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Mark Peterson / Redux J. D. Vance Learns What Mike Pence Already Knows
The vice president is realizing that signing on with Donald Trump might seem like a shortcut to the top, but it’s actually a guarantee of humiliation.
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Megan Varner / Bloomberg / Getty A Test for Trump’s Most Faithful
The longer the Iran war drags on, the more the president risks splintering a historically unified base.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Maybe DOGE Was Just Looking in the Wrong Places
Perhaps it should have been looking more closely at President Trump’s Cabinet to find wasteful spending.
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Mark Humphrey / AP A Horrible Throwback to the Early 2000s
Members of Congress are using the kind of anti-Muslim rhetoric that was common then—this time with a president who has encouraged it.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Trump Can’t Decide Whether the Iran War Is Still Going On
The president seems to be at odds with both himself and his secretary of defense about the status of the conflict.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters The Wild 24-Hour Rise and Fall of Oil Prices
Americans will bear the costs if energy shocks in the Middle East lead to a full-blown crisis.
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Moviestore Collection Ltd / Alamy Six Bizarre Movies That Are Actually Fun to Watch
Weird wins you over in these films.
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Doug Mills / Pool / Getty Who Is the U.S. Actually at War With Right Now?
The Iran conflict is one in an extensive list of Trump-era interventions.
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Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem
His use of the Iran-war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.
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Morteza Nikoubazl /NurPhoto / Getty What Anti-Regime Iranians Can’t Agree On
A conversation with Arash Azizi about Iranians’ hopes for their country and what it will take to get there
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Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg / Getty Trump Has Given America a Constitutional Dilemma
Congress should not have to argue over whether to trigger the War Powers Resolution, and certainly not in the midst of conflict.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty The Diplomats Who Carry Trump’s Grievances Abroad
Some of the president’s ambassadors keep getting into needless conflicts.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kevin Dietsch / … Anthropic Takes a Stand
The company is refusing to bow to the Pentagon’s demands.
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Yuri Gripas / Sipa USA / AP Trump’s Chance to Turn Things Around Tonight
A conversation with Jonathan Lemire about what Donald Trump’s State of the Union address could achieve—if he doesn’t get in his own way.
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Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic The Revenge of the Dummymander
Partisan gerrymandering sometimes backfires on the people drawing the maps. Could that happen again in 2026?
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PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Alamy A Blockbuster That Understands Ambition
Culture and entertainment recommendations including The Devil Wears Prada, Agatha Christie novels, and more
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Win McNamee / Getty The DOJ Isn’t Built for This
The department can’t keep up with President Trump’s agenda.
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Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / … The Latest Ploy to Help Republicans Win Elections
The SAVE Act, which would require that voters prove they are citizens, is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Samuel Corum / … Censorship Comes for Stephen Colbert
The latest dustup between the talk-show host and CBS should be concerning for people of any political leaning.
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BFA / Steffan Hill / HBO / Alamy A Prequel TV Series That Surprises Viewers
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, a sports-stadium anthem, and more culture and entertainment recommendations
