There Was One Dick Cheney All Along
The end of the former vice president’s career reflected its beginnings.
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Photo-illustration by Ben Denzer. Source: Cool Owl Maps. ‘California Is Allowed to Hit Back’
Democrats are ready to match the GOP’s gerrymandering ruthlessness. Will voters go along?
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Illustration by Mark Harris* The Man Who Rescued Faulkner
How the critic Malcolm Cowley made American literature into its own great tradition
William Karel / Gamma-Rapho / Getty Yitzhak Rabin Knew What Netanyahu Doesn’t
Thirty years after Rabin’s assassination, Israel is ignoring the lessons of the most honest statesman I’ve ever known.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic The Lonely New Vices of American Life
Booze is down and weed is up, and that’s doing something to us as a country.
Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty What’s a Scandal When Everything Is Outrageous?
Trump’s ballroom blitz is blatantly corrupt. The fact that no one seems to care shows just how low the standards of behavior have fallen in Washington.
Jon Lovette / Getty When Helicopter Parents Touch Down—At College
Hovering moms and dads are following their kids all the way to campus.
No Politics Is Local
State and city elections are now heavily intertwined with what happens in Washington.
Christian Monterrosa / Bloomberg / Getty The World Dick Cheney Built
The vice president had spent most of his career trying to lift the restraints on presidential authority. After 9/11, he did just that. (From 2020)
Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Life on Mars
Space scientists won’t say so, but the results of three brilliantly conceived experiments lead inevitably to one startling conclusion: Life, in some form, exists on Mars. (From 1977)
Associated Press The Last Three Days of Mussolini
“Il Duce slumped, first falling to his knees, then leaning sideways against the wall.” (From 1945)
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Paul Morigi / Getty the david frum show•Episode 30Would U.S. Generals Obey Illegal Trump Orders?
Tom Nichols on Trump, the military, and what happens when loyalty replaces law. Plus: the Trump administration’s “politicized stupidity” and a discussion of Eugène Ionesco’s play Rhinoceros.
LIMITED SERIESAutocracy in America
There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. how to age up•Episode 6How to Age Up on a Warming Planet
Younger generations are having a hard time imagining their future.
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A visit with Le-Ann Williams and her daughter, Destiny, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina
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