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George W. Bush

The Banality of MAGA-fication

April 10, 2026

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This Is Not How Presidents Typically Communicate

Barbara A. Perry

April 6, 2026

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The Deep Risk That Republican Hawks Overlooked

March 25, 2026

A picture of Joe Kent is distorted into red and blue squares beside a globe, Trump's face, and Israel

Iran Is Trying to Defeat America in the Living Room

Karim Sadjadpour

March 23, 2026

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The Atlantic Daily

A Horrible Throwback to the Early 2000s

David A. Graham

March 11, 2026

National Security

Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?

Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire

March 6, 2026

A photograph of the Port of Kharg Island Oil Terminal near the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf

Trump Opens the Pandora’s Box of Assassination

March 3, 2026

Hubris Without Idealism

March 2, 2026

Photo-illustration with images of Donald Trump, George W. Bush, and George H. W. Bush against an abstract backdrop resembling an American flag.

Countdown to an Arms Race

February 3, 2026

Collage with photograph of negotiators with the U.S. and U.S.S.R. flags behind them and a black-and-white world map

Josh Shapiro Takes a Gamble on His Faith

January 27, 2026

Josh Shapiro, with an out-of-focus crowd behind him

Iraq Was Bad. This Is Absurd.

January 8, 2026

La Guaira, Venezuela, Jan 4

National Security

Trump Threatens Venezuela’s New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro’s

Michael Scherer

January 4, 2026

An image of Delcy Rodríguez, the new interim president of Venezuela, overlayed on a black-and-white image of Trump

Why Did We Ever Watch To Catch a Predator?

December 24, 2025

Blurry image of a man with his hands ziptied behind his back

A Nakedly Imperialistic President

December 19, 2025

An illustration of a giant hand reaching for a barrel of oil.

Is MAGA Becoming Pro-War?

Conor Friedersdorf

December 5, 2025

trump speaking to military

The Old Guard Is Not Gone Yet

November 21, 2025

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The Left’s New Moralism Will Backfire

Thomas Chatterton Williams

November 13, 2025

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The Trumpian Fantasy of WhiteHouse.gov

Kaitlyn Tiffany

October 9, 2025

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Medicaid Cuts Will Be a Disaster for ERs

Sophia Spadafore

July 22, 2025

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How the West Can Ensure Iran Never Gets the Bomb

July 9, 2025

A color photo of Iranian flags flying above a bomb-damaged building.

What Iran Knows About Trump

June 21, 2025

Trump and Khamenei face off over Iran

The Force That Holds Trump’s Coalition Together

April 22, 2025

Closeup of Donald Trump speaking

Musk Comes for the ‘Third Rail of American Politics’

March 21, 2025

Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage

February 7, 2025

A desktop computer with the continental U.S. behind jail bars on its screen

What Trump’s Finger-Pointing Reveals

February 3, 2025

Donald Trump points at a press conference, adjacent to a photo of the Potomac River swarmed by emergency assistance

‘This Is Where You End Up When You Do Your Own Research’

John Hendrickson

September 30, 2024

Supporters of former U.S. president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and of candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. gather near the entrance to the Ronald Reagan Library, in Simi Valley, California, on September 27, 2023.

I Wrote George W. Bush’s Cheat Sheets. Here’s What I Learned.

February 27, 2024

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The Letters That Outgoing Presidents Wrote to Their Successors

November 14, 2020

What George W. Bush Plans to Do About Trump

Edward-Isaac Dovere

October 16, 2020

George W. Bush with his mouth blurred out

2020 Time Capsule #17: ‘Empathy and Simple Kindness’

May 4, 2020

The Democratic Party Wasn’t Ripe for a Takeover

March 4, 2020

Joe Biden and supporters

Troops Is an Unethical Euphemism

January 15, 2020