‘Stop Sanders’ Democrats Are Agonizing Over His Momentum  —  WASHINGTON — When Leah Daughtry, a former Democratic Party official, addressed a closed-door gathering of about 100 wealthy liberal donors in San Francisco last month, all it took was a review of the 2020 primary rules to throw a scare in them.

White House officials concerned about being exposed by Mueller report  —  Some of the dozen-plus officials interviewed by Mueller are concerned about president's “wrath” if they are seen as a source of damaging information in Thursday's report.  —  WASHINGTON — Some of the more than one dozen current …

Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show  —  Facebook's leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg oversaw plans to consolidate the social network's power …

The Daily 202: Tax returns show 2020 candidates gave to charity, but not a ton  —  THE BIG IDEA: Former congressman Beto O'Rourke (D-Tex.) released 10 years of tax returns last night.  He and his wife reported $1,166 of charitable giving from a total income of $370,412 in 2017, the most recent year for which they released a return.

Poll: Roy Moore leading Alabama GOP field  —  Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore leads the field of potential Republicans vying for the chance to challenge Sen. Doug Jones (D), a year and a half after Moore lost what was supposed to be an easy election in a deep-red state.

9 Takeaways From the Clearest Glimpse Into the 2020 Money Race So Far  —  Bernie Sanders is the money leader.  Elizabeth Warren is spending big.  Pete Buttigieg emerged out of nowhere.  And (almost) everyone is buying gobs of Facebook ads.  —  The Democratic challengers to President Trump raised tens …

Gina Haspel Relies on Spy Skills to Connect With Trump.  He Doesn't Always Listen.  —  WASHINGTON — Gina Haspel was trying to brief President Trump early in her tenure as the C.I.A. director, but he appeared distracted.  Houseflies buzzing around the Oval Office were drawing his attention, and ire.

ICE deports spouse of U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan  —  Immigration officials have deported the spouse of a U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan, leaving the couple's 12-year-old daughter, a U.S. citizen, in Phoenix without parents, according to the deported man's lawyer.

15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook  —  Scandals.  Backstabbing.  Resignations.  Record profits.  Time Bombs.  In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.  Here's how that turned out.  —  THE STREETS OF Davos, Switzerland, were iced over on the night of January 25 …

Pete Buttigieg Was An Effective Mayor — With A Gaping Blind Spot  —  South Bend residents describe a technocratic leader who struggled to see beyond spreadsheets.  —  Like many residents of South Bend, Indiana, Laura Jensen has known Pete Buttigieg for years.

Mick Mulvaney's Master Class in Destroying a Bureaucracy From Within  —  The C.F.P.B. was created to protect Americans from predatory lenders after the financial crisis.  President Trump's new chief of staff took it apart on his way to White House.  —  One rainy afternoon early in February 2018 …

White House Talking to Candidates to Replace Cain, Moore for Fed  — Top economic adviser says talking to ‘a number’ of candidates  — Republican support for Cain, Moore has dwindled in recent days  —  The White House is interviewing candidates to potentially replace Herman Cain …

Pelosi: Democrats have ‘no taint’ of anti-Semitism in their party  —  Trump and Omar: Where the 9/11 controversy came from  —  (CNN)House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the President is “bankrupt of any ideas” whenever he accuses the Democratic Party of pushing an anti-Semitic agenda and flatly denied …

How the Kavanaugh Hearings Changed American Men and Women  —  Around five or six hundred traumatic public events ago — which is to say last fall — Republicans declared Democrats would live to regret that they pushed for women accusing now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault or misconduct to be heard.

Behind the Obama administration's shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign  —  In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr used the word “spying” to refer to the Obama administration, um, spying on the Trump campaign.  Of course, fainting spells ensued, with the media-Democrat complex in meltdown.

Here's How the House Can Finally Nail Trump  —  ‘The scope of the power of inquiry,’ the Supreme Court wrote, ‘is as penetrating and far-reaching as the potential power to enact and appropriate under the Constitution.’  —  President Trump may complain on Twitter or Fox News …

White Man Gets 10 Years in Prison for Trying to Hire Hit Man to Lynch Black Neighbor  —  A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.

Trump's Trade War With China Doesn't Look Like a Win  —  Prevailing against a fast-growing country run by autocrats isn't so easy.  —  In March 2018, President Donald Trump uttered his famous declaration that “trade wars are good and easy to win.”  A little more than a year later …

‘Fear Is a Very Powerful Force’: How the White House Whistleblower Exposed a National Security Scandal  —  When Donald Trump and his advisers arrived at the White House for their first real day of work on January 21, 2017, they inherited over 1,800 civil service employees who have more-or-less permanent jobs …

This Time Is Different  —  Why U.S. Foreign Policy Will Never Recover  —  It is a truth universally acknowledged that a foreign policy community in possession of great power must be in want of peace of mind.  Climate change, the Middle East, terrorism, trade, nonproliferation …

Male scientists are often cast as lone geniuses.  Here's what happened when a woman was.  —  The sexist backlash against the woman involved with the black hole image, explained.  —  Just after the Event Horizon Telescope project announced last week that its astronomers had managed to capture …

Michele Bachmann Exalts ‘Biblical’ Trump: We Will Never See A ‘More Godly’ POTUS  —  President Trump's existence on a moral spectrum that includes hush payments to porn stars alongside proclamations of born-again Christian values has left some of his evangelical supporters nursing a case of cognitive dissonance.

What's New About Conspiracy Theories?  —  Outsiders have always had a weakness for paranoid fantasies.  Now our leaders are conspiracists, too.  —  On the morning of December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, a warehouse worker and a father of two from Salisbury, North Carolina …