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Photo Rendering by Patrick White A Political Obituary for Donald Trump
The effects of his reign will linger. But democracy survived.
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Pete Souza / The White House Obama’s Memoir Is an Exercise in Ironic Realism
The former president’s detachment allowed him to see the emerging political landscape before others did—and kept the presidency from extinguishing his literary light.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Face the Bitter Truth
We are two countries, and neither of them is going to be conquered or disappear anytime soon.
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Moises Saman/Magnum Donald Trump’s Refugee Policy Is Bureaucratic Sadism
The president’s rollicking abuse of refugees and the answering jeers of his fans are a frank confession of moral rottenness.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Republicans Are Suddenly Afraid of Democracy
In a series of tweets, Senator Mike Lee laid the groundwork to contest the results or block an elected majority from governing.
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The Atlantic Trump Is Trying to Trick Americans Into Giving Up on Democracy
For the election to succeed, voters must think and act as if it will succeed.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Inside Story of the Mueller Probe’s Mistakes
In a new book, Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies, lays out the limits and letdowns of the years-long Russia investigation.
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Hudson Christie America’s Plastic Hour Is Upon Us
The country is at a low point. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that repairs our broken democracy.
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Getty / The Atlantic This Is How Biden Loses
Nothing will harm a campaign like the wishful thinking, fearful hesitation, or sheer complacency that fails to address what voters can plainly see.
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Win McNamee / Getty Failure Is a Contagion
The blunders of the president and his ideological attorney general are destroying any illusion of control.
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Sean Robinson Shouting Into the Institutional Void
Demonstrators are hammering on a hollowed-out structure, and it very well may collapse.
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Oliver Munday We Are Living in a Failed State
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
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Ernesto Artillo A Novelist’s Ambition to Define America
Robert Stone set out to capture the national condition in fiction, a goal that’s more relevant than ever.
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Photo rendering by Patrick White The President Is Winning His War on American Institutions
How Trump is destroying the civil service and bending the government to his will
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Enemies of Writing
A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade.
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Ashkan Shabani / Redux Killing Soleimani Was Worse Than a Crime
It was a blunder.
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Associated Press The Ulcer of Walter Flowers
In 1974, one congressman lay awake at night, agonizing over impeachment.
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Bettmann / Getty The Mafia Style in American Politics
Roy Cohn connects the McCarthy era to the age of Trump across more than half a century.
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Samantha Sais / Reuters The Michael Bennet Problem
What does it say about American politics that the Colorado senator hasn’t managed to stand out in the presidential race?
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Paul Spella When the Culture War Comes for the Kids
Caught between a brutal meritocracy and a radical new progressivism, a parent tries to do right by his children while navigating New York City’s schools.
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