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Donald Trump made gestures toward seeking a third term—before walking it back. What’s he up to? The legal writer Ruth Marcus joins Michael Luo to figure it out. Plus:

Children are losing their civil-rights protections

When a crackdown on the I.R.A. backfired

Guillermo del Toro was born to make “Frankenstein”

Photograph by Stephen Maturen

Michael Luo

Executive editor

Last Thursday, during an interview with The Economist , Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist, asserted, “Trump is going to be President in ’28,” and alluded to “a plan” that would make this possible. On Monday, when

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