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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Why This Time Is Different for Menendez
The New Jersey senator has retained his colleagues’ loyalty through past scandals. But now many fellow Democrats have had enough—and voters might turn on him too.
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Win McNamee / Getty The Republican Party’s Culture of Violence
Threats and intimidation are the new normal in the GOP.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic The Perfect Book for Spooky Season
Entertainment musts from Rachel Gutman-Wei
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Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / … What Taylor Swift Knows
Swift’s concert film suggests that she understands the power of the group experience.
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Gil Cohen-Magen / AFP / Getty Social Media’s ‘Frictionless Experience’ for Terrorists
These platforms were already imperfect. Now extremist groups are making sophisticated use of their vulnerabilities.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The House Mess Is What GOP Voters Wanted
This is chaos by choice, not by accident.
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Scott Eisen / Getty RFK Jr.’s Wild-Card Run
Third-party and independent candidates have always been on the sidelines of American politics, but they can exert power at key moments.
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Oliver Weiken / Getty Lest Darkness Fall
There’s still time to avert a new dark age.
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Courtesy MGM A Masterpiece of Cringe
Entertainment musts from Kate Cray
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Source of America’s Political Chaos
The election of 2016 is still poisoning our politics.
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Jane Rosenberg / Reuters FTX’s Organizational Chaos
A witness testimony this week portrayed a workplace filled with fraught power dynamics, disorganization, and hubris.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Kamala Harris Is Trying to Change the Narrative
A conversation with Elaina Plott Calabro about her profile of the vice president
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Tom Williams / Getty The World Needs a Unified and Resolute America
But the Republicans can’t even stop fighting with one another.
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Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty Hamas’s Attack Confounds Middle East Experts
Even those who understand the fundamentalist group best are struggling to understand what they are trying to achieve.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Heritage Art / … What Do You Know About 1491?
The past few decades have seen more and more research that changes the popular narrative about America before Columbus.
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Mohammed Abed / AFP / Getty Five Observations About the War in Israel
Big questions from our writers to help illuminate the latest
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Elizabeth Williams / AP The Taming of Sam Bankman-Fried
The FTX founder has long eschewed formality. Now he confronts a corner of American life where decorum counts.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty Biden’s New Student-Debt Strategy
How the return of student-loan payments will affect Americans—and what the administration is trying to do about it
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Drew Angerer / Getty When ‘Main Characters’ Commandeer Congress
The defining personality trait of our time has entered the political mainstream.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty Is Biden Relying on the Wrong Slogan?
Bidenomics is a clapback at the president’s critics. But it’s also an attempt to attach his legacy to the unwieldy forces of the economy.
