For months, reporters have dug up, or been fed, tidbits about what Mueller’s team is looking at and rushed into print with claims that he’s … going to nab President Trump for obstruction of justice, or show the Russians used the NRA to elect Trump, or expose Russian funding of Trump projects long ago — whatever.

And all of it misses the elephant in the room: Not one leak, ever, has suggested that Mueller has found an iota of evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians — which, recall, is what the investigation is supposed to be about.

Mueller may be prepared to present other possible crimes alongside a potential obstruction charge for Trump. Because of the unlimited breadth his investigation has been given, such charges might be possible even though they do not directly relate to any collusion Trump’s campaign may have had with Russian actors.

Whatever its outcome, the coming weeks will prove vital for the future of the sprawling Mueller investigation.

“There’s been no collusion whatsoever,” Trump told reporters in an impromptu press conference on Wednesday. “There’s no obstruction whatsoever. And I’m looking forward to it.”

Trump also mocked critics who have accused him of obstructing the Russia probe by attacking the investigations and referring to them as a “witch hunt.”

“You fight back, oh, it’s obstruction,” Trump mockingly told reporters.

Fix the culture that allowed the abuse to flourish. It means telling coaches that physical and emotional abuse of any gymnast is not O.K. It means letting gymnasts eat separately from coaches at training camps, so that they’re not susceptible to a master manipulator like Dr. Nassar, who would sneak them treats. It means not shunning gymnasts who do poorly at meets — another form of abuse — even at a big meet like the World Championships or Olympics.

All of this might mean fewer medals and less lucrative sponsorship deals. So be it.

In these highly charged, complex and contentious situations, the question often becomes: What did the president know, and when did she know it? But another question is worth asking, too: When is not knowing the president’s fault?

How directly should a president be held accountable for the acts committed by those who report to her — even if she did not know about those acts?

Last week, four days into a marathon court hearing that has exposed a hidden history of sexual abuse in American gymnastics, the two-time Olympian Aly Raisman joined the growing ranks of female athletes who have testified against the national team’s disgraced former physician, Larry Nassar…

It is no surprise that Raisman, who was twice voted the captain of her country’s Olympic team, has emerged as the spearhead of this communal movement…

Though Raisman is a legendary independent talent… her greatest contribution to American gymnastics may be a steadfast style of leadership that makes her an apt icon for the current reckoning.

In his latest attack on the Iran nuclear deal, Trump delivered an ultimatum to his European allies: either fix the accord or he would walk away from it in less than four months. This public cornering of European allies, together with Washington’s increasingly hostile trajectory on Iran, should serve as a wake-up call for Europe…

Europeans spent much of last year trying to convince Trump to do no harm to the nuclear deal. But Trump’s policy toward Iran is now clearly at odds with European interests. Even if Trump can be persuaded to renew the U.S. sanctions waivers next due in May, he is very likely to continue the charade of unpredictability. This uncertainty has chilled the business appetite of European companies doing business with Iran.

European governments may have found a way to save — or at least sustain — the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran that President Donald Trump has threatened to scuttle.

With Trump vowing to back out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action by May if progress isn’t made in toughening some of its terms, officials from France, Germany and the U.K. — working with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson — are focusing on how to restrain Iran’s development of ballistic missiles. That could help buy time for the nuclear accord, which international inspectors say Iran continues to abide by.

Iran — a country whose bad behavior was ignored by the Obama administration, as not to ruin the prospects for “historic agreement” — was also put on notice. Do you worry about where it all leads? I worry, too. But I still draw some satisfaction from the fact that the Iranians must worry, too, and the Palestinians must worry, and so must the UNRWA hacks and the blame-Israel hacks.

Here is one way to explain why Israel appreciates the Trump administration: It reshuffled the cards of worry.

Ahead of Trump’s arrival, world leaders have essentially used their speeches to take turns shading the 45th president’s “America First” approach. On Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that, as a country that wants to help “solve the problems of the world,” Germany doesn’t think “shutting ourselves off and isolating ourselves will . . . lead [to] a good future.”

…Merkel, who was last seen attempting to explain to Trump how trade agreements work—a tutorial that, despite her reported patience, failed miserably—noted that it was a “multilateral response” that helped to curtail the global financial crisis.

President Donald Trump has a familiar message for the global elites populating the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: You were wrong.

A year ago, some Davos participants predicted Trump’s protectionist rhetoric would lead to sluggish economic growth and lackluster stock market gains. It didn’t. And the president isn’t about to let that go unnoticed.

He’ll also seek to persuade the Davos audience in a major speech on Friday that his populist, “America First” policies can co-exist with globalism.

Some commentators are billing the trip as a great showdown between the Make America Great Again populist firebrand and the globalist plutocrats who make up much of the Davos crowd.  his framing is dramatic but a bit misleading.

