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Joe Raedle / Getty; The Atlantic The Weight of Trump
Across the ideological spectrum, midterm voters lament a shared albatross.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic Why Bill Barr Turned on Trump
No one should think he’s having second thoughts about the awful things he did in office.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Republican Party Was Trumpy Long Before Trump
The GOP today isn’t a break from the past so much as a direct result of it.
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Whitney Hayward / Portland Portland Press Herald / … Has Trumpism Run Out of Steam?
Paul LePage, who pioneered the tactics that propelled Trump into office, is running again for governor of Maine. Only this time, he’s quietly backing away from the former president.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Problem for Trump’s Intellectual Heirs
The “national conservatives” know what they dislike, but not what to do about it.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Nice Democracy You’ve Got Here. Shame If Something Happened to It.
Donald Trump’s newest defense strategy is laced with menace.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The John Durham Probe Gave Trump What He Wanted
Trump’s vindication can never be failed; it can only be delayed.
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Getty; The Atlantic Trump Opened Pandora’s Prosecutorial Box
For centuries America has avoided seriously considering whether former presidents should ever be prosecuted. Now that luxury is gone.
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Mark Makela / Getty There’s No Escaping the Truth About Trump
The former president has imprinted his moral pathologies and will-to-power ethic on the Republican Party.
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Win McNamee / Getty; The Atlantic Trump Is Caught in a Double Bind
The former president’s winning strategy is also a losing one.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Right-Wing War on Free Speech Could Backfire
Progressives aren’t the only ones who need free-speech protections.
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Ed Jones / AFP / Getty The Nihilism of MAGA World
The president said something frightening and true.
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Brandon Bell / Getty; Mario Tama / Getty; … A Ruling Untethered to the Law
By appointing a special master to review the Mar-a-Lago documents, Judge Aileen Cannon gave Trump the special treatment he asked for—and undermined the values of her profession.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It.
At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke.
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Ed Jones / AFP / Getty Trump Returns to Rally Team MAGA
At the former president’s first rally since the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago, the mood among his supporters veered from desperation to defiance.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The Speech No President Should Have to Give
Joe Biden’s duty made it necessary.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted
A revealing photo removed any remaining ambiguity.
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Department of Justice / AP Trump Can’t Hide From the Mar-a-Lago Photo
The Department of Justice keeps outsmarting the former president in its efforts to recover the government’s classified materials.
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Brent Stirton / Getty Fear of Fascism
We’re hesitant to use the word, and for good reason.
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Scott Olson / Getty What’s in a Classified Document?
What Trump did is more dangerous than you know.
