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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty. The Tea Party Is Back (Maybe)
Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and others are striking a tone of fiscal conservatism that sounds a lot like that of the 2010s.
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jeenah Moon / … Trump’s Deportation Goals Are Unrealistic
Administration officials continue to push the boundaries of the law in trying to enforce the president’s policy.
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Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto / Getty What America Can Learn From Iran’s Failure
The regime’s predicament shows what happens when conspiracies, rather than reality, shape decision making.
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Alex Kent / Getty How Voters Lost Their Aversion to Scandal
Andrew Cuomo’s strong position in the mayoral race is a reminder that this is a golden age for comebacks.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump Wants to ‘Make Iran Great Again’
The president’s call for “regime change” brings unpleasant echoes of the Iraq War.
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Carlos Barria / AP The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next?
President Trump is taking an enormous risk.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Michael M. … ICE Agent or Just Some Person?
There’s a dress code to help you make that determination.
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Rashod Taylor The Hollowness of This Juneteenth
The holiday was always an implicit warning that what had been done could be done again.
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Nathan Howard / Reuters Trump’s Trouble With Tulsi
The president appointed an intelligence chief who resents the intelligence community as much as he does. But reality is setting in.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Ringo Chio / … The Democratic Party Slides Into Irrelevance
Why aren’t these boom times for America’s opposition party?
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Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Saul Loeb/ AFP … 12 Days in Trump’s America
The enormous demonstrations against Trump were closely connected to the chaos of the days before.
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Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty … Six Weekend Stories
Read about a surprisingly practical guide to being happier, an infamous escape artist, and more.
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Etienne Laurent / AP Handcuffing a U.S. Senator Is a Warning
The treatment of Alex Padilla is part of a pattern of harassing Donald Trump’s opposition.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Why Won’t the Pentagon Own Up to Trump’s Latest Move?
The administration is oddly bashful about its most recent attempt to campaign against symbols of “wokeness.”
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Bettmann / Getty Dispatches From the Death Chamber
A conversation with Elizabeth Bruenig about murder and forgiveness
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David McNew / Getty The Protests Are Just Starting
Large demonstrations were effective during Trump’s first term. The same could be true now.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds … Trump vs. California
The president is bullying states when it suits him and ignoring them when it doesn’t.
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Photograph by Benjamin Malapris for The Atlantic Paris Can Be Intimidating—But It Has Great Butter
A conversation with Caity Weaver about following Mark Twain there
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Sarah Silbiger / Getty America the Fortress
Trump is using travel bans to keep some people out—and additional means to make sure others don’t want to even visit.
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Roberto Schmidt / AFP; Getty Elon Musk Goes Nuclear
The world’s richest man and the president of the United States are now openly fighting.
