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Daniel Steinle / Reuters Mandela Barnes’s Last Punch
The Democratic candidate hasn’t found a way to respond to Senator Ron Johnson’s attacks on crime, and is foundering in the polls as a result.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Caught Between the Electorally Disastrous and the Morally Monstrous
Democrats can’t find a message on crime they believe in.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty This Is What Decadence Looks Like
Saving democracy shouldn’t be the Democrats’ main pitch to voters.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Why Is America Always Divided 50–50?
Despite wrenching economic and political changes in the country, Democrats and Republicans keep finding themselves nearly tied in election after election.
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Illustration by Lizzie Hart What Joe Biden Has (And Hasn’t) Accomplished
During the first half of his term, the president has radically expanded the social safety net but struggled to protect voting rights.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide
The rights reversal taking place in conservative states is just the beginning.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Democrats’ Long Goodbye to the Working Class
The party’s biggest challenge heading into the midterm elections is the erosion of its traditional base of support.
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Saul Loeb / Getty The Obama Nostalgia Show
On the stump for Democrats, the former president invoked hope. But even the party faithful know that things have changed.
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The Atlantic Is Gmail Silencing Republicans?
The right wing’s funniest grievance against Google and its ridiculous result
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Stock Montage / Getty What’s the One Book That Explains American Politics Today?
The Atlantic’s writers have chosen books to help you understand the stakes of the midterms.
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John Moore/Getty What’s at Stake for Election Workers
Staff writers Mark Leibovich and Tim Alberta discuss the state of America’s electoral system ahead of the 2022 midterms.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty A Closing Argument for Democracy
The president defends American institutions, but it might be too late.
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Philip Montgomery for The Atlantic Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters
The left has alienated America’s fastest-growing group of voters just when they were supposed to give the party a foolproof majority.
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The Atlantic; Getty; Malike Sidibe for The Atlantic; … C. J. Rice’s Narrow Path to Freedom
The subject of The Atlantic’s November cover story maintains his innocence. Will the politicians on Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons vote to commute his sentence?
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Getty Do Voters Care About John Fetterman’s Stroke?
The Democrat’s health status is a legitimate election issue for Pennsylvanians. The question is what they should make of it.
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Meg Kinnard / AP; The Atlantic The Perfect Candidate for a Fallen Party
Herschel Walker illustrates where Trump has taken the GOP.
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Matt Rourke / AP Don’t Patronize Fetterman
The Pennsylvania Democrat deserves to face the same questions—and to be given the same opportunities—as any other candidate.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Why Politics Has Become So Stressful
Fewer voters and states than ever before now decide the fate of our republic.
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Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg / Getty What Democrats Don’t Understand About Ron Johnson
The Wisconsin Senate race reveals larger truths about the GOP.
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The Atlantic How Far Would a Republican Majority Go?
Not just democracy is at stake this fall.
