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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty There’s No Such Thing as a Free Plane
Donald Trump is in talks to accept a $400 million gift from Qatar—presumably not simply out of generosity.
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Martin Barraud / Getty Seven Weekend Reads
Spend time with stories about the risks of trying to raise successful kids, an alarming trend affecting the job market, and more.
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Brad J. Vest / The New York Times … Tyre Nichols and the End of Police Reform
If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality problem are very bleak.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Big Focus on Federal Judges Is Not a Good Sign
Elevating them as individuals only serves Trump’s interests.
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Adrienne Bresnahan / Getty The Art of the Price Hike
Trump’s tariff plan has pushed America’s businesses into a nightmarish experiment.
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Bill Clark / Getty Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options
How to make sense of their stumbling progress—perhaps—toward a major fiscal bill
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Rebecca Noble / Getty Trump Is Hiding Behind His Lawyers
The president wants to seize new powers, yet he’s also eager to hand off responsibility for hard decisions.
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danm / Getty How to Stay in Touch With Your Friends
The Atlantic’s writers and editors share what they do when life gets in the way.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Trump’s Hollow Defense of Tariffs
His usual marketing savvy is nowhere to be seen.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Mike Waltz Joins an Unhappy Fraternity
Even without Signalgate, the president wasn’t likely to keep his national security adviser around long.
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Jesus Vargas / Picture Alliance / Getty Schrödinger’s Detainees
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of hundreds of prisoners in El Salvador who have been denied their day in court.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The Polls Are Sending Trump a Message
The president is eager to blame the messenger. But his real problem is the numbers themselves.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The One Thing That Drives Trump
Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer discuss the challenges of reporting on the president.
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Liudmila Evsegneeva Six Stories for Your Weekend
Spend time with our reading list on an “impossible” disease outbreak in the Alps, why grandparents are reaching their limit, and more.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources. Tracy King / … What Porn Did to American Culture
Sophie Gilbert discusses how the industry defined womanhood, sex, and power.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: J. David Ake … The Project 2025 Presidency
The blueprint for Trump 2.0 predicted much of what we’ve seen so far—and much of what’s to come.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Inside the Fight Over Trump’s Foreign Policy
His administration is locked in a secret struggle over America’s role in the world.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty What the Democratic Infighting Reveals
The party remains in a state of disunion—not only about their future, but about how to address the present catastrophe.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Pete Hegseth Is Running Out of Excuses
A set of scandals and turnover at the Pentagon undermine the already flimsy case for his leadership.
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Warner Bros. A Strangely Moving Cartoon Show
Culture and entertainment musts from Allegra Frank
