Ideas

A can of gasoline labeled MAGA
Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic

How Trump Killed Conservatism

The president has cultivated and encouraged the ugliest passions within the GOP, dousing the embers of hate with kerosene.

Illustration with black-and-white photos of airplanes flying, Pete Hegseth saluting, and a reimagined version of the painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware”
Illustration by Lucy Naland. Sources: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty; Getty.

The Lecture I Couldn’t Give

Now more than ever, our armed forces need to understand the history of civil-military relations.

DHS emblem, broken into pieces
Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty.

How to Fix DHS

The answer to the agency’s abuses is not reform; it is wholesale disassembly and restructuring.

a pixelated silhouette of a face
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic

The First AI Crisis Is Psychological

The economic shocks may well be coming, but we have already entered an age of profound uncertainty about ourselves and the world around us.

Illustration with black-and-white photo of Cesar Chavez alongside orange tinted photos of raised fists, applause, signs from a worker’s strike, and a man speaking into a megaphone
Illustration by Lucy Naland. Sources: Reed Saxon / AP; Scott Maguire / AP; AP.

The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez

One of the most revered figures in American history can no longer be called heroic. But the movement he led can be.