The Trump Administration Is Completely Unravelling the U.S. Asylum System
A new decision from Attorney General Jeff Sessions means that the U.S. will turn away the tens of thousands of women who arrive in this country every year, seeking safety from domestic violence at home.
How the Trump Administration Got Comfortable Separating Immigrant Kids from Their Parents
Separating families at the border is now an outright component of the Trump Administration's zero-tolerance immigration policy.
The Case of the Missing Immigrant Children
Trump Administration officials are acting as if there were a secure system in place for dealing with children who are taken away from their parents at the border. There is not.
Taking Children from Their Parents Is a Form of State Terror
In Putin's Russia, threatening to separate families is a way to rule by fear. It's a lesson the Trump Administration seems to be learning.
By Masha Gessen
Jeff Sessions and Anglo-Americanism
Sessions is the Attorney General, and when he speaks it is to the public generally; he is supposed to make our system of justice more transparent, not less so.
February 5, 2018 Issue
Questions That Mueller Might Ask Trump
The most consequential could involve the President's understanding of the rule of law.
Politics and More Podcast
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes in Washington
Ryan Lizza joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how Presidents contain political scandals, and whether Trump is succeeding with the cascading Russia revelations.
By Dorothy Wickenden
It's All Connected: Jeff Sessions, Roy Moore, and a New Russia Investigation
What do Republicans want from Attorney General Jeff Sessions? And what does that have to do with Hillary Clinton or Roy Moore?
A Trump Official Behind the End of DACA Explains Himself
A recent deposition offers a rare glimpse of an Administration official candidly discussing the development of a major policy area.
"I Don't Like Either One": Alabama Republicans Consider Their Options
"You've got Roy Moore, who's a little too far right. And then you've got the other one—his name is Strange, and he is just strange."
By Charles Bethea