Politics

Photograph of Donald Trump in MAGA hat looking at rows of empty cots behind chain-link bars
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‘We Voted for Retribution’

Over the next four years, some $45 billion will be spent on ICE detention centers, which will hold mainly people who have never been convicted of any crime.

Photo-illustration of Alan Garber and Harvard's campus
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Rick Friedman / AFP / Getty; Erica Denhoff / Icon Sportswire / Getty.

Can This Man Save Harvard?

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

Graphic illustration of a distorted apple on a teacher's desk in an old-fashioned classroom.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: GraphicaArtis / Getty.

The Supreme Court Won’t Explain Itself

In their decision allowing the Trump administration to dismantle the Department of Education, the justices didn’t offer one word of reasoning.

An illustration of the Kremlin next to a black-and-white photo of Donald Trump
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Alexander Nemenov / Getty; Michael M. Santiago / Getty.

How Putin Humiliated Trump

The real reason the president suddenly sounds tougher on Russia