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Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Annabelle Gordon / … The Trump Team’s Denials Are Laughable
The president’s officials must know that what they did in the Signal group chat was wrong—and dangerous.
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Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty But Her Emails?
The Signal security breach would be bad enough if those involved had not spent so much time criticizing Hillary Clinton for her mishandling of classified information.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Pool /CNP / … A Conversation With Jeffrey Goldberg About His Extraordinary Scoop
How The Atlantic’s editor in chief found himself in a group chat with Trump-administration officials who were planning an attack on Yemen
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Bettmann / Getty When the KKK Came to D.C.
Revisiting a 1925 march through the eyes of Black newspapers
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Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg The Danger of a Flood of Anti-Trump State Lawsuits
What’s legal for the goose is also legal for the gander.
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Rudi Von Briel / Getty A Warning for Columbia University
Surrendering to the Trump administration’s $400 million ransom demand would be a disaster for higher education and for the United States.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump Wants Credit for That Too
The president is boasting about initiatives from before he took office.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What John Roberts’s Rebuke of Trump Left Out
In pushing back against Trump’s attack on a federal judge, the chief justice neglected to mention the substantive dispute of the case.
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El Salvador Presidency / Handout / Anadolu / … What Trump Means by ‘Impartial Justice’
The president’s definition of law and order is a narrow one.
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FlixPix / Alamy Five Movies That Changed Viewers’ Minds
Our writers and editors on the films that shifted how they see the world
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Andrew Harnik / Getty What Trump and Musk Want With Social Security
The two maintain that they won’t attack the program, but their repeated claims of rampant fraud serve a strategic purpose.
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Nathan Posner / Anadolu / Getty Is This a Crisis or Not?
Democrats insist that this is a dire moment for the nation. A government-funding deadline is a chance for them to show that they mean it.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Donald Trump, Tesla Salesman
In promoting Elon Musk’s car company, Donald Trump showed just how far he’ll go for his allies.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The Whiplash Presidency
The president and his aides are changing their minds at nauseating speed.
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Michael A. McCoy for The Washington Post via … The Whistleblower for the Whistleblowers
As the leader of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger’s role was to get wrongfully fired civil servants back on the job—until he got fired himself.
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Dean Conger / Corbis via Getty A Novel About a Father’s Choice
Culture and entertainment musts from Shane Harris
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: … The Pentagon’s DEI Panic
What are the nation’s warfighters so afraid of?
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Peter Zay / Anadolu / Getty The November Election That Still Hasn’t Been Certified
North Carolinians voted in a state-supreme-court election four months ago. What’s going on?
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Kayla Bartkowski / Getty The Democrats’ ‘No We Can’t’ Strategy
The party hasn’t shown much of an ability to unite around its best interests lately.
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Jan Sonnenmair / Getty Why This Measles Outbreak Is Different
America’s regression could change the experience of childhood.
