Michael Scherer

Recent Articles

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 August 17, 2017

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 August 12, 2017

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 June 14, 2017

Trump's Loyalty Test

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

By Michael Scherer May 18, 2017

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

"He's sitting there like a chained lunatic"

By Zeke J Miller May 11, 2017

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 May 11, 2017

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

But is he right?

By Michael Scherer May 5, 2017

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 April 13, 2017

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 April 6, 2017

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 April 6, 2017
More from TIME
More From TIME