We Have a Crisis of Democracy, Not Manners  —  Last year, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of his Virginia gym after another member confronted him and called him a Nazi.  This incident did not generate a national round of hand-wringing about the death of tolerance …

Mueller Poised to Zero In on Trump-Russia Collusion Allegations  — Special counsel to focus once he resolves obstruction inquiry  — The meetings with Russians stretched as far back as 2015  —  Special Counsel Robert Mueller is preparing to accelerate his probe …

Freedom Caucus to Trump: Lay off Sanford attacks  —  Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus on Monday urged President Trump  —  to drop his ongoing attacks against Rep. Mark Sanford  —  in the wake of Sanford's primary loss earlier this month.  —  Trump mocked the South Carolina …

Top Tech Companies Met With Intelligence Officials to Discuss Midterms  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Eight of the tech industry's most influential companies, in anticipation of a repeat of the Russian meddling that occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign, met with United States intelligence officials …

How Comey intervened to kill WikiLeaks' immunity deal  —  One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA's arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.  —  Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey

Fox News Suspends Ex-Trump Aide David Bossie for ‘Cotton-Picking’ Remark … David Bossie, the former deputy campaign manager for Donald Trump and current outside adviser to the president, has been suspended from his contributor gig at Fox News, The Daily Beast has learned.  —  The suspension lasts two weeks.

Iranians take to streets of Tehran in biggest protests since 2012  —  President Hassan Rouhani promises citizens the country will withstand currency drop and new US sanctions after Donald Trump's withdrawal from nuclear deal  —  POPULAR VIDEOS  —  Huge protests have erupted in Iran …

Trump foes move toward public shaming even of low-level officials  —  WASHINGTON  —  The public shaming of high-level, widely known Trump administration officials has expanded to the divulging of personal information about rank-and-file government employees who are carrying out President Donald Trump's least popular policies.

Want to Expand the Economy?  Tax the Rich!  —  This article appears in the Summer 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine.  Subscribe here.  —  If you think the Trump/Ryan tax cuts haven't been a huge success, you don't know trickle-down economics.  —  In Kansas City, Missouri …

Conservatives grumble about House GOP's handling of investigation into FBI  —  (CNN)Last October, two House Republican committee chairmen announced their plans to get to the bottom of the FBI's decision-making in 2016 — namely its handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

GOP increasingly opposes legal — not just illegal — immigration  —  Trump: GOP should stop wasting time on immigration  —  (CNN)The firestorm over the separation of children from their undocumented parents at the border has almost completely overshadowed another milestone …

“Be Careful What You Wish For”: How Mike Pompeo Trumpified the State Department  —  Insiders praise Pompeo as a vast improvement over Tillerson.  Behind the scenes, however, sources say Pompeo is remaking American diplomacy in Trump's image—and cracking down on dissent.

SEE IT: Trump supporter berates landscapers because they're ‘Mexican,’ calls them ‘rapists and animals’  —  A 27-year-old California man and his mother were called “rapists” and “animals” by a Trump supporter while trying to do landscaping work — and video of the exchange has been viewed millions of times online.

WATCH: CNN's Chris Cuomo call BS on Rick Santorum demanding ‘civility’ while refusing to require it of Trump  —  President Donald Trump's supporters are demanding civility after years of attacking Muslims, Latinos, women, LGBT people, Democrats, people who live in states that didn't vote for him …

A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer's Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card  —  Members of the right-wing family that helped put Trump in the White House can relive the campaign in an elaborate dinner-party game.  —  Robert Mercer, the New York hedge-fund magnate whose huge donations to pro-Trump groups …

Jennifer Senior Joins Opinion As Columnist  —  Jennifer Senior, who most recently was a book critic for The Times, will be joining Opinion as a columnist in September.  Read more in this note from James Bennet, Jim Dao and Katie Kingsbury.  —  “As you know, the role of a columnist …

America's dearth of civil society  —  SAVANNAH, GA — Outside the former cotton exchange, couples and families stood in front of the nearly 200 year-old building, snapping selfies with their faces married to the historic edifice towering in the background.  —  Inside, a handful of men dressed …

Trump Says Harley Move Abroad Would Be ‘Beginning of the End’  — Motorcycle maker said Monday it would move production overseas  — President says Harley is using new tariffs as an excuse  —  U.S. President Donald Trump accused Harley-Davidson Inc. of using new tariffs on trade …

‘ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis  —  ON FATHER'S DAY, Alex Gil was IMing with his colleague Manan Ahmed when they decided they had to do something about children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border.

The border won't be secure until Central America is  —  Joseph R. Biden Jr. was vice president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.  —  When President Trump signed an executive order ending the separation of children from their families at the border, it did not end the crisis in Central America.

Intern who cursed at Trump is identified, was suspended but not fired  —  The Congressional intern who hollered “Mr. President, f— you!” across the Capitol Rotunda last week during a presidential visit has been identified.  —  Sources tell Fox News the woman in question is 21-year-old Caitlin Marriott …

Trump's domestic gridlock  —  For President Trump's first term, the domestic agenda appears to be all but over.  Congress has little chance of doing anything notable before the election, beyond confirming judges.  —  Why it matters: Whichever party ekes out a House win in November, the margin will likely be narrow.

Democrats Are Turning Out to Vote in the Most Competitive Primary Races  —  In more than 20 of the most competitive House races of 2018, the share of Democrats voting in primaries notably increased, compared with 2014, the last midterm election cycle.  —  Democrats have appeared …

Goochland mom shoots man who flew around the world to see her teenage daughter … GOOCHLAND COUNTY, Va. — The FBI is now investigating after a woman shot a New Zealand man outside her Goochland County home Friday afternoon.  —  Troy Skinner, 25, flew to Virginia to meet the woman's teenage daughter …

Media fight access restrictions on child detention centers  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The children at the center of the national debate over President Donald Trump's immigration policy have been heard about but rarely seen.  —  News organizations say they are pushing back every …

Detention Camps on Military Bases ‘Smacks of Totalitarianism,’ Troops Say … Active-duty and retired U.S. military officers and enlisted personnel are expressing a sense of moral emergency over the Defense Department setting up detention camps for undocumented immigrants on military bases.

How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port  —  HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes.  —  Yes, though feasibility studies said the port wouldn't work.

It's time for the press to suspend normal relations with the Trump presidency  —  That is my recommendation.  —  It sometimes happens in diplomacy that one country has to say to another: “This is extreme.  We cannot accept this.  You have gone too far.”  And so it suspends diplomatic relations.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand '88 Takes on Trump  —  New York's junior senator talks about faith, fortitude, and the fight between good and evil.  —  When she was 7, Tina Rutnik told her younger sister and cousin she wanted to be a senator, not understanding what that really meant.

Doctor giving migrant kids psychotropic drugs lost certification years ago  —  The psychiatrist who has been prescribing powerful psychotropic medications to immigrant children at a federally funded residential treatment center in Texas has practiced without board certification to treat children …

Sometimes it's the crime you didn't commit that nails you  —  That's the theme, or at least the punchline, of Preston Sturges' classic movie “The Great McGinty,” among other works of art.  It may also end up being the kicker in the class action lawsuit against Harvard for discriminating …

Trump should forget second term  —  President Donald Trump was back on the campaign trail last week, doing what he most loves — tossing red meat to his base.  —  The president was full of himself and bravado, predicting to his Minnesota audience that he'll roar to re-election in 2020.