McKay Coppins
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Paul Spella / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coming Republican Amnesia
How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened.
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The Atlantic The Bitter Reality of the Post-Trump GOP
President Trump’s departure from office may be imminent, but the future of the party he’s leaving behind is less certain than ever.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty The Resistance’s Breakup With the Media Is at Hand
The White House spent four years vilifying journalists. What comes next?
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Michael Friberg The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
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The Atlantic When the MAGA Bubble Burst
At Steve Bannon’s Election Night party, bravado reigned. But reality quickly caught up with the Trumpism diehards.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Trump Campaign’s Chaotic Closing Strategy
Its “election-security operation” has the potential to wreak havoc next week.
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Roslan Rahman / Getty Pence in the Wings
President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis in the final weeks of the 2020 election puts the vice president under a microscope.
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Alex Wong / Getty Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters
Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.
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The Atlantic The Red State That Isn’t Worried About a Mail-In Election
Utah has thoroughly embraced voting by mail with no problems. Why can’t the rest of the country follow suit?
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty / The ... A Carnival of Disinformation
Republicans warmly welcomed voters into their post-truth convention.
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The Atlantic / Getty Larry Hogan Isn’t Coming to Save the Republican Party
The governor of Maryland is betting his future on a kinder, gentler post-Trump GOP. Good luck with that.
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Michelle Boorstein / The Washington Post / Getty Why Romney Marched
The path that led the Republican senator to march in a Black Lives Matter protest began half a century ago with his father.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Christians Who Loved Trump’s Stunt
The president’s photo op outside St. John’s Church was emblematic of his appeal to the religious right.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.
The surreal experience of flying during a pandemic, and the false promise of a return to normal
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Adam Maida False Prophet
Media-bashing robocalls, chloroquine Twitter trolls, briefing-room propaganda—how the president and his allies are trying to convince America he was right all along.
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Ina Jang The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun
Across the country, social distancing is morphing from a public-health to political act. The consequences could be disastrous.
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Yale Joel / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... The Stockpile of Food in My Garage
As I hunker down at home with my family amid a global pandemic, I have a new appreciation for a strange religious tradition.
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Samuel Corum / Stringer / Getty / The ... Trump’s Dangerously Effective Coronavirus Propaganda
The president’s effort to play down the pandemic is being amplified by a coalition of partisan media, digital propagandists, and White House officials.
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Illustration: Mishko; Hanna Alandi / Getty The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
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Mark Wilson / Getty / The Atlantic How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty
Comparing the president’s behavior to that of an autocrat, the Republican senator explains to The Atlantic why he’s voting to convict him.
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