The Operator
Josh Shapiro has spent his life preparing to lead an America that might no longer exist.
Tim Alberta
Tim Alberta is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He was previously the chief political correspondent for Politico. He is also the author of American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump.
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Jonna Rattman for The Atlantic The Advice Elissa Slotkin Didn’t Take
The Michigan senator wants to set a new tone for the Democratic resistance.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Paul Sancya / Pool / Getty. Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign
“What’s discipline got to do with winning?”
Joseph Rushmore for The Atlantic Why Mike Lee Folded
In 2016, he tried to stop Trump from becoming president. By 2020, he was trying to help Trump overturn the election. Now he could become Trump’s attorney general.
Justin T. Gellerson This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared
A campaign that had been optimized to beat Joe Biden must now be reinvented.
Roger Kisby / Redux for The Atlantic ‘What the Heck Just Happened?’
The moment inside the convention hall when we learned—abruptly—that Donald Trump had chosen J. D. Vance
Win McNamee / Getty Trump Is Planning for a Landslide Win
And his campaign is all but praying Joe Biden doesn’t drop out.
Roger Kisby The Only Thing More Dangerous Than Authoritarianism
The forces of Christian nationalism are now ascendant both inside the Church and inside the Republican Party.
Zeb Andrews / Getty My Father, My Faith, and Donald Trump
Here, in our house of worship, people were taunting me about politics as I tried to mourn.
Pablo Delcan Dean Phillips Has a Warning for Democrats
The Minnesota representative’s presidential bid could jolt his party out of complacency—or gift the presidency to Donald Trump.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Kevin Dietsch / UPI / Bloomberg / Getty; Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call / Getty.
