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Jim Bourg / AP Trump's Uneasy Gamble
The 45th President’s inaugural address encapsulated the risky gamble the Republican Party is taking on his combative approach.
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Darren Abate / AP What America’s Small-Town Mayors Think About Trump
The local leaders are breaking from tradition to weigh in on presidential politics.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Why Some Democrats in Congress Refuse to Attend Trump's Inauguration
“Trump is absolutely trying to attack our democratic institutions and to make the country more authoritarian,” one Democratic lawmaker warns.
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Mike Segar/Reuters Will Mike Pence Be Trump’s Bridge to Democrats?
Indiana Democrats weigh in on their experience with the former governor.
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Savo Prelevic / AFP / Getty Can Evangelicals Help Trump Thaw Relations With Russia?
They were Ronald Reagan’s allies during the Cold War. But some now want the president-elect to build bridges with Vladimir Putin.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republican Women Donald Trump Alienated
Conservative women who oppose the incoming president must decide whether to stay in the GOP or leave.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Would Trump's Infrastructure Plan Fix America's Cities?
Public-works projects have historically improved urbanites’ access to opportunity and quality of life. But they've also helped the privileged at the expense of the marginalized.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare?
These voters overwhelmingly oppose the Affordable Care Act. Yet millions of them have gained health-care coverage under the law.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Democratic Party Faces a Daunting Future
It won’t be easy for the party to win back voters lost to the GOP.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP The Ideological Reasons Why Democrats Have Neglected Local Politics
After losing many races in 2016, the party is looking to regain power outside the federal government. But in many ways, it’s not set up to make that change of emphasis.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Republicans Grapple With the Risk of Overreach
The GOP launched the 115th Congress with an embarrassing misstep on ethics.
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Charles Dharapak / AP Why Christians Are Disproportionately Powerful in Congress
The U.S. is becoming more diverse in terms of faith, but its legislature isn’t. A major reason? Non-religious Americans' voting rates.
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Paul Sancya / AP A President Without an Administration
The Trump transition is behind schedule in vetting its nominees, and struggling to fill senior positions before the inauguration.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Obama Leaves the Constitution Weaker Than He Found It
Even for those like me who admire the 44th president, the constitutional record is disturbingly mixed.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters 'He Was the Nationalist Candidate'
The editor of First Things on Donald Trump and the limits of multi-cultural democracy
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Obama's Faith in White America Was Not Misplaced
Donald Trump’s rise, and Hillary Clinton’s loss, is not a sign that America is irredeemably bigoted.
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David Goldman, Richard Drew, Steve Helber, Chuck Burton … The Year in Religion and Politics
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016—from religious-liberty bills to Donald Trump's polarizing effect on evangelicals.
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Jeff Roberson, Andres Kudacki, Evan Vucci, Charles Rex … The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016, when longstanding tensions over race and identity erupted into conflict.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Democrats Have a Religion Problem
A conversation with Michael Wear, a former Obama White House staffer, about the party’s illiteracy on and hostility toward white evangelicals
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Evan Vucci, Gerry Broome, Andrew Harnik, Frank Franklin … The Year in Election Coverage
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016, when a lot happened in the world of politics
