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What Bari Weiss Got Right

December 23, 2025

The CBS Broadcast Center

Bari Weiss’s Audience of One

December 22, 2025

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What the Deported Venezuelans Went Through in El Salvador

Conor Friedersdorf

November 23, 2025

CECOT prisoners

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights

August 13, 2025

Photograph of four handcuffed prisoners in El Salvador being watched from behind by a masked prison guard

No One Was Supposed to Leave Alive

Gisela Salim-Peyer

July 23, 2025

Picture of Keider Alexander Flores inside his home in Caracas, Venezuela

A New History of the Western Hemisphere

Carolina A. Miranda

June 30, 2025

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia Was Never Coming Back. Then He Did.

June 6, 2025

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks at a news conference.

Donald Trump’s Cruel and Unusual Innovations

Conor Friedersdorf

May 3, 2025

A video from El Salvador’s CECOT prison playing on a screen at a Trump rally

The Atlantic Daily

Schrödinger’s Detainees

David A. Graham

April 30, 2025

Colorful protest signs about the people deported to El Salvador

How the Trump Administration Flipped on Kilmar Abrego Garcia

April 25, 2025

An illustration of Senator Chris Van Hollen speaking to the press next to the Supreme Court next to Kilmar Abrego Garcia next to Trump shaking hands with Bukele. Overlayed are the colors purple and yellow and words from the Supreme Court's ruling.

The Supreme Court’s ‘Selective Proceduralism’ Would Suffocate the Constitution

April 24, 2025

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Trump Is Vulnerable on Immigration

April 23, 2025

A photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen speaking to reporters in San Salvador

The Supreme Court Has No Army

Thomas P. Schmidt

April 23, 2025

A red-tinted United States constitution with the shadow of Donald Trump's bust over it

What Recourse Does the Supreme Court Actually Have?

April 17, 2025

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A Loophole That Would Swallow the Constitution

April 17, 2025

The Statue of Liberty with its flame extinguished

America’s Mad King

April 17, 2025

Donald Trump in silhouette wearing his signature like a crown

What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

April 15, 2025

A black-and-white photo of President Donald Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele meeting in the oval office.

The Atlantic Daily

Trump Dares the Supreme Court to Do Something

David A. Graham

April 14, 2025

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador shakes hands with Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

April 14, 2025

Photo of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office

El Salvador’s Exceptional Prison State

Gisela Salim-Peyer

April 10, 2025

What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?

April 9, 2025

Person waving upside-down flag in front of Supreme Court building

‘A Path of Perfect Lawlessness’

April 7, 2025

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Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag

April 2, 2025

Picture of prisoners in Salvadorean jail

Trump Is Deporting ‘Them’ in Ways That Threaten Us

Conor Friedersdorf

March 27, 2025

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Stephen Miller Has a Plan

Nick Miroff and Jonathan Lemire

March 19, 2025

A black-and-white photo of Stephen Miller, with his hand in the foreground

The ‘Right Way’ to Immigrate Just Went Wrong

Gisela Salim-Peyer

January 31, 2025

Migrants from Venezuela, who had their asylum appointments with U.S. officials cancelled hours after President Donald Trump's inauguration, look out at the closed border with the U.S. from a government-run shelter in Juarez, Mexico, on January 21.

‘Break All the Rules You Can’: A Conversation With Poet Christopher Soto

October 31, 2022

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El Salvador Mocks the Victims of El Mozote

May 23, 2019

The urns of six victims of the El Mozote massacre are seen during a wake in San Salvador, El Salvador, on December 7, 2018.