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Timeline: President Trump’s absurd wiretapping allegations and backtracks
Sophia Tesfaye
From right-wing talk radio to Breitbart, to President Trump's Twitter, we track the implosion of his latest claims
“I think that President Obama is owed an apology”: GOP congressman calls on President Trump to apologize for wiretapping accusation
Taylor Link
The White House has grown increasingly isolated in its defense of Trump's unsubstantiated claims
Watch live: Donald Trump hosts news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Katie Serena
It's been a long week for Donald Trump. What will he be asked during his meeting with Angela Merkel?
St. Patrick’s Day walk of shame: Ireland’s prime minister calls on Donny Boy, with the wrong message
Andrew O'Hehir
In America, the Irish are now so white that they're all over the White House, conveniently ignoring history
When billionaires shred people’s health care
Bill Humphrey, Stephan Richter
Nixon nostalgia trip: Trump’s administration already recalls the worst of Tricky Dick
Heather Digby Parton
Eight weeks in, Trump displays all the petty paranoia that sank Nixon — but without his shrewd executive competence
Trump doubles down on Obama wiretapping claims, tells Tucker Carlson that “wiretap covers a lot of different things”
Matthew Rozsa
Trump said Wednesday night that the White House "will be submitting things" to the House Intelligence Committee
Cloudy vision: Jeff Sessions wants to revive Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign with a renewed focus on weed
Sophia Tesfaye
The attorney general called marijuana a "life-wrecking dependency...that’s only slightly less awful" than heroin
House leaders, Jeff Sessions say there’s no evidence that Donald Trump was wiretapped
Matthew Rozsa
The president's assertion that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower is publicly falling apart
“Let it collapse”: Republicans unite around a strategy of blaming Democrats for Obamacare repeal problems
Sophia Tesfaye
The GOP's infighting over a politically toxic law is causing lawmakers to think about a new PR strategy
Paranoia and cronyism: What makes the White House dysfunctional?
Matthew Rozsa
The Trump administration distrusts outsiders and is focusing on loyalty over experience. Here's a partial list
Trump’s big power grab: With the Bharara firing and the “deconstruction” of the executive branch, has he gone too far?
Bob Cesca
There are echoes of Richard Nixon in the president's attempts to purge disloyalty. Will it end as Nixon's term did?
Killing the EPA: Trump administration plans to gut budget, change how pollution is measured
Matthew Rozsa
Trump's plan to alter the "social cost of carbon" number would provide a boon to a number of industries
Everyone’s wrong on immigration: Open borders are the only way to defeat Trump and build a better world
Anis Shivani
This entire debate is built on cruel and false assumptions. Here's the truth: Immigrants' rights are human rights
Trump’s military nostalgia is influenced by the war movies of his youth
Michael T. Klare
Rebuilding a last-century military to fight last-century wars
Defense Secretary James Mattis just learned the White House doesn’t have his back when it comes to choosing staffers
Matthew Rozsa
Mattis was unable to fill his undersecretary for policy post because Trump refused to oppose right-wing senators
Newt Gingrich slams “corrupt,” “dishonest” Congressional Budget Office
Matthew Rozsa
The former House Speaker joins the current budget director in suddenly casting doubt on the CBO
Trump may give the Pentagon more power to launch drone strikes
Matthew Rozsa
The president is bucking a structure set up by Obama late in the game to prevent exactly this type of policy
Behind the prosecutor purge: Jeff Sessions, Preet Bharara and echoes of GOP scandals past
Heather Digby Parton
Was last week's mass firing of U.S. attorneys just Trump paranoia — or an attempt to shut down an investigation?
Frightbart: A virtual stew of menace, a pit of monsters, an unending onslaught of apocalyptic horsemen
Todd Gitlin
The view from Steve Bannon’s propaganda site will scare the bejeezus out of you, which is its point
Intelligence expert Malcolm Nance on Trump scandal: “As close to Benedict Arnold as we’re ever going to get”
Chauncey DeVega
Career counterterrorism officer says Putin pulled off a "brilliant" coup — but Trump is headed for impeachment
Deconstruction zone: Doubling down on dystopia, preventing the triumph of Trump’s will
John Feffer
We can rewrite our own dystopian reality. We can change that bleak future ourselves
Sean Spicer: Reporters should “trust” President Donald Trump “if he’s not joking, of course”
Sophia Tesfaye
The White House continues to tell Americans to take Trump seriously, not literally
Donald Trump Jr. insists that he has had “zero contact” with his father
Taylor Link
The younger Trump, partially in charge of the family business, has also said that he can't get out of politics
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