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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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Win McNamee / Getty Images Is There a Case for Liberal Optimism in the Trump Era?
The Democratic Party has lost power at the national level and in state legislatures. Even so, Ruy Teixeira argues that liberals should feel hopeful about the future.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters 'What We Are Seeing With Trump Is Fundamentally Different'
Two historians weigh in on how to understand the new administration, press relations, and this moment in political time.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Republican Voters Trust Trump More Than GOP Leaders in Congress
If congressional Republicans challenge the president they risk a backlash from their base.
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Dave Kaup / Reuters Milo Yiannopoulos and the Church of Winning
By excusing Donald Trump’s behavior, some evangelical leaders enabled the internet provocateur’s ascent.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Flawed Defense of His Immigration Order
“The notion that dangerous individuals could rush into the country in the timeframe of a week flies in the face of reality,” according to one immigration lawyer.
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Susan Walsh / AP 'He's Going to Continue to Create Chaos'
Dan P. McAdams, the author of The Atlantic’s June 2016 cover story “The Mind of Donald Trump,” shares what he learned about Trump and what might be expected during his presidency.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP How Trump’s Executive Orders Could Set America Back 70 Years
The president is taking the United States back to the nightmares of the world before the Second World War: closed borders, limited trade, and a go-it-alone national race to the bottom.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Moves Closer to Announcing a Supreme Court Nominee
The president says he’ll reveal his choice to fill the vacant high-court seat next week.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The White House Can't Easily Repair Its Relationship With the Media
Press Secretary Sean Spicer continued to suggest on Monday that the media is attempting to undercut the president.
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Saul Loeb / Pool / AP Donald Trump's Authoritarian Politics of Memory
Driven by opportunism, pragmatism, or fear, many begin to forget that they used to think certain things were unacceptable.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters How the 'Alt-Right' Came to Dominate the Comments on Trump's Facebook Page
Over the course of the campaign, the comments left on the president’s official Facebook page increasingly employed the rhetoric of white nationalism.
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Evan Vucci / Reuters ‘American Carnage’: The Trump Era Begins
Most presidents view inaugural addresses as a rare opportunity to appeal beyond “the base.” This was base-only.
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Jim Bourg / AP Trump's Uneasy Gamble
The 45th President’s inaugural address encapsulated the risky gamble the Republican Party is taking on his combative approach.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Why Some Democrats in Congress Refuse to Attend Trump's Inauguration
“Trump is absolutely trying to attack our democratic institutions and to make the country more authoritarian,” one Democratic lawmaker warns.
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Savo Prelevic / AFP / Getty Can Evangelicals Help Trump Thaw Relations With Russia?
They were Ronald Reagan’s allies during the Cold War. But some now want the president-elect to build bridges with Vladimir Putin.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republican Women Donald Trump Alienated
Conservative women who oppose the incoming president must decide whether to stay in the GOP or leave.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Would Trump's Infrastructure Plan Fix America's Cities?
Public-works projects have historically improved urbanites’ access to opportunity and quality of life. But they've also helped the privileged at the expense of the marginalized.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare?
These voters overwhelmingly oppose the Affordable Care Act. Yet millions of them have gained health-care coverage under the law.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Democratic Party Faces a Daunting Future
It won’t be easy for the party to win back voters lost to the GOP.
