enforcement officers in Chicago are too restrained gets the city’s challenges precisely backward.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Can Trump Bring Back Torture?
It will take more than the executive branch to revive the practice.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Professionalism, Propaganda, and the Press
The Trump administration seems wedded to a political strategy of lying to the public, challenging the media to adjust.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Jeff Sessions's Unqualified Praise for a 1924 Immigration Law
Trump’s pick for attorney general made the remarks during an interview with Breitbart’s Stephen Bannon, now an adviser to the president-elect.
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Mark Foley / AP What Jeff Sessions's Role in Prosecuting the Klan Reveals About His Civil-Rights Record
Defenders of Trump’s choice for attorney general have cited an Alabama lynching case as evidence of his commitment to racial equality. The real story is more complicated.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Did Jeff Sessions Champion Desegregation?
Trump’s nominee for attorney general claims to have “filed 20 or 30” desegregation cases as U.S. attorney in Alabama, but there’s little evidence to support that.
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Mike Segar / Reuters If Jeff Sessions Opposed Lurleen Wallace, Who Did He Support?
Republicans have said that Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee began his career fighting against a segregationist in Alabama. The truth is more complicated.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Will Jeff Sessions Roll Back Civil-Rights Protections?
Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general has a record of hostility toward the federal government's role in curtailing discrimination on the basis of race, sexuality, and immigration status.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency
Donald Trump and his surrogates have shown an uncanny ability to lie in the face of objective facts. They will now have the power of the federal government to help them.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Is This the Second Redemption?
The accomplishments of the first black president will be erased by a man who rose to power on the slander that Barack Obama was not born in America.
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Library of Congress The Battle for Pluralism
It’s the best of America, and its future is uncertain.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How James Comey Hurt the FBI—and the Democratic Process
The FBI director’s decision to disclose an inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails that led nowhere may have irrevocably altered the results of the 2016 balloting.
