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Political parties suffer when their focus narrows to the presidency. Donald Trump has long detested Barack Obama and sought to present himself as the...
Republican members of Congress repeatedly heckled President Biden, who was happy to mix it up with them. Few leaders have so visibly enjoyed being...
His political fortunes may be looking up, but his business problems are dire. The danger posed to Donald Trump’s finances by two recent judgments...
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The Supreme Court and Republican Party members are all voting in his favor. Donald Trump has often seemed to succeed in politics in spite of...
Nikki Haley’s campaign may be over, but she can still determine its legacy. The Republican presidential primary is over. Nikki Haley, the last...
Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...
The longtime Senate Republican leader gambled that he could outlast the former president—and lost. Dour, somber Mitch McConnell was gleeful, if such...
The right became too credulous and the mainstream press too timid. The parallel was striking—but perhaps no one wanted to see it. Last week,...
He always manages to find a way. For almost a decade, the country has been just one simple trick away from relegating Donald Trump to obscurity. Most...
They don’t work. One warm North Carolina fall morning, a platoon of Durham County Sheriff’s Office employees was enjoying an exhibit of historical...
Justice Arthur Engoron’s ruling is not fatal for Trump’s business empire, but it might be a near-death experience. A New York judge fined Donald...
Watching both men in office reveals a sharp distinction. Americans likely face a choice this fall between two men they don’t want for president. Or...
Watching both men in office reveals a sharp distinction Americans likely face a choice this fall between two men they don’t want for president. Or...
It’s become yet another subsidiary of Trump Inc. When historians chronicle the end of the Grand Old Party, they may mark 2024 as the turning point....
Special Counsel Robert Hur leveled a devastating charge against Biden—just not a criminal one. A special counsel’s report into Joe Biden’s...
Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...
In 1922, a musicologist imagined how future historians might judge the day’s jazz cynics. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey...
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Yesterday provided a small glimpse of the madness to come. Mardi Gras comes next Tuesday, but Republicans decided to throw a wild carnival a week...
A federal appeals court has rejected Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution—and rightly so. A federal appeals court ruled...
A series of attacks on Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq appeared aimed at reestablishing deterrence without sparking a wider conflict. The...
It’s delusions all the way down. When Donald Trump was impeached, and then impeached again, some Republicans warned that repeated uses of the...
The group has a reasonable criticism of American politics, but its approach won’t help matters. The centrist group No Labels has been the object of...
To avoid today’s eye-popping verdict, he just needed to stop talking about E. Jean Carroll. A jury in New York today put a price on Donald Trump’s...
How did the country end up with a choice that most of its voters don’t want? Well, here it is. With Donald Trump’s victory in tonight’s New...
Donald Trump’s disrespect for the law was on prominent display in a Manhattan courtroom earlier today. Donald Trump was determined to make one more...
No one alive has seen a race like this. No one alive has seen a race like the 2024 presidential election. For months, if not years, many people have...
Only two candidates took the stage in the final Republican debate before the Iowa caucus. Last night, the weather was chilly outside in Des Moines,...
The two candidates are effectively running in different elections. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through...
Pressed in court, they made an argument that would destroy nearly all limitations on presidential power. Donald Trump has always displayed...
At least when it’s his. Have you heard about the president who received money from China and other foreign countries? No, not the current president....
The last Republican holdouts who once were skeptical of Trump are now endorsing him. Nearly a decade into the Donald Trump phenomenon, Republicans are...
Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...
Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday, becoming the shortest-tenured president in the university’s history. For all the focus on recent changes in the...
Sky-high violent-crime rates of recent years have suddenly—mercifully—plummeted. Rents, average monthly temperatures, grocery prices—most things...
Falsity is fundamental to U.S. politics. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize...
Yesterday’s vote to open an impeachment inquiry is one more example of the GOP’s pantomime of actual governance. Once upon a time—say, as...
We’ve become inured to his rhetoric, but his message has grown darker. “We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists,...
But not after that. Donald Trump, the former president of the United States who tried to steal the 2020 election, says he’ll be a dictator on day...
No one alive has seen a race like this. No one alive has seen a race like the 2024 presidential election. For months, if not years, many people have...
A series of southern states have ignored federal court rulings on voting rights. When, earlier this year, Alabama simply refused to draw congressional...
Bad things happen when political candidates fear personal consequences of an electoral loss. Bill Clinton sometimes joked that the White House was...
To the extent that old age is an issue for Joe Biden, it should be an issue for Trump as well. Donald Trump is an old man. He’s 77 years old. When...
An investigation into the New York congressman is a spicy read, but he still refuses to take responsibility. Fiction can be riveting, as the many lies...
Many of his recent statements illustrate a profoundly un-American set of ideas. With apologies to a certain newspaper’s slogan, many of Donald...
No one alive has seen a race like this. No one alive has seen a race like the 2024 presidential election. For months, if not years, many people have...
Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...
The House GOP’s new litmus test One paradox of the current House Republican majority, and a sign of the deep cleavages within it, is that having...
Jenna Ellis becomes the latest Trump functionary to learn that his emphasis on loyalty only flows one way. The symmetry is striking: two lawyers, two...