Politics

Throughout the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump assured Americans that if he were to become president, he would only hire “the best people.” Trump’s ability to follow through on this promise has been undermined by a growing number of administration officials who have either resigned, been fired, been indicted or found …

Oliver North led the opening prayer at the annual NRA national convention in Dallas, Texas, over the weekend, as he has in previous years. “Heavenly father, when our day is done, let it be said of us that we were a people who fought the good fight, who finished the …

A few years before he started working for Donald Trump, and long before he gave legal advice to people like Fox News personality Sean Hannity, Michael D. Cohen had a different kind of clientele. Cohen roamed the courthouses of New York City, filing lawsuits on behalf of people with little …

Paul Ryan has really screwed his own party. In the 48 hours or so since the Speaker’s sudden retirement announcement, Republicans find themselves in even greater jeopardy of losing their House majority in November, and pundits on the right and left are painting Ryan as one of three things: a …

How quickly can a big, modern, technologically-advanced city be transformed into something like a giant refugee camp? We may soon find out. Cape Town, South Africa – a city with a population of more than four million people – is about to run out of fresh drinking water. Unless the …

Have the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School changed the game? In the wake of the Parkland massacre that killed 17 children and educators, there’s no question the students have changed the national conversation. Survivors of this mass shooting have called “B.S.” on empty Republican pieties – rejecting “thoughts …

Erica Garner, activist and daughter of slain police victim Eric Garner, died unexpectedly of heart failure at the end of 2017. She was only 27, and left behind two small children. She also had unfinished business. In the last months of her life, she had been planning to release a …

The recent twister of sexual assault allegations continues to rip through Washington – taking out a senator and numerous House members and high-profile journalists – but it has yet to strengthen enough to even dent President Trump. A group of Democratic lawmakers say that has to change. More than a …

Despite its legislative setbacks of the past year, the presidency of Donald Trump has been stunningly effective in its core mission, the dismantling of modern American government as it has evolved since the Progressive Era of the early 20th Century. And even though a civil war looms inside the Republican …

This story was reported in partnership with The Investigative Fund and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. Additional reporting: Aaron Sankin, Laura Starecheski, Michael Corey, Jaime Longoria and Jasper Craven. The revelations overcame Edgar Maddison Welch like a hallucinatory fever. On December 1st, 2016, the father of two from …