Cotton Tales

Published: Jan. 26, 2018, 12:34 p.m.

Tom Cotton, the Republican senator from Arkansas, is becoming President Trump\u2019s right arm in the Senate. Or maybe it\u2019s the other way around, and Cotton, a right-wing ideologue, is helping to steer the president. Either way, Trump\u2019s behavior in the immigration debate\u2014turning against a legislative compromise after Cotton was summoned to a White House meeting to oppose it\u2014illustrates the young senator\u2019s influence.