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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Are the Democrats Overthinking This?
In wringing its hands over how to win elections, the party is ignoring the more foundational question of what it believes in.
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Sebastian Mast / Connected Archives The Deadline for a Major Shutdown Casualty
Roughly 42 million Americans may not get their SNAP benefits on Saturday.
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Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic North Carolina Is the Canary in the Election Coal Mine
Americans don’t have to imagine what attempts to subvert an election could look like, because it’s already happening in one state.
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Scott Olson / Getty A Donor-Funded Army Wouldn’t Just Be Illegal—It Would be Dangerous
You don’t need a political-science degree to understand why wealthy individuals cutting secret checks to the president to pay the military is a bad idea.
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Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Seven Heist Movies for Your Weekend
These films won’t swindle you out of a good time.
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David Ryder / Getty Trump Grants Clemency to One of the World’s Richest Men
The recent pardon is an overture to an industry that has made the president millions.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty This Is the Shutdown That Doesn’t End
It just goes on and on, my friends.
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Samuel Corum / Bloomberg / Getty MAGA’s Group-Chat Problem
What is it about the president’s supporters and group-texting that keeps resulting in fiascos?
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Illustration / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Internet Is Going to Break Again
The Amazon outage revealed just how consolidated the web has become.
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Janie Osborne / Getty Why the ‘No Kings’ Protests Matter
Huge demonstrations won’t translate into immediate political results, but there’s a reason the president is so bothered by them.
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Illustration by Peter Gamlen The Forces Changing Music and Film Criticism
The industry is being transformed in the era of YouTube video essays and TikTok screeds.
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Stefani Reynolds / Getty It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It
A week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics
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Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty This Gold Rush Is Ominous
The king of precious metals is having a good run right now. That might be a problem.
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La Unión de los Ríos / Amazon Studios … A Foreign-Film Starter Pack
Five movies for viewers who want to try something new
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty The Beginning of a New DOJ
Trump’s quest for retribution is remaking the department.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty What’s Going On With Marjorie Taylor Greene?
The Georgia representative is finding a new voice.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Politicians Aren’t Cool Enough to Curse This Much
Political leaders once watched their language. Now they delight in using obscenity.
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Jim Vondruska / Reuters The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic The Meme Shutdown
Stale social-media comedy isn’t a substitute for coherent policy.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic The AI Money Vortex
OpenAI is worth $500 billion now. What are its investors getting back?
