Why Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Confessed to It All  —  Of all of President Trump's former associates who have come under scrutiny in the special counsel's Russia investigation, his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, has undertaken perhaps the most surprising and risky legal strategy.

Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency  —  “Today is the first day I actually thought Donald Trump might not finish his term in office,” said the legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin on CNN last Thursday.  —  “This is the beginning of the end for Trump,” declared Neal Katyal, a former acting solicitor general, on MSNBC.

Trump is compromised.  What else is he hiding and who else knows about it?  —  Now we know Trump, like Flynn, was compromised by the Russians.  Was the Moscow deal their only financial leverage over the president, or is there more?  —  CONNECT  —  For more than a century …

Mike Flynn Report Expected to Shed Light on Mueller Probe  —  Filing Tuesday could say how the former Trump aide has helped the Russia investigation  —  WASHINGTON—A new filing Tuesday is expected to detail how former Trump adviser Mike Flynn has been helping federal investigators since pleading guilty …

GOP legislatures seek to cement Republican power  —  Republican legislators in several states are moving to cement their authority at the expense of Democrats who won November's midterm elections — before those Democrats are sworn into office.  —  In Wisconsin, Michigan and North Carolina …

Wisconsin Republicans are trying to subvert the will of the voters.  They're part of a larger trend.  —  Donald P. Moynihan is the McCourt chair at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University.  He served as a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 2005 to 2018.