Ron Elving

The Fire and Fury author offers surprising stories about the president. But there may never have been a more polarizing president, nor an author less likely to be read as a neutral recorder of facts.

Legislation to provide disaster relief is hung up in the House. State legislatures are restricting abortion rights. And the Supreme Court blocked new congressional maps for Michigan and Ohio.

President Trump is so determined to pressure his antagonists to relent that he suddenly seems ready to renounce the governing obligations of his own office.

Another week of standoffs between the executive and legislative branches.

Attorney General William Barr took on a Senate committee to defend his summary of the Mueller report, even though Robert Mueller said Barr didn't get it right. Then, Barr skipped a House hearing.

President Trump is hosting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Saturday but also seems to have an eye on the Democratic presidential candidates.

Few authors get to pick who will provide the exclusive first review of their work, and Mueller didn't either. That choice was made by the principal character in the story, the president himself.

Mueller's report didn't find evidence to support allegations the Trump campaign "conspired or coordinated" with Russia to win the 2016 election. But it does lay bare a Trump White House in disarray.

And unlike the attorney general's predecessors who were caught between warring branches of government, William Barr seems intent on being at the center of the conflict.

We have a recap of the week in politics as President Trump talked immigration this week.

We go through the week in politics, including President Trump's visit Friday to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Is the 76-year-old former vice president too much a man of the last century? His basic vulnerability is being cast as a candidate of the past in a party selling itself as the party of the future.

With the Mueller investigation behind him, President Trump has had a renewed focus on policy, from health care to Venezuela.

Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has delivered his report to the attorney general, we look at how politicians and the president are reacting.

From Presidents Ulysses Grant to Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton and Trump, a number of independent investigators have looked into allegations too hot for normal processes.

A new documentary provides an unsparing look at former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, including his casual talk of apocalypse and trademark look of dissolution.

It's time for Movies You Missed, our series introducing movie fans to classics they haven't yet seen. This week's feature is 1957's A Face In The Crowd, about a demagogue brought low.

We have a recap of the week in politics, including Michael Cohen's testimony before Congress and a failed nuclear summit with North Korea.

NPR's Ron Elving explains the history of the pardon, where it comes from and what the Constitution allows.

We recap the week's biggest political news: a possible end of the Mueller investigation, the president's emergency declaration and Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential bid.