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  1. the law
    Paul Manafort’s First Trial Is a Sideshow. The Next One Won’t Be.The real action is already happening across the Potomac, where another Manafort trial is bound to be much more revealing.
    By Cristian Farias
  2. russia investigation
    Trump Acknowledges Son Sought Clinton Dirt From RussiansThe president says that meeting Russian officials to obtain damaging information about a political opponent is “done all the time.”
    By Chas Danner
  3. politics
    Trump Believes Giuliani’s Claim That Mueller Has Nothing on Him: ReportRudy Giuliani’s PR blitz in defense of President Trump is apparently working — on President Trump.
    By Chas Danner
  4. the national interest
    Why Are So Many Leftists Skeptical of the Russia Investigation?What to think about Trump’s collusion with Russia has somehow caused a divide among progressives.
    By Jonathan Chait
  5. hot shot
    Can You Spot All the Broken Souls in This Pic?Robert Mueller and Donald Trump Jr. were at the same airport gate on Friday.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  6. the national interest
    Why Does Trump Keep Lying About His Dealings With Russia?President Trump has denied having known about the June 2016 meeting with a Russian. Michael Cohen can testify that he did know.
    By Jonathan Chait
  7. Like Everyone Else, Mueller Is Obsessing Over Trump’s TweetsUnlike the rest of us, the special counsel is using Trump’s favorite mode of communication to build an obstruction of justice case.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  8. the national interest
    After Trump-Putin Summit, Freaked-out Republicans Are Supporting Mueller ProbeThe party’s appetite to help Trump fire Mueller has suddenly dissipated.
    By Jonathan Chait
  9. Wealthy Trump Pals Paid Rick Gates for Access to His AdministrationElliott Broidy and Tom Barrack paid Gates, Paul Manafort’s number two, nearly $300,000 in 2017.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  10. Manafort’s Trial Delayed to July 31 So His Lawyers Can Better PrepareA federal judge will give Paul Manafort’s lawyers a six-day extension so they can review around 120,000 pages of documents ahead of his trial.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  11. manhattan madam
    Mueller Is Reportedly Trying to Talk to the ‘Manhattan Madam’She was involved in former New York governor Eliot Spitzer’s 2008 prostitution scandal.
    By Lisa Ryan
  12. Mueller Requests Immunity for 5 Witnesses Set to Testify Against ManafortA judge also denied Paul Manafort’s request to move his tax and bank-fraud trial, which is set to start next week, out of the D.C. area.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. Timing of Mueller’s Russia Indictments Wasn’t Trolling – Trump Approved ItTrump’s allies, and Russia, said Mueller was just trying to derail the Putin summit. But the White House wanted the release to come before Helsinki.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. Trump on Hannity: We Know There’s No Russia Collusion, Because Putin Said SoTrump suggested we should take Putin’s word on the Mueller probe, and lamented that Manafort is being unfairly targeted, just like gangster Al Capone.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. Mueller’s New Indictment Points to Collusion With RussiaThe Department of Justice charges only Russians, but signs of their Republican partners are plain.
    By Jonathan Chait
  16. Manafort Is a ‘VIP’ in Jail With His Own Phone, Laptop, and ShowerTrump’s former campaign chairman has asked that his trial be delayed. Robert Mueller is using his own words to argue that it shouldn’t be.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  17. Giuliani: Trump Won’t Sit Down for Mueller Interview Without a FightLawyers for the president want to make things difficult for the special counsel as they wage a war of public opinion.
    By Benjamin Hart
  18. Manafort Kept in Solitary 23 Hours a Day to ‘Guarantee His Safety,’ Lawyer SaysTrump’s former campaign manager is seeking pretrial release, despite the witness-tampering charges that landed him in jail.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  19. the national interest
    Why Hasn’t Trump Fired Scott Pruitt? Because Pruitt Can Fire Robert Mueller.The EPA administrator pitches President Trump on a sinister plan to quash the Russia investigation.
    By Jonathan Chait
  20. politics
    Alec Baldwin Wants You to Get Personally Involved in Robert Mueller Russia ProbeAs if you didn’t have all this other stuff going on.
    By Halle Kiefer
  21. Trump’s Latest and Most Insane New Theory For Shutting Down Mueller ProbeTrump wants you to read this case by right-wing legal cranks for why Mueller should stop investigating him even if he turns up lots of crimes.
    By Jonathan Chait
  22. Peter Strzok, FBI Agent in Texting Scandal, Will Testify Before CongressHis attorney said he’s willing to testify without immunity, and “intends to answer any question put to him.”
    By Margaret Hartmann
  23. Giuliani: Trump Might Need to ‘Clean Up’ Mueller Probe With PardonsHours after Paul Manafort went to jail — and reports that Michael Cohen might flip went public — Trump’s lawyer suggests loyalty will be rewarded.
    By Eric Levitz
  24. Judge Revokes Paul Manafort’s Bail, Sends Him to Jail to Await TrialDonald Trump’s former campaign chairman is about to get locked up.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  25. the national interest
    Mitch McConnell Turns Against Robert MuellerOminous music plays.