Far from being a vehement opponent of the globalization that Davos symbolizes, Trump is one of its beneficiaries and practitioners. As evidenced by the presence of a Trump Tower in Manila and a Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, he is a global brand.

Millennials (aged 23-37) are not as financially irresponsible as they often have been portrayed. Instead of spending money frivolously, many are socking it away, even while paying down hefty student loan debts.

The survey found that about one in 6 (16 percent) has saved up $100,000 or more, double the amount of young people who managed that feat in 2015. Nearly half (47%) have put away $15,000, up from 33% in 2015.

Pretty good for a generation that’s supposedly blowing all their money on avocado toast.

Millennials place less emphasis on investing not because they don’t have funds—but because they don’t want to…

Millennials’ do-it-yourself, self-sufficient attitude might come at cost. While socking away a substantial chunk of your paycheck is more financially prudent than spending it all, interest rates on savings accounts have been near zero since the global financial crisis.

The irony is that many Boomers and Gen Xers think of millennials as irresponsible. But millennials’ financial habits suggest they may be the most financially conservative group of all.

The American generation behind millennials has started to move into the workplace. And while some have proposed names for this group born in 1995 and after — Generation Z, Post-Millennials, The Homeland Generation, iGeneration — all of these names are bad. The first two don’t even strive for originality! Come on…

If you’re 22 or younger, please do us a favor and tell us what to call you and why. Or what NOT to call you and why. We’ll collect your responses and publish a selection of them in a follow-up article.

In Germany, the Kulturkampf referred to battles between civil and religious authorities over control of what the state would look like. In Israel, the same term could be applied to battles between the ruling class and the creative community over the right of free expression and the character of the country…

The Gefen story carries a potent mix of politics, music and a power battle, the latest iteration of a fight that pops up every now and again when Liberman and others try to keep views they find abhorrent out of whatever parts of the mainstream they can control.

Exactly what kind of symbol Ahed has become is a matter of much debate—and something of a Rorschach test for how people view the larger politics of the region. For Israelis, she is seen as living proof of the army’s restraint. For Palestinians, she appears to have emerged as a national hero representing of a new generation of Palestinian resistance.

Some lessons are never learned. Before the last election, several left wingers, by insisting on hurling insults at rightwing voters, probably assisted Netanyahu and Likud win. Singer Gidi Gov did a similar favor to Avigdor Lieberman’s party. The party was in trouble, and Lieberman was searching for ways to boost his popularity – mostly by picking a fight with Haredi parties. But he no longer has such trouble. Now his party has a cause and a battle cry: “they” mock us for having Russian accents – “we” retaliate by getting even more political power. Gov just added seats to the party he detests.

Trump is staking his presidency, as he did his election, on nothing less than destroying the credibility of the news media; and the media are determined to do the same to him. This is not just a feud or a fight or a battle. It is scorched-earth warfare in which only one side can achieve victory. To a stunning degree, the press is falling into the president’s trap. The country’s top news organizations have targeted Trump with an unprecedented barrage of negative stories, with some no longer making much attempt to hide their contempt. Some stories are legitimate, some are not…

In his long and spotty career as a media critic, Howie Kurtz has been a monument to upward mobility, much like nausea is. In 2013, he ended up at the Fox News Channel, a career trajectory approximately as unpredictable as the daily passage of the sun. And now, in the era of President* Trump, he has decided to become a “rebel” against what he sees as a mutual suicide pact between the president* and The Media… If I want to study a tool, I’ll go to trade school.

So finally, here is the pope’s solution. “We can recognize the truth of statements from their fruits,” he wrote, “whether they provoke quarrels, foment division, encourage resignation; or, on the other hand, they promote informed and mature reflection leading to constructive dialogue and fruitful results.”

Fake news is as fake news does, in other words. It “leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred,” Francis wrote.

So if you’re feeling those things while browsing Facebook, or find yourself in a flame war, be especially wary of what you just read. Ask yourself if there might be another side.

Woolf imagines a brighter future for women in the coming century, and it’s from the vantage point of that imagined future — amidst a storm of accusations that make it all too clear that discrimination against women is alive and well in nearly every workplace — that A Room of One’s Own starts to get very, very depressing.

Woolf is writing in 1929, and imagining how things will look for women 100 years into her future, in 2028. By then, she reasons, all barriers to women’s entry into the various trades will surely have fallen.

“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”

“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”

“Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.”

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

Employing the stream of conscious approach, Woolf described in a 1921 diary entry how memories of family holidays and the surrounding landscape, especially the Godrevy Lighthouse, impacted her fiction in later years.

“Why am I so incredibly and incurably romantic about Cornwall? One’s past, I suppose; I see children running in the garden … The sound of the sea at night … almost forty years of life, all built on that, permeated by that: so much I could never explain.”

Her literary reputation declined after World War II, but her works attracted renewed focus thanks to the 1970s feminist criticism movement.