Adam Serwer
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Melina Mara / The Washington Post / Getty Trump Has Left Congress No Choice
The Capitol riot was a tragic farce, but the type of political violence it represents poses an existential threat to democracy.
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Getty / The Atlantic An Incompetent Authoritarian Is Still a Catastrophe
Trump leaves behind a wounded nation, and it will take time to heal.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Capitol Rioters Weren’t ‘Low Class’
The business owners, real-estate brokers, and service members who rioted acted not out of economic desperation, but out of their belief in their inviolable right to rule.
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The Atlantic The Capitol Riot Was an Attack on Multiracial Democracy
True democracy in America is a young, fragile experiment that must be defended if it is to endure.
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David Goldman / AP If You Didn’t Vote for Trump, Your Vote Is Fraudulent
The president’s supporters believe that the votes of rival constituencies should not count—even though they understand, on some level, that they do.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Crisis of American Democracy Is Not Over
To succeed, the president-elect will have to do more than address the pandemic and revive the American economy.
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Go Nakamura / Reuters How Texas Turned Purple
Whatever happens Tuesday, Democrats have put the Lone Star State in play.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Rig Elections
Adding more justices to the bench might be the only way to stop them.
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Mark Reinstein / Corbis / Getty The Most Illuminating Moment of the Debate
Donald Trump sees everything—even his own children—as a reflection of himself.
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Merrick Morton / HBO The Dark Truth About Perry Mason
The HBO remake offers a grim depiction of Los Angeles—but it hardly keeps pace with the reality of police abuses in the era.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Donald Is No Dove
The president’s criticism of military contractors is belied by his commitment to fattening their pockets.
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Illustration by Arsh Raziuddin; photographs by Alex Lau; ... The New Reconstruction
The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy.
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Getty / The Atlantic John Lewis Was an American Founder
Without activists like Lewis and C. T. Vivian, America would remain a white republic, not a nation for all its citizens.
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Mark Wilson/Getty The Roberts Court Completes Trump’s Cover-Up
The Supreme Court handed a victory to the president while cloaking its reasoning in majestic language about the rule of law.
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Veronica G. Cardenas / Reuters Julián Castro: ‘This Is the Time to Make Change’
The former mayor of San Antonio discusses police reform, America’s housing crisis, and whether a run for statewide office in Texas is in his future.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Trump Is Struggling to Run Against a White Guy
The president is having a difficult time deploying his traditional culture-war playbook against Biden.
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Leah Millis / Getty Roberts Wanted Minimal Competence, but Trump Couldn’t Deliver
The chief justice expects the federal government to adhere to basic standards of honesty and fidelity to the public interest.
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Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty; Kevin Sanon ‘Protest Is the Highest Form of Patriotism’
A conversation with Lonnie Bunch, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, about the long tradition of black protest
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DOUG MILLS / THE NEW YORK TIMES / ... It Didn’t Have to Be Like This
The desperation of American workers in the aftermath of the coronavirus was the product of a series of policy decisions and missed opportunities.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Bad Apples in Buffalo
Fifty-seven officers were willing to take a stand to defend misconduct rather than oppose it.
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