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Is Donald Trump Trying to Get Thrown in Jail?

He sure is acting like it. In April, when Judge Juan Merchan first heard arguments about whether Donald Trump was violating a gag order in his...

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The Utter Absurdity of Donald Trump and RFK Jr. Running as ‘Outsiders’

Can you believe the chutzpah of these two? One irony of the 2024 election is that, at a time when Americans profess exceptionally low faith in their...

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Biden’s Patience With Campus Protests Runs Out

Chaos in the streets—real, imagined, or exaggerated—is never to an incumbent’s advantage. For the past couple of weeks, the vortex of campus...

02.05.2024 10

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Trump’s Naps Are Actually Worrying

He can’t even seem to stay awake for his own trial. On Monday, April 15, the first day of the first criminal trial of a former president in American...

02.05.2024 10

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Trump’s Contempt Knows No Bounds

Judge Juan Merchan sanctioned the former president for the first, and likely not the last, time. Donald Trump has made his contempt for the court...

30.04.2024 10

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The Supreme Court Is Frighteningly Warm to Trump’s Immunity Argument

At this morning’s oral argument, the justices debated the ins and outs of Trump's dangerous proposition. Here are a few things that Donald Trump’s...

25.04.2024 10

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Trump’s Alternate-Reality Criminal Trial

There was little drama in the courtroom yesterday. But the former president told a very different story to his supporters. “I JUST STORMED OUT OF...

16.04.2024 20

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Trump’s Shoot-the-Moon Legal Strategy

Attacking the judges handling his cases is likely to backfire. But if it works, it will really work. With less than a week to go before the start of...

09.04.2024 10

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The Trump Two-Step

Once you recognize the pattern, you’ll see it everywhere. Is Donald Trump that clever, or are the media still just that unprepared? Whatever the...

04.04.2024 10

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A Deadly Strike in Gaza

Israel faces international condemnation after its forces targeted vehicles from the aid group World Central Kitchen. Seven people working for a...

02.04.2024 30

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Donald Trump’s Nine Lives

The former president got his latest reprieve when a court reduced the $464 million bond in his fraud case. Donald Trump loves the musical Cats , and...

25.03.2024 9

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What Was NBC Even Thinking?

Hiring Ronna McDaniel as a contributor angered the network’s contributors, staff, and audience—and with seemingly no upside. An old journalism...

25.03.2024 40

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Trump Repeats Obama’s Mistake

Political parties suffer when their focus narrows to the presidency. Donald Trump has long detested Barack Obama and sought to present himself as the...

12.03.2024 30

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The Most Unusual State of the Union in Living Memory

Republican members of Congress repeatedly heckled President Biden, who was happy to mix it up with them. Few leaders have so visibly enjoyed being...

08.03.2024 20

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Trump Is Facing Some Serious Financial Troubles

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...

07.03.2024 50

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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet

No one alive has seen a race like this. Sign up for The Decision , a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. No one alive has seen a...

06.03.2024 3

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Donald Trump’s Very Good Week

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...

06.03.2024 6

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The Republican Primary Is Over

Nikki Haley’s campaign may be over, but she can still determine its legacy. The Republican presidential primary is over. Nikki Haley, the last...

06.03.2024 6

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The Cases Against Trump: A Guide

Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...

04.03.2024 9

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Mitch McConnell Surrenders to Trump

The longtime Senate Republican leader gambled that he could outlast the former president—and lost. Dour, somber Mitch McConnell was gleeful, if such...

28.02.2024 5

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How the Steele Dossier Broke the Media

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,...

26.02.2024 6

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Trump the Survivor

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...

25.02.2024 10

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There’s Just One Problem With Gun Buybacks

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...

21.02.2024 10

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Donald Trump’s ‘Fraudulent Ways’ Cost Him $355 Million

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...

17.02.2024 80

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The Real Difference Between Trump and Biden

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...

16.02.2024 60

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The Real Difference Between Trump and Biden

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...

16.02.2024 30

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Republicans Are No Longer a Political Party

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....

13.02.2024 50

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An ‘Elderly Man With a Poor Memory’

Special Counsel Robert Hur leveled a devastating charge against Biden—just not a criminal one. A special counsel’s report into Joe Biden’s...

09.02.2024 100

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The Cases Against Trump: A Guide

Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...

08.02.2024 7

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How The Atlantic First Made Sense of Jazz

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...

08.02.2024 2

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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet

No one alive has seen a race like this. Sign up for The Decision , a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. No one alive has seen a...

08.02.2024 8

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Welcome Back to the Chaos of the Trump Era

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...

07.02.2024 10

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Court: Yes, Rule of Law Exists

A federal appeals court has rejected Trump’s claim of absolute immunity from criminal prosecution—and rightly so. A federal appeals court ruled...

06.02.2024 7

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The U.S. Tries Escalating to Deescalate

A series of attacks on Iranian-backed militias in Syria and Iraq appeared aimed at reestablishing deterrence without sparking a wider conflict. The...

03.02.2024 20

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The Nonsensical Impeachment of Alejandro Mayorkas

It’s delusions all the way down. When Donald Trump was impeached, and then impeached again, some Republicans warned that repeated uses of the...

31.01.2024 10

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The Brain-Breaking Logic of No Labels

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...

29.01.2024 20

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Is $83.3 Million Enough to Make Trump Stop Lying?

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...

27.01.2024 80

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Nothing Can Stop a Biden-Trump Rematch

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...

24.01.2024 3

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‘Control Your Client’

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...

11.01.2024 10

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The 2024 U.S. Presidential Race: A Cheat Sheet

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...

11.01.2024 10

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The Frosty Republican Sideshow in Des Moines

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,...

11.01.2024 2

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What Trump and Haley’s Civil War Gaffes Reveal

The two candidates are effectively running in different elections. This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through...

11.01.2024 30

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Trump’s Lawyers Failed a Dangerous Thought Experiment

Pressed in court, they made an argument that would destroy nearly all limitations on presidential power. Donald Trump has always displayed...

10.01.2024 100

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How Trump Taught America to Tolerate Brazen Corruption

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....

06.01.2024 20

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The GOP Completes Its Surrender

The last Republican holdouts who once were skeptical of Trump are now endorsing him. Nearly a decade into the Donald Trump phenomenon, Republicans are...

05.01.2024 10

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The Cases Against Trump: A Guide

Fraud. Hush money. Election subversion. Mar-a-Lago documents. One place to keep track of the presidential candidate’s legal troubles. Not long ago,...

04.01.2024 10

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An Old-Fashioned Scandal Fells a New Harvard President

Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday, becoming the shortest-tenured president in the university’s history. For all the focus on recent changes in the...

03.01.2024 30

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America’s Peace Wave

Sky-high violent-crime rates of recent years have suddenly—mercifully—plummeted. Rents, average monthly temperatures, grocery prices—most things...

17.12.2023 10

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The Honest Truth About Presidential Lying

Falsity is fundamental to U.S. politics. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize...

14.12.2023 8

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Republicans Are Playing House With the House

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...

14.12.2023 8

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