Michael Scherer

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Bigots Get a Boost from the Bully Pulpit After Charlottesville

Nearly alone among the nation’s elected leaders, President Trump saw a nobility of purpose in the fiery procession that began a weekend of street fights in Charlottesville, Va. White nationalists hoisted tiki torches that recalled...

By Michael Scherer and Alex Altman

President Trump Struggles to Play Role of National Healer After Charlottesville

President Trump came before the country Saturday to declare that he was ready to start the national healing after a series of white nationalist gatherings in Virginia, featuring torches and Nazi salutes, devolved into violence...

By Michael Scherer

The Virginia Shooting and America's Creeping National Disease

James Hodgkinson took aim at more than just GOP Congressman at baseball practice

By Michael Scherer

Trump's Loyalty Test

How the President's actions are straining government institutions and the people who work for them

By Michael Scherer and Alex Altman

President Trump Attacks 'Lunatic,' 'No-Talent,' 'Dumbest Person' in TV

"He's sitting there like a chained lunatic"

By Zeke J Miller and Michael Scherer

How Senator Ben Sasse Became the Anti-Trump

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse is not yet running for President, and his new book, The Vanishing American Adult, is not about politics, policy or his own life story, all of which someone like him would...

By Michael Scherer

Ben Sasse Explains Why His New Book Is Really, Truly Not About Running for President

But is he right?

By Michael Scherer

As the White House Turns: A Guide to the Shifting Power Centers Among Trump's Top Advisers

Donald Trump has called his White House a “fine-tuned machine,” an image that is at odds with the steady stream of sparks, springs and sprockets that have flown out of the West Wing since he...

By Michael Scherer and Zeke J Miller

The Trump Administration Warned Russia About the U.S. Missile Attack on Syria

But President Donald Trump did not speak with Russia's Vladimir Putin

By Michael Scherer

The Incredible Shrinking Power of the President's Threats

On the 11th Sunday of his presidency, amid national approval polls as low as 35%, Donald Trump found himself on the back nine of his Virginia golf course, playing a foursome with his old rival...

By Michael Scherer

Can President Trump Handle the Truth?

A President who peddles falsehoods and dabbles in conspiracy confronts the challenge of governing in reality

By Michael Scherer

Russia and the Trump Campaign

On March 20, FBI Director James Comey confirmed that as part of the federal probe into Moscow’s operation against the 2016 U.S. election, FBI agents are “investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated...

By Michael Scherer

The 2 Faces of Trump: President and Provocateur

After six weeks, no clear vision for the kind of leader Trump wants to be

By Michael Scherer and Zeke J Miller

White House Bars News Outlets from Daily Briefing

White House Correspondents' Association files protest

By Michael Scherer

Liberals Plot Revenge as Trump Moves Into the White House

The fight of David Brock’s life ended on a billionaire’s rooftop overlooking Manhattan’s Upper East Side. It was election night around 9:30 p.m., and he was alone after hopping across the city for return-watching parties...

By Michael Scherer

Person of the Year 2016: Donald Trump

[time-ad size="large"] BY MICHAEL SCHERER PHOTOGRAPHS BY NADAV KANDER FOR TIME Even for Donald Trump, the distance is still fun to think about, up here in his penthouse 600 ft. in the sky, where it's...

By Michael Scherer

What You Missed While Not Watching the Second Debate

0 minutes. It’s not funny anymore. There is no bottom. You just keep falling. The fear is not about hitting the ground. It’s not even the accelerating speed. The fear is that it never ends....

By Michael Scherer

The Truth Is Out There in 2016. Way Out There.

In 2016, political debate has become unhinged from reality. And it won’t stop on Election Day

By Charlotte Alter and Michael Scherer

What You Missed While Not Watching the Debate

0 minutes. This is what you get, America. No one is exactly sure why. But it happened: Nine percent of the U.S. population cast ballots for the two major-party nominees. Now only a third of...

By Michael Scherer

In the 2016 Election, Distrust Cuts Both Ways

When she reappeared on a New York City sidewalk, Hillary Clinton was all smiles for the network cameras staked out around her daughter’s home. She wanted to replace the images from a cell-phone video that...

By Michael Scherer
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