| | | |  On May 15, Facebook released its first-ever “Community Standards Enforcement Report.” Despite its numbingly bureaucratic title, the report contains startling details about the scope of the challenge facing the company as it tries to monitor violent, extremist, and false content on its platform; Facebook has tagged and taken down millions of instances of such content in just the past few months. |
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 There were a handful of primary elections last week in Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia, and while the results from Middle America were more or less predictable—“establishment” Republicans prevailed against some Trumpier-than-thou candidates—the headlines were revealing in their way: “Parties’ Stalwarts Hold Ground Against Rebels,” declared the front-page account in the New York Times; the Washington Post reported that “In Senate primaries, GOP avoids worst fears.” |
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 Is Donald Trump a masterful negotiator or an unqualified bumbler? The truth likely lies somewhere in between, but we want to avoid closed-mindedness here and accept the possibility that a mercurial president can secure a beneficial agreement by means of wrong-footing the other side’s negotiators. In any case, we’re going to find out. Deadlines on important diplomatic and trade agreements are approaching, and we should soon know if Trump’s famed skills in negotiating sweet deals in New York real estate can be translated to the White House. |
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 Can special counsel Robert Mueller require President Trump to testify before a grand jury? It would be unprecedented, and his effort to do so could lead to a major constitutional confrontation. |
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 Things look grimmer by the day for Paul Manafort. Thanks to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, President Trump’s former campaign manager has been charged with a wide array of crimes related to his years of work as a consultant for pro-Russian political factions in Ukraine. Prosecutors allege that Manafort was paid millions for this work and then conspired to hide those profits from U.S. authorities by laundering them through “scores of United States and foreign corporations, partnerships, and bank accounts." |
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