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Andrew Harnik / Getty Trump Is Wishcasting Victory in Iran
The president went from threatening that “a whole civilization will die” to claiming a “total and complete victory.” What does the already shaky cease-fire mean as he tries to steer his way out of the war?
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Manosphere Feels Betrayed
The Epstein files, Alex Pretti, now Iran?
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Andres Kudacki / Getty Meet the New ICE
Same as the old ICE?
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Amr Alfiky / Reuters Trump Is Kicking the Economy While It’s Down
How the war with Iran could lead to a recession
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Ethan Miller / Getty ‘If You Win One Penny, You’re in the Top 2 Percent of Bettors’
McKay Coppins on his experiment with sports gambling—and why it’s a losing game for nearly everyone
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty A War Begun on Instinct
The president is trusting his gut, not Congress.
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Matteo Minnella / Reuters After Khamenei, What Now?
Iranians want democracy. Trump wants a brief conflict. Neither seems likely.
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Bob Daemmrich / The Texas Tribune / Bloomberg … What Can the Texas Primary Tell Us About Democrats?
Our reporter Elaine Godfrey on getting kicked out of a Jasmine Crockett rally
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Nathan Howard / Getty What the Pentagon Fears in Iran
How can the military build a strategy without an end goal?
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Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis / Getty Trump’s Backlash to Black History
The efforts to whitewash history call for a new approach to memorializing Black history.
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Sebastian Reuter / Getty Iran Wants Him Arrested. He’s Going Back Anyway.
After Jafar Panahi is done promoting his Oscar-nominated film, It Was Just an Accident, he plans to return to his home country—despite the threat of a prison sentence.
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Craig Hudson / Variety / Getty The Meaning of Melania
The most interesting part of the first lady’s film is what it leaves out.
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Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg / Getty How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post
The paper of record for the nation’s capital cut a third of its staff this week. It didn’t have to be like this.
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Stephen Maturen / Getty ‘This Has Got to End’
Tim Walz on the “all-out attack on all of state government”
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Jack Califano Another Death in Minneapolis
After killing another American, federal officials again offer an explanation that appears to be directly contradicted by available evidence.
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Bjarte Rettedal / Getty The Federal Government That Was
In his first full year back in office, Donald Trump presided over the destruction of America’s civil service, purging roughly 300,000 workers.
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Octavio Jones / AFP / Getty Do ICE Officers Have ‘Immunity’?
States don’t often prosecute federal officers, but they can.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty ‘Aren’t We Supposed to Be the Good Guys Here?’
Senator Mark Kelly says that taking Greenland “would probably be the biggest mistake any president has made in the history of this country.”
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is the U.S. Running Venezuela or Not?
Trump’s post-Maduro plans are murky.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic Six Months Off the Street
An update on Evan from our three-part series No Easy Fix
