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Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night

Alexandra Petri

February 14, 2026

Trump in shadow holding an umbrella

This Is What Presidential Panic Looks Like

December 17, 2025

Donald Trump delivers a live address from the White House.

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The Enfeebling of the President

David A. Graham

December 9, 2025

Trump asleep at meeting

Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump Under Pressure

November 22, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Trump’s Self-Damning Response to a Legitimate Question

November 19, 2025

Photograph of Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office

Donald Trump Is a Lamer Duck Than Ever

November 12, 2025

Illustration of 4 overlapping images of Donald Trump's face, descending in size from left to right and sinking under a red line at the bottom

National Security

Zelensky Wasn’t Going to Repeat His Oval Office Disaster

Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire

August 18, 2025

A photo with a row of world leaders, including Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky

Flattery, Firmness, and Flourishes

Ashley Parker and Isaac Stanley-Becker

July 14, 2025

Photo of President Donald Trump shaking hands with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

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The One Thing That Drives Trump

David A. Graham

April 28, 2025

Empty Oval Office with portraits hanging on the walls

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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

Trump Is Willing to Take the Pain

Jonathan Lemire

April 7, 2025

Photo-illustration of Donald Trump on a green background with a graph showing a plunging stock market

Another Upside-Down Day of Trump Diplomacy

Jonathan Lemire

March 13, 2025

President Donald Trump meets in the Oval Office with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

Trump’s Own Declaration of Independence

Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer

March 6, 2025

A lithograph print showing Independence Hall, Washington, and Jefferson

Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Fallout From Trump and Zelensky’s Meeting

March 1, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

It Was an Ambush

February 28, 2025

Photo of Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office

The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat

February 13, 2025

An illustration showing a topographical map of a small United States floating in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.

Trump Needs Help

November 2, 2024

A color photograph of a microphone on a podium, with a black background and a blurred Trump-Vance sign seen in the distance.

This Is Not the End of America

November 1, 2024

the sun setting or rising on the Capitol

5 Questions for Undecided Voters

Conor Friedersdorf

October 28, 2020

An illustration of a polling booth.

2020 Time Capsule #1: Four Ways Trump’s Oval Office Address Failed

March 12, 2020