Andrew Ferguson
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Alex Brandon / AP I Know What Makes Conventions So Maddening
And it’s not the air horns and vuvuzelas.
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Bettmann / Getty The Convention Has Finally Become What It Always Was
For decades, political conventions have adapted to every indignity that progress and technology could throw at them.
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Win McNamee / Getty Trump’s Attempt at an Un-Trumpian Image
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Getty / The Atlantic Christopher Buckley on Satire in the Age of Trump
“I think Trump is fair game for ridicule. Why do I think this? Because it drives him nuts.”
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The Atlantic Leave Lincoln Out of It
The Lincoln Project partakes of the spirit of a famous Republican president—but he’s not its namesake.
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Sue Ogrocki / AP Signs That Trump Was Furious in Tulsa
Watching the president read from a prompter is like watching a man slip into a straitjacket.
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Scott Heins / Getty ‘Defund the Police’ Does Not Mean Defund the Police. Unless It Does.
Am I supposed to take it literally?
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Tom Brenner / Reuters At the End of a Hellish Week, Trump Is a Happy Man
Spending public money—he often speaks of it as his own—always lifts his spirits.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump Tries to Sink Twitter, His Oldest Enabler
The president’s two strongest instincts stand pitted against each other: his need for attention and his need to punish enemies.
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Evan Vucci / AP Did Trump Really Take Hydroxychloroquine?
The evidence that the president was lying was strong. His lips were moving, for one thing. But perhaps this time he was telling the truth.
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Getty / The Atlantic Biden’s Virtual Campaign Is a Disaster
The candidate has reached the peak of his career in the rec room of his basement, talking into a computer.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump Has a New Word Lump
The president is topping even the greatest geniuses in the world, if he does say so himself.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Unending Ability to Astonish
The most disorienting thing about the president isn’t that he lies so often but that he so often tells the truth.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / … Trump Tries to Be Normal
And yet no week of president-watching will lack for oddities.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump’s 5 O’Clock Follies
The president’s words have tremendous power, sending countless Americans to bed with nightmares of Clorox enemas.
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CM / CQ Roll Call / Getty The Unclubbable Republican
Like lots of fanatics, Tom Coburn, the former Republican senator from Oklahoma, was at bottom a moralist.
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Edmon De Haro Springtime for Introverts
The world has caught up with us at last.
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Arinze Stanley The College President Who Simply Won’t Raise Tuition
Mitch Daniels has frozen Purdue’s tuition—at less than $10,000—for seven straight years.
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Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Trump’s Beautiful Proposal for Federal Architecture
The classicists hope to address a problem that the architecture establishment does not see as a problem.
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Cecilia Carlstedt Abraham Lincoln’s Radical Moderation
What the president understood that the zealous Republican reformers in Congress didn’t