    By Jonathan Chait
  26. Republicans Want to Shut Mueller Down Over IG Report That Isn’t Even About HimFBI bias didn’t affect the Clinton probe … so according to Giuliani and other Trump allies, Mueller must be “suspended” immediately.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  27. DOJ Report Confirms That the President Is a Dishonest Conspiracy TheoristThe Justice Department’s inspector general finds “no evidence” that the FBI was biased in its handling of the Clinton email investigation.
    By Eric Levitz
  28. the national interest
    How Trump Could Get Scott Pruitt to Fire Robert MuellerDeep in a New York Times story on palace intrigue lies a key revelation of a potential republic-shaking plot.
    By Jonathan Chait
  29. Sam Nunberg on What Happens When Mueller Wants to Dig Through Your PhoneThe former Trump campaign aide says the special counsel asked him about his encrypted communications, and even made him hand over old BlackBerrys.
    By Olivia Nuzzi
  30. Risk of Being Mueller’s Boss Scares Off Top Justice Department CandidatesThe number-three position at the Justice Department will remain vacant for now, as no one wants to wind up overseeing the Russia probe.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  31. the national interest
    Trump’s Latest FBI Conspiracy Theory Is His Craziest YetThe president is relying on right-wing bloggers that even the crazy right thinks are crazy.
    By Jonathan Chait
  32. If Mueller Is Ever Going to Flip Manafort, Now Seems Like the TimeFederal prosecutors accused Manafort of witness tampering, which could land him in jail as he awaits trial, just as Trump cast doubt on a pardon.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. Trump Says He Has the Right to Pardon HimselfIt’s a possibility that only an innocent man would be contemplating.
    By Benjamin Hart
  34. the national interest
    The Constitutional Crisis Is Already UnderwayWe are about to find out whether we are a nation of laws, or a nation where justice is whatever Trump says it is.
    By Jonathan Chait
  35. Trump’s Lawyers: Obstruction of Justice Is Legal If You’re PresidentAccording to a leaked letter, the president’s legal team is gearing up for a constitutional fight over Trump’s presidential powers.
    By Chas Danner
  36. Trump Wanted Rosenstein to Give More Obstruction-y Reason for Comey FiringFormer FBI deputy director Andy McCabe reportedly worried that Rosenstein gave Trump “cover” by opting not to blame the Russia probe.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  37. the national interest
    ‘I Will Never Roll on Donald Trump,’ Promises Definitely Innocent Roger StoneAnother line you tend not to hear from people who haven’t been involved in criminal activity.
    By Jonathan Chait
  38. the national interest
    The Gangster Morality of Anti-Anti-TrumpismHow conservatives routinely defend the indefensible.
    By Jonathan Chait
  39. Paul Manafort Is Having Trouble Paying His Legal Bills, Now You Can HelpFriends of the former Trump campaign manager are crowdfunding to defray costs associated with the Mueller probe.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  40. the national interest
    President Trump Is Taking Control of the Mueller Probe in SlicesHow “salami tactics” are relentlessly whittling down the independence of the Justice Department and the rule of law.
    By Jonathan Chait
  41. Photos: Remembering Trump’s Russia Probe MartyrsA fresh look at the over-idealistic Trump staffers whose “young and beautiful lives” have been shattered by that brute, Robert Mueller.
    By Benjamin Hart and Chas Danner
  42. russia investigation
    Giuliani Admits ‘Spygate’ Is PR in Anticipation of ImpeachmentTrump’s newest lawyer now says that the Mueller investigation is illegitimate, while also calling the legitimacy of such criticism into question.
    By Chas Danner
  43. the national interest
    Rudy: Trump Might Commit Perjury Because ‘Truth Is Relative’Trump’s legal defense turns postmodern.
    By Jonathan Chait
  44. Trump’s FBI Spy Theory Is Completely InsaneThe president believes a pro-Obama cabal of spies is planting evidence against him.
    By Jonathan Chait
  45. the national interest
    Paul Ryan: ‘Oversight of the Executive Branch’ Means Kneecapping MuellerAn insanely dishonest rationale for the House Speaker to help Trump subvert the law.
    By Jonathan Chait
  46. the national interest
    Why the Times Report on the New Trump Tower Meeting Is Freaking Trump OutThe president screams that the shadowy nexus of Erik Prince, George Nader, and the Gulf States has nothing to do with Russia. Hmm.
    By Jonathan Chait
  47. Trump Demands Justice Department Investigate Role of Informant on CampaignIs this just bluster, or the beginnings of the constitutional crisis we’ve all been waiting for?
    By Benjamin Hart
  48. explainers
    Beyond Russia: Understanding the New Trump Campaign Collusion StoryEverything we know about the newly revealed Trump Tower meeting, the alleged collusion offer from a Gulf State emissary, and what it all might mean.
    By Chas Danner
  49. the national interest
    Trump’s New Russia Scandal Theory: The FBI Set Him Up. There’s One Small Flaw.James Comey’s apparent plot was to launch an “October surprise” revealing Trump was being investigated on Russia.
    By Jonathan Chait
  50. Bannon Is Still Advising Trump Allies on Their War With MuellerTrump seemed to reject the half-baked plan Bannon was pushing a month ago, and he may not know that his confidants are talking with his ex-strategist.
    By Margaret Hartmann
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