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DOGE’s Reign of Ineptitude

February 19, 2025

Elon Musk driving a big yellow construction bulldozer

Trump Hands the World to China

Michael Schuman

February 19, 2025

Collage of Xi Jinping, the Chinese and American flags, and an old world map

Incompetence Leavened With Malignity

February 19, 2025

Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, and Michael Waltz

New York Belongs to Trump Now

Xochitl Gonzalez

February 19, 2025

A black-and-white photo of Eric Adams being questioned by the press.

Trump Could Start a New Pipeline Fight

February 19, 2025

an oil derrick atop a pile of money

The Party of Reagan Is Selling Out Ukraine

Jonathan Lemire

February 19, 2025

Photo of Donald Trump in front of a painting of Ronald Reagan.

Who Is Running the United States, Musk or Trump?

February 18, 2025

In a black-and-white collage, Donald Trump sits next to Elon Musk.

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DOGE’s Fuzzy Math

February 18, 2025

Elon Musk looks down while speaking from the Oval Office

The New Globalism

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

February 18, 2025

An American flag behind barbed wire fence

January 6 Still Happened

February 18, 2025

Black-and-white photo of the United States Capitol on January 6, with demonstrators blocked out in a white-and-gray-checkered pattern

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

February 18, 2025

Young man sitting in the back of a pickup truck, checking his phone, with a Trump campaign sign and the American flag behind him

How the Woke Right Replaced the Woke Left

Thomas Chatterton Williams

February 17, 2025

two parrots with their conversation blurred out

The Coming Democratic Baby Bust

Kristen V. Brown

February 17, 2025

The Death of Government Expertise

February 17, 2025

Photo of Elon Musk shrugging his shoulders with an orange tint

How Progressives Broke the Government

Marc J. Dunkelman

February 16, 2025

Intertwined fluted columns

Trump’s Loyalties

February 15, 2025

Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic

Government Workers Cannot Be Fired for Their Political Views

John Langford and Erica Newland

February 15, 2025

Illustration of a man in a suit holding a cardboard box with binders, folders, and the Bill of Rights

The ‘Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick

February 15, 2025

Photo of Donald Trump looking at a map of the “Gulf of America”

A Blatant Violation of Legal Ethics

Barbara McQuade

February 14, 2025

Collage of Danielle Sassoon and Eric Adams

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The Real Problem With DOGE’s AI Plans

February 14, 2025

Robot hands holding binders

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The Public Humiliation of Eric Adams

David A. Graham

February 14, 2025

Tom Homan looks at Eric Adams while on "Fox & Friends."

The Erasing of American Science

Katherine J. Wu

February 14, 2025

A doctor points to an X-ray as a man in a suit looks on, all framed by a cut-out of binocular-shaped lenses.

The Opposition Is Already Growing

February 14, 2025

Raised fists, signs, and megaphones in between pillars of a courthouse

Why Isn’t Congress Doing Anything?

February 14, 2025

A photo-illustration showing black-and-white cut-out photos of Elon Musk and an elephant on a bright-red background.

Trump Is Remaking the World in His Image

February 14, 2025

A color photo-illustration of Donald Trump in a red MAGA cap swinging a golf club at a soccer-ball-size Earth

How to Prevent Trump From Defying the Courts

Andrew O'Donohue

February 14, 2025

A gavel hitting the wooden seal of the United States

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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

Listen Closely to What Hegseth Is Saying

February 13, 2025

Photo of a woman walking down a road in Ukraine with debris and destroyed buildings around her.

There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing

February 13, 2025

Illustration of people ripping the Statue of Liberty from the ground by pulling at her neck with a rope.

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.

Trumpflation

February 13, 2025

A cluster of yellow and orange balloons configured to look like Donald Trump, with one black balloon floating among them.

What Will Happen If the Trump Administration Defies a Court Order?

February 13, 2025

A red MAGA cap’s brim hovering over a courthouse

Who’s Running the Defense Department?

February 13, 2025

Illustration of a Department of Defense medal attached to a dog collar on a leash

The Day the Ukraine War Ended

Jonathan Lemire

February 12, 2025

Photo of a cemetery with crosses and Ukrainian flags visible against a dark sky

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The Trump Supporters Who Didn’t Take Him at His Word

David A. Graham

February 12, 2025

Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office

It’s a Model of Government Efficiency, but DOGE Wants It Gone

February 12, 2025

Illustration of Elon Musk looking through a shattered shield