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Photograph by Jason Andrew for The Atlantic The Accidental Speaker
What if Mike Johnson is actually good at this?
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Photograph by Brian Finke for The Atlantic Matt Gaetz Is Winning
But what’s the prize he’s after?
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Photo-illustration by Paul Spella* A Study in Senate Cowardice
Republicans like Rob Portman could have ended Donald Trump’s political career. They chose not to.
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Matt Huynh If Trump Wins
The staff of The Atlantic on the threat a second term poses to American democracy
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Franco Pagetti / VII / Redux How We Got ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’
And other stories from eight years running The Washington Post
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Yael Malka What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate
In an exclusive excerpt from my biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.
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Illustration by Patrick White. Source: Guy Cali / … The Courtroom Is a Very Unhappy Place for Donald Trump
But don’t expect the justice system alone to save democracy.
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Mark Peterson / Redux The Worst Thing to Come Out of Trump’s Town Hall Didn’t Come From Trump
When CNN treated its event as a means of making news, it had already lost the battle.
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Damon Winter / The New York Times / … Accountability Arrives for Donald Trump
A man of borderless corruption must prepare to face the consequences.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Brandon Bell / … An Astonishing, Frightening First for the Country
The situation might be merely crass if not for the shadow of violence hanging over it.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty Where Do You Stand?
Trump’s indictment presents Republicans, and all Americans, with a clear choice.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Indicting a Former President Should Always Have Been Fair Game
A New York grand jury is treating the former commander in chief like everyone else.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Elliot Higgins / … The Trump AI Deepfakes Had an Unintended Side Effect
The most crucial element of the fake Trump-arrest images is not that they are misleading. It is that they are cinematic.
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Illustration by Doug Chayka* The GOP Is Just Obnoxious
It’s why the party keeps losing elections.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Joe Raedle / … Biden’s Classified Documents Should Have No Impact on Trump’s Legal Jeopardy
Given the facts as they are now known, only the most superficial parallel can be drawn between the two situations.
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Mateus Bonomi / Anadolu Agency via Getty The Trump-Bolsonaro Connection
Anne Applebaum on the global cohort of antidemocratic influencers that encouraged the insurrection in Brazil
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Stanislav Beloglazov / Getty; Tasos Katopodis / Getty; … The GOP Is a Battering Ram Against Truth
For Trump, the violence on January 6 was a bonus.
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Scott Olson / Getty The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump
The failure to do so is outrageous and needs to be investigated.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report
Rather than conducting a large-scale dragnet, the committee zeroed in on the former president.
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Sergei Bobylyov / Sputnik / AFP / Getty What Trump and Musk Don’t Get About Russia’s Nuclear Threats
Putin’s hollow rhetoric warrants no concessions from the West.
