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Will Trump Get His Potemkin Statistics?

August 13, 2025

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How Not to Fix American Democracy

August 11, 2025

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How Many Times Can Science Funding Be Canceled?

Katherine J. Wu

August 6, 2025

An NIH medallion caught in red tape

Washington Week With The Atlantic

A Test Case for Future Funding Cuts

July 19, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Atlantic Daily

A Congress That Votes Yes and Hopes No

David A. Graham

July 18, 2025

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Trump Is Trying to Steamroll the Tennessee Valley Authority

Alexander C. Kaufman

July 15, 2025

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The Most Perverse Part of the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

July 3, 2025

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A Big, Bad, Very Ugly Bill

July 1, 2025

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What Chris Murphy Learned From the New Right

June 24, 2025

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Bill Cassidy’s Failure on Vaccines

Nicholas Florko

June 14, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Handcuffing a U.S. Senator Is a Warning

David A. Graham

June 13, 2025

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Retirement Is the New Resistance

May 12, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Congressional Republicans Have Two Bad Options

David A. Graham

May 6, 2025

Mike Johnson stands next to a podium

Pete Hegseth’s Patriotic Duty Is to Resign

April 22, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Ed Martin Has Completely Disqualified Himself

April 17, 2025

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The Roman Way to Trash a Republic

Michelle Berenfeld

April 16, 2025

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Can You Really Fight Populism With Populism?

John Hendrickson

April 14, 2025

Bernie Sanders stands on a stage at a podium and points out

A Win—And a Warning—For Trump’s Agenda

April 10, 2025

The Hollow Men

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Dr. Oz Is Now the Grown-Up in the Room

March 20, 2025

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The Trump-Tariff Advice: Eat Less

March 18, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

Is This a Crisis or Not?

David A. Graham

March 13, 2025

Chuck Schumer looks to the side during a press conference

Mitch McConnell and the President He Calls ‘Despicable’

March 7, 2025

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The Advice Elissa Slotkin Didn’t Take

March 5, 2025

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The Democrats’ Working-Class Problem Gets Its Close-Up

Michael Scherer

February 27, 2025

Workers in hard hats listen to Trump speak.

Trump’s Military Purge Has Washington Asking ‘Who’s Next?’

Shane Harris and Jonathan Lemire

February 22, 2025

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A Trump Cabinet Pick Gets a Rare GOP Grilling

February 19, 2025

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The Opposition Is Already Growing

February 14, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The Great Surrender

David A. Graham

February 13, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., smiles and shakes hands with Donald Trump after a swearing-in ceremony

The Scientific Literature Can’t Save You Now

Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky

February 13, 2025

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Who’s Running the Defense Department?

February 13, 2025

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Presidents May Not Unilaterally Dismantle Government Agencies

February 12, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The World’s Most Powerful Unelected Bureaucrat

David A. Graham

February 11, 2025

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The Doctor Who Let RFK Jr. Through

Nicholas Florko

February 4, 2025

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This Is About More Than RFK Jr.

Nicholas Florko

January 29, 2025

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‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’

January 28, 2025

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