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BFA / Steffan Hill / HBO / Alamy A Prequel TV Series That Surprises Viewers
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a sports-stadium anthem, and more culture and entertainment recommendations
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Trump Is Suing His Own Government
The president is seeking billions in taxpayer dollars from the IRS. Whether he can do this is perhaps less important than whether he should.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Gett The ‘You Can’t Fire Me—I Quit’ Presidency
Trump has a pattern of taking radical steps to deal with what he says are serious problems—and then walking away once he encounters pushback.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty Howard Lutnick’s Epstein Story Doesn’t Make Any Sense
The commerce secretary has no answer for his misleading statements about his dealings with the sex offender.
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Johnnie Izquierdo / The Washington Post / Getty What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump’s Power
The president’s support was never a guarantee of the market’s stability.
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Kevin Mazur / Getty When the Two Sides of the Culture War Meet
Turning Point USA’s halftime show had some surprising overlap with the performance it was meant to protest.
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Element Pictures / British Broadcasting Corporation / Hulu … Six Satisfying TV Shows You Can Watch in One Sitting
These miniseries tell a good story in a single season.
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Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / Getty Why Trump Is Picking Fights With Big U.S. Banks
He claimed that his accounts were closed for “political and social” reasons. The real explanation is likely much simpler.
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Smith Collection / Gado / Getty America Is Losing the Facts That Hold It Together
The Trump administration is erasing the country’s shared understanding.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Why Trump Wants a Weaker Dollar
The approach could boost the economy—unless the president’s policies get in his own way.
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Matthew Hatcher / Bloomberg / Getty Trump’s New Threats to American Elections
The reasons to worry about election integrity are becoming more urgent.
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Eric Lee / The New York Times / … Trump Made a Bad Bet on the Kennedy Center
The president’s temporary closure of the institution is an acknowledgment that his initial makeover strategy was a failure.
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Leon Neal / Getty The Markets Are Getting Used to Trump
Traders have barely budged in response to recent Trump-related shocks.
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Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times / Getty Trump Shrugs Off the Ilhan Omar Attack
He baselessly claimed that the representative “probably had herself sprayed.”
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Alex Wong / Getty Donald Trump, Demolition Man
If his East Wing project stalls out, that will serve as a potent metaphor for his presidency.
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Arthur Maiorella / Anadolu / Getty What the Administration Is Signaling to Federal Agents After Minnesota
Trump officials’ combative defense of immigration operations has given rise to a culture of impunity.
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Hiayun Jiang / The New York Times / … The Rumbles Within Trump’s GOP
The president’s fixation on Greenland has posed yet another test for Republican leaders.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Trump Administration’s Affordability Messaging Is Confusing Americans
The president and his officials keep muddling their strategy.
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Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Trump Gives a Stump Speech at Davos
The president’s remarks at the World Economic Forum show that he still doesn’t understand how American greatness functions globally.
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Evan Vucci / AP A Surprising Change in Trump’s Behavior
The president’s recent follow-through on his threats represents a real shift in his approach.
