Politics

From left to right: Donald Trump (in black and white), Bill Maher (in color), and Mark Twain (in black and white)
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA / Bloomberg / Getty; Steve Granitz / FilmMagic; Bettmann / Getty.

Not So Fast, Bill Maher

The comedian was set to receive the Twain Prize before a sudden reversal of course.

Border Wall at night
Philip Cheung for The Atlantic

The ‘Big Black Scar’

Trump is blowing up national-park land in Arizona to wall off one of the border’s last wild places.