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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty What Trump Has Taken From Us
He has made civic involvement a life-threatening proposition.
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Kevin Dietsch / Getty The Comment That Reveals the Depths of the Republican Party’s Moral Collapse
If even Rusty Bowers is willing to back Trump again, the outlook for popular democracy is very bleak.
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Michael Reynolds-Pool / Getty What Are Trump Supporters So Afraid Of?
The voice inside that tells them how wrong they are.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Trump’s Savviest Aides Already Headed for the Exits
The hearings give the former president’s followers a new excuse to quietly back away.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Images Trump’s Dangerous Wannabes
Meet the ambitious mediocrities who almost brought down American democracy.
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Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty Trump Gets the January 6 Trial He Long Dodged
The first of six House Select Committee hearings aimed to shape the president’s standing in the eyes of future voters.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Pennsylvania Becomes the Land of Oz
The TV doctor’s primary victory owes far more to Donald Trump than a well-timed endorsement.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Tayfun Coskun / … What the Primaries Reveal About the Future of Trumpism
The movement no longer depends on Trump himself.
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Andrew Harnik / AP; Scott Applewhite / AP; … The Next Big Test of Trump’s Power
The most powerful Republicans in West Virginia are backing a local favorite seeking reelection to Congress. But the former president’s wrath could sink him.
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The Atlantic Daily: Republicans Could Just Call Trump a Loser
What if the GOP stopped capitulating to Trump? Plus: There’s a reason kids make better philosophers than grown-ups do.
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Getty; The Atlantic Just Call Trump a Loser
His record is clear. Some nervy Republican challenger should say so.
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Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg / Getty Trump Supporters Explain Why They Believe the Big Lie
For many of Trump’s voters, the belief that the election was stolen is not a fully formed thought. It’s more of an attitude, or a tribal pose.
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The Atlantic Daily: Trump’s Seven-Hour Records Gap
Two of our writers look at the former POTUS’s sometimes-tenuous relationship with history itself.
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C-SPAN; Bettmann / Getty; The Atlantic Trump Can’t Just Erase History Like Nixon Did
The seven-hour gap in the record of January 6 should still be knowable, despite efforts to suppress it.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty What I Learned When Trump Tried to Correct the Record
The former president made an unusual effort to influence how historians will view him.
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Justin Merriman / Getty The Last of the Establishment Republicans
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine should be a GOP darling. What went wrong?
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty What Trump Is Hiding
Seven hours and 37 minutes of missing phone records on January 6 suggest consciousness of guilt.
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Getty; The Atlantic A Federal Judge Just Told the Truth About Trump
Judge David Carter sliced through rhetorical nonsense and confirmed what everyone saw on January 6.
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The Atlantic; Chip Somodevilla / Saul Loeb / … The Real Ginni Thomas Problem Is Trump
The calls to overturn the 2020 election results were coming from inside the White House.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Stop Waiting for Trump to Get Convicted
The chances that the criminal cases against the former president will be successful are slim to none, and that will only embolden him and his followers.
