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‘California Is Allowed to Hit Back’

October 27, 2025

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What Trump Could Learn From Ulysses S. Grant

October 27, 2025

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More Than the East Wing Got Demolished This Week

October 24, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

This Is the Shutdown That Doesn’t End

David A. Graham

October 23, 2025

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Trump’s Partisan Redistribution of Wealth

October 23, 2025

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Ozempic for All

October 20, 2025

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What Won’t Congress Let Trump Get Away With?

Conor Friedersdorf

October 17, 2025

How Are We Still Fighting About Obamacare?

October 10, 2025

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The Lincoln Way

November 2025 Issue

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What the Founders Would Say Now

Fintan O’Toole

November 2025 Issue

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The Atlantic Daily

What’s Going On With Marjorie Taylor Greene?

October 9, 2025

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Pam Bondi, Loyal Servant

October 8, 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi, photographed from behind

The Atlantic Daily

The Meme Shutdown

October 6, 2025

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YouTube Bends the Knee

October 1, 2025

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The Comey Indictment Is an Embarrassment

September 26, 2025

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The Comey Indictment Is Not Just Payback

September 25, 2025

What Republicans Can Do If They Really Want to Protect Free Speech

Conor Friedersdorf

September 25, 2025

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Trump Is Getting Closer to Having an ‘Infinite Money Pit’

September 22, 2025

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A Rogue Nation on the High Seas

September 19, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The Trump Administration Gets a Serious Scolding

David A. Graham

September 2, 2025

California National Guard troops stand guard outside Glass House Farms during a federal immigration raid in Camarillo, California, July 10, 2025.

State of Permanent Fake Emergency

Paul Rosenzweig

September 2, 2025

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Trump Just Made Burning the Flag a Little Easier

August 30, 2025

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Only One Republican Is Holding This Many Town Halls

August 30, 2025

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Show Me the Person, and I’ll Show You the Crime

Conor Friedersdorf

August 29, 2025

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The Supreme Court Made a Bad Bet

August 28, 2025

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Trump Is Trying to Shut Down a Lending Program That Helps His Voters

Toluse Olorunnipa

August 27, 2025

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Trump Is Sending a Terrifyingly Clear Message

August 25, 2025

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Trump Has No (Legal) Power to Mess With the Election

August 21, 2025

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So Much for the ‘Best Health-Care System in the World’

August 8, 2025

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What’s Holding Trump Back From Firing Powell

James Surowiecki

July 30, 2025

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Trump Is Trying to Deflect Focus From the Epstein Case—Can He?

July 26, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Why Josh Hawley Is Trying to Reverse Medicaid Cuts He Voted For

July 23, 2025

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Democracy Upside Down

July 22, 2025

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Trump’s Campaign to Crush the Media

July 21, 2025

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This Is the Presidency John Roberts Has Built

July 21, 2025

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Washington Week With The Atlantic

A Test Case for Future Funding Cuts

July 19, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic