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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 and Alex Altman
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 and Alex Altman
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 and Michael Scherer
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 and Zeke J Miller
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
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
March 23, 2017
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
March 23, 2017
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
March 5, 2017
White House Bars News Outlets from Daily Briefing
White House Correspondents' Association files protest
By Michael Scherer
February 24, 2017
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
January 20, 2017
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
October 10, 2016
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
October 6, 2016
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
September 27, 2016
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
September 15, 2016
Melania and Michelle's 'Common Words'
Clear echoes in two speeches eight years apart
By Michael Scherer
July 19, 2016
FBI Says Hillary Clinton Claim on Reading Emails Was False
Her staff gave reporters information the FBI found to be untrue
By Michael Scherer
July 5, 2016
Why Did They Die?
A massacre in Orlando elicits grief, anger and a heightened sense of our stark political divides
By Michael Scherer
June 16, 2016
Virginia Gov. Met Chinese Donor at Clinton's Home
A donation to the Clinton Foundation followed weeks later
By Michael Scherer
May 25, 2016
Battle of the Bathroom
Why the fight for transgender rights has moved into the most intimate of public spaces
By Michael Scherer
May 19, 2016
Can America Learn to Love Ted Cruz?
He has a plan to take the GOP nomination from Donald Trump. But first he must heal old wounds
By Michael Scherer
April 7, 2016
Big Money's Tiny Impact on the Presidential Campaign
This was supposed to be a great year to buy an election. Thanks to recent court rulings, after all, billionaires are allowed to spend freely to elect their chosen candidate. But so far, money has...
By Michael Scherer
March 17, 2016
The GOP's Last, Best Chance to Trump Trump
Who can take him down?
By Michael Scherer / Las Vegas and Zeke J Miller / Las Vegas
February 25, 2016
The Fight to Replace Antonin Scalia Will Be Ugly
Neither side benefits from compromise
By Michael Scherer
February 14, 2016
Sanders Snarks as Democratic Debate Gets Heated
There was nothing surprising about Hillary Clinton’s decision, about 20 minutes into the sixth Democratic debate, to use the phrase “once I am in the White House.” Candidates do that all the time in presidential...
By Michael Scherer / Milwaukee, Wisc.
February 12, 2016
Bobby Jindal Endorses Marco Rubio For President
Former Louisiana governor latest key Republican to back the surging Florida senator
By Michael Scherer / Derry, N.H.
February 5, 2016
Jeb Bush Attacks Trump Hard in Two-Minute Ad
Donald Trump long ago turned Jeb Bush into a "low-energy" punchline. But Bush isn't done punching back. In a new two-minute ad, which will run this week in New Hampshire, he contrasts the controversial antics...
By Michael Scherer
February 2, 2016
Everything Changes in Debate Without Trump
For two whole hours Thursday night, the Republican Party awoke from its 2016 fever dream. There was no Donald Trump on the Fox News stage in Des Moines, not in person or even in spirit....
By Michael Scherer
January 29, 2016
Bloomberg Mulling Independent Presidential Run
He is "significantly less likely" to run if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee
By Michael Scherer
January 23, 2016
What You Missed While Not Watching the Debate
0 Minutes. NBC bills tonight as “The Last Debate Before the First Vote.” They should call it the “First Democratic Debate Not Scheduled for a Saturday Since October.” It is a Sunday, which would be...
By Michael Scherer
January 18, 2016
What You Missed While Not Watching the GOP Debate
0 minutes. The first Republican debate of 2016 begins with a promise. “Every day, the end of the road gets closer,” says the disembodied voice of the Fox Business Network, as the screen flashes a...
By Michael Scherer
January 15, 2016
The Key to Getting Out the Vote in 2016
Elections are decided by the voters who show up
By Michael Scherer
December 21, 2015
What You Missed While Not Watching the GOP Debate
0 minutes. CNN told you to start watching this debate 10 minutes ago. Sucker. “We’re just moments away from the main event,” says Wolf Blitzer at 40 minutes past the hour, because the rules don’t...
By Michael Scherer
December 16, 2015
Exclusive: Donald Trump Talks Immigration, Terrorism and Campaign's Future
'If I don’t win, for me, it will have been a total waste of time.'
By Michael Scherer
December 9, 2015
Exclusive: Donald Trump Says He Might Have Supported Japanese Internment
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told TIME that he does not know whether he would have supported or opposed the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. “I would have had to be there...
By Michael Scherer
December 8, 2015
Trump: 'Times' Should Apologize Over Reporter Controversy
"I think they should give me an apology before they go out of business"
By Michael Scherer
November 28, 2015
President Obama Attacks Republicans for Paris Response
The Paris attacks have exposed divisions in the U.S.
By Zeke J Miller and Michael Scherer
November 17, 2015
Hillary Clinton's Second Debate Strategy: Pull Rank
A debate strategy pays off
By Michael Scherer
November 15, 2015
What You Missed While Not Watching the GOP Debate
0 minutes. Fox Business starts by setting the stakes high in Milwaukee. “In this very theater, Teddy Roosevelt campaigned with a bullet still lodged in his chest,” the voiceover intones. The 2016 candidates appear on...
By Michael Scherer
November 11, 2015
TIME's Milwaukee Republican Debate Beer Drinking Game
Put down the pipe, pick up a six pack
By Michael Scherer
November 10, 2015
Watch This Fake Candidate's Wife Open Up About Being a 'Prop'
"Hi, I'm a politician's wife delivering a focus-grouped message"
By Michael Scherer
November 10, 2015
Republican David Vitter Battles Prostitution Scandal in the Bayou
It gets nasty in the bayou
By Michael Scherer
November 10, 2015
How Rubio Is Rising Like a 'GOP Obama'
While Jeb the joyful tortoise falls behind
By Michael Scherer/Sioux City, Iowa
November 5, 2015
Marco Rubio Pushes Back on Leaked Jeb Bush Strategy Memo
He says Bush is doing "Hillary Clinton's job for her"
By Michael Scherer / Orange City, Iowa
October 30, 2015
What You Missed While Not Watching the Debate
0 minutes. Debates are hard at sea level. But in the Republican field this year, even the amateurs are pros. So the Republican National Committee has made this one harder. We're in Boulder, Colo., 150...
By Michael Scherer
October 29, 2015
TIME's Third Republican Debate Drinking (and Smoking) Game
Bring your pipe, this one's special
By Michael Scherer
October 28, 2015
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