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Mandel Ngan / Getty 19 Readers on Donald Trump’s Legal Future
“It’s time for the hammer of the law to come down hard on him.”
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Nicholas Kamm / Getty; Olivier Douliery / Getty; … The Rising Cost of Republicans’ Investment in Trump
GOP voters may be angry about Biden’s student-debt bailout, but the political bargain their party leaders made is the underlying problem.
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Jon Elswick / AP What the Search-Warrant Affidavit Tells Us
The former president was not giving up top-secret national-security documents. DOJ had no choice but to act. Trump has only himself to blame.
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Getty; The Atlantic Don’t Succumb to MAGA Fatalism
Three strategies to cope with Trump-induced gloom.
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The Atlantic Breaking Down an American Catastrophe
The biggest findings from Caitlin Dickerson’s investigation into the Trump administration’s family-separation policy
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James Devaney / GC Images / Getty; The … The Classified-Files Scandal Is the Most Trumpy Scandal of All
And that’s exactly why it’s so dangerous.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images How the FBI Search Revived Trump
GOP presidential hopefuls have gotten a powerful reminder that their political future is inextricably linked to Donald Trump’s.
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Illustration by The Atlantic The Donald J. Trump Guide to Getting Away With Anything
The former president has a knack for avoiding consequences for his misbehavior.
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Jabin Botsford / Getty The Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’ Put Ron DeSantis in a Box
He has little option but to show loyalty to Trump even if it thwarts his own ambitions.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Trump Is Back on the Ballot
That’s a problem for Republicans.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Getty The New Era of Political Violence Is Here
The danger is not organized civil war but individual Americans with deep resentments and delusions.
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The Atlantic Caitlin Dickerson on the Moral Catastrophe of Family Separations
Caitlin Dickerson discusses the Trump administration’s devastating family-separation policy and bureaucratic failures—and how it could happen again.
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Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg / Getty Why Trump’s Safe Was Not Safe
U.S. national security depends upon our allies’ ability to trust us with intelligence. Mar-a-Lago was no place to keep top-secret documents.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump’s Scandals Are Never Done
And they seem to always get worse.
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Giorgio Viera / AFP / Getty Trump’s Vault of Secrets
What was in the boxes, and why does it matter?
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Getty; The Atlantic Not Even the President Can Declassify Nuclear Secrets
Fan letters and snapshots are one matter, and launch codes are another—and here the details of classification might decide just how much trouble Trump is in.
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Bill Clark / Getty; NBC NewsWire / Getty; … ‘Stop the Steal’ Is a Metaphor
The scholar Theda Skocpol—renowned for her research on the Tea Party movement a decade ago—explains how American politics has evolved since then.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Liz Cheney, the Republican From the State of Reality
She isn’t really fighting to keep her seat in Congress. She’s fighting Donald Trump.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Now They’re Calling for Violence
Trump loyalists have reacted to the search of the ex-president’s Mar-a-Lago residence with unhinged fury.
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Bloomberg / Getty Trump Will Release the Warrant
When it’s good for Trump, and not before
