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Erin Scott / Bloomberg / Getty Mike Pence Refuses to Connect the Dots
In his new memoir, the former vice president selectively edits his four years with Trump to avoid a necessary reckoning.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Trump’s Future Isn’t Up to Fox News
Whatever the conservative grass roots decide, the establishment will be a step or two behind, desperately trying to catch up with the people it claims to lead.
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Mark Wallheiser / Getty Can DeSantis Unseat Trump?
The long-awaited Republican reckoning has only just begun, says David Frum.
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty The Trump Apocalypse Has Not Been Canceled
American democracy and its support for historical alliances remain under threat from within.
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Ronda Churchill / AFP / Getty More MAGA Than Ever
It’s hard to overstate how radicalized and anarchic the base of the Republican Party remains.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Yana Paskova / Getty; … America’s Mediocre Hero
In his newest book, Michael Cohen seems to be no longer a witness to history, but rather a man fractured by history.
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Doug Mills / New York Times / Redux Trump Lost the Midterms. DeSantis Won.
If the Florida governor ever intends to wrest control of the GOP from Trump, now is his moment.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Donald Trump Tried to Destroy the Constitution
What will it take for millions of Americans to care?
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty There’s Only One Group to Blame for How Republicans Flocked to Trump
And it’s not “the media.”
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Jamie Squire / Getty Americans Deserve to Hear From Trump
The public should learn what its president was doing in a pivotal moment.
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Jonno Rattman for The Atlantic The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump
Merrick Garland hasn’t tipped his hand, but it’s clear to me that he will bring charges against the former president.
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Rebecca Noble / Getty Trumpism Has Found Its Leading Lady
The Republican candidate for Arizona governor not only won Trump’s endorsement but has emerged as his most talented emulator. Is Kari Lake the new face of the MAGA movement?
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Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Trump, Putin, and the Assault of Anarchy
We must refuse to get used to it all.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Do Former Presidents Have Access to Classified Information?
The current laws and norms are badly in need of reform.
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Federico Yankelevich Three Conversations With Donald Trump
The former president tried to sell his preferred version of himself, but said much more than he intended.
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Yuki Iwamura / AFP / Getty Trump’s Terrible Week
E. Jean Carroll, the New York attorney general, and a panel of judges are piling on the former president.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Tipping Point of Stupid
In most states, you can’t pass yourself off as an election-denying January 6 truther and still be taken seriously by a majority of voters.
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Mario Tama / Getty It’s Just Fraud All the Way Down
The complaint filed today by New York Attorney General Letitia James is remarkable not for the shrewdness of the misconduct it alleges, but for its audacity.
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AP; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic Trump Endorsed QAnon Because He’s Stuck
He’s grasping at straws, not solidifying his political base.
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Jeff Swensen / Getty Trump’s New Recruits
He’s embracing the QAnon conspiracy theorists.
