Adam Serwer
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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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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic Trump Gave Police Permission to Be Brutal
The president didn’t cause America’s policing crisis, but he deliberately made it worse.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Warped Definition of Free Speech
The president is attempting to bring social-media platforms into his authoritarian infrastructure—or otherwise censor them.
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Birtherism of a Nation
The conspiracy theories surrounding Obama’s birthplace and religion were much more than mere lies. They were ideology.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic* The Sinister Logic of Trump’s Immigration Freeze
The White House is closing pathways to citizenship while maintaining a flow of exploitable immigrant labor.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty The Coronavirus Has Not Halted Trump’s Power Grab
Both the president and his party are committed to a long-term project of impunity from both the law and the electorate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters We Can Finally See the Real Source of Washington Gridlock
America’s political dysfunction is rooted not in ideological polarization, but in the Republican Party’s conviction that it alone should be allowed to govern.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself
The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.
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Reuters Donald Trump’s Cult of Personality Did This
The autocratic political culture that has propped up the Trump administration has left the nation entirely unprepared for an economic and public-health calamity.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Fear of a Counterrevolution
The generational divide in the Democratic primary reflects divergent experiences.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The First Days of the Trump Regime
The president has interpreted the Republican-controlled Senate’s vote to acquit as a writ of absolute power.
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Bettmann / Getty The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The ‘Russia Hoax’ Is a Hoax
A report by the Department of Justice inspector general debunks the claims that the investigation into political interference by the Kremlin was a left-wing conspiracy to depose the president.
