Anne Applebaum
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Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic A Real Place Deserves Real Rights
Statehood for Washington, D.C., is a matter of justice.
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The Atlantic Frustration Is Spreading Faster Than the Vaccine Is
America’s distribution plan is no more fair or logical than a Soviet-style queue for cabbage.
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Craig Ruttle / Redux Coexistence Is the Only Option
Millions of Americans sympathize with the Capitol insurrection. Everyone else must figure out how to live alongside them.
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Alex Wong / Getty Europeans Recognize Trumpism for What It Is
The foreign minister of tiny Luxembourg called the president a “pyromaniac,” and the criticism was too much for Mike Pompeo.
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JOSEPH PREZIOSO / AFP / Kent Nishimura / ... What Trump and His Mob Taught the World About America
The allure of democracy was the nation’s best asset abroad, but the president squandered it by inciting political violence.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump and His Heirs Dream of Endless Victory
By falsely insisting that he won, the defeated president leaves a blueprint for the GOP’s future.
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Alex Edelman / Getty Why Won’t Emily Murphy Just Do Her Job?
In delaying the transition, the General Services Administration chief is acting like an ideologue.
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The Atlantic The World Is Never Going Back to Normal
Other countries are learning to live without America. Biden can’t restore the pre-Trump status quo.
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Mark Makela / Getty Trump Won’t Accept Defeat. Ever.
His forever campaign is just getting started.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic The Answer to Extremism Isn’t More Extremism
America’s left and right are radicalizing each other, and the precedents from overseas are deeply unsettling.
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Getty / The Atlantic You’re Not Supposed to Understand the Rumors About Biden
To raise doubts about the Democratic nominee, right-wing-media smears don’t even need to make sense.
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Jim Lo Scalzo / AP The U.S. Shouldn’t Be a ‘Sleazy Offshore Principality’
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse wants to curb the influence of dark money on American politics—and for good reason.
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Lan Truong How China Outsmarted the Trump Administration
While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order.
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Anna Moneymaker / New York Times / Redux Il Donald
The president knows what Mussolini knew: Some audiences crave images that offer false reassurance and over-the-top displays of power.
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The Atlantic The Election Is in Danger. Prepare Now.
A citizen’s guide to defending democracy
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NIAID / The Atlantic Trump Is a Super-Spreader of Disinformation
The president is the single biggest reason why many Americans distrust science, the electoral system, and one another.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic For Some Trump Apologists, the Cognitive Dissonance Is Just Too Much
The need to defy reality on the president’s behalf is pushing his appointees beyond the point of reason.
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Getty / The Atlantic If You Care About the Court, Don’t Talk About It
Fixating on the open Supreme Court seat will provoke a culture war.
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Nathan Howard / Getty In Trump’s Virtual World, Real Catastrophes Do Not Compute
The disastrous West Coast fires may influence the political debate far less than images of violence amid protests in Portland, Oregon, will.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic ‘Who’s Putting These Ideas in His Head?’
The former FBI agent Peter Strzok worries that Americans will never learn the full story about Trump’s relationship with Russia.
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