Adam Serwer
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Illustration by Danielle Del Plato The Authoritarian Instincts of Police Unions
They condition their members to see themselves as soldiers at war with the public they are meant to serve, and above the laws they are meant to enforce.
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Samuel Corum / Getty / The Atlantic Joe Manchin Can’t Have It Both Ways
If the right to vote is fundamental, then it cannot be subject to veto by partisans who benefit from disenfranchisement.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty The Capitol Rioters Won
Although some Republican leaders deplored their violence, most have come to support the rioters’ claim that Trump’s defeat meant the election was inherently illegitimate.
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Raquel Zaldivar / Chicago Tribune / Getty / … Why Conservatives Want to Cancel the 1619 Project
Objections to the appointment of Nikole Hannah-Jones to an academic chair are the latest instance of conservatives using the state to suppress ideas they consider dangerous.
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Caroline Brehman / CQ-Roll Call, Inc /Getty Liz Cheney Has Only Herself to Blame
The representative from Wyoming is taking a stand against an authoritarian streak in the Republican Party that she helped cultivate.
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Drew Angerer / Getty There Will Be More Derek Chauvins
Powerful political actors are committed to ensuring that the system of American policing remains unchanged.
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Chip Somodevilla / Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / … ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Is What You Say When ‘Whites Only’ Is Too Inclusive
A new message proves too toxic for the Republican Party.
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Alex Wong / Getty Restoring the ‘Soul of the Nation’ Means Taking in Refugees
Biden must reverse Trump’s efforts to ratify a racial and sectarian conception of American citizenship.
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Caroline Brehman / Getty The Republican Party Finds a New Group to Demonize
The recent wave of anti-trans legislation follows a decades-long pattern of the GOP targeting those they think lack the numbers or votes to properly fight back.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic ‘Woke Capital’ Doesn’t Exist
Republicans have no plan or intention to curb corporate power; they simply want to use it for their own purposes.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Real Border Crisis
America has tried to solve its immigration problem for decades through brute force. It doesn’t work.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Biden Chooses Prosperity Over Vengeance
The future of American democracy depends on the president’s ability to show that even when the Republican Party loses, Americans who vote Republican do not.
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Tamir Kalifa / The New York Times / … Texas Pays the Price of the Culture War
Instead of focusing on governance, Republican politicians in the Lone Star State spent their time inflaming grievances.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Biden Will Lie to You
All presidents do.
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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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