Anne Applebaum
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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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VASILY FEDOSENKO / Reuters The 22-Year-Old Blogger Behind Protests in Belarus
Stsiapan Sviatlou is in the business of showing his countrymen how not to be afraid.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Facts Just Aren’t Getting Through
The electorate is split into separate information bubbles. But unconventional messengers, appeals to patriotism, and even jokes can reach voters who don’t want to listen.
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Illustration by Celina Pereira; BStU; Ulrich Hässler / ... A KGB Man to the End
The origins of Putin’s worldview—and the rise of Russia’s new ruling class
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Noah Berger / AP Trump Is Putting On a Show in Portland
The president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Laura Ingraham’s Descent Into Despair
At some point, her Reaganite optimism slowly hardened into something better described as a form of apocalyptic pessimism.
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Petr David Josek / AP Poland’s Rulers Made Up a ‘Rainbow Plague’
The president and his party ginned up fear of LGBTQ people—and rode that strategy to reelection.
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The Atlantic Trump Is Turning America Into the ‘Shithole Country’ He Fears
The president’s mindless nationalism has come to this: Americans are not welcome in Europe or Mexico.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Voice of America Will Sound Like Trump
Under the president’s control, U.S.-funded broadcasters could turn into a presidential propaganda machine.
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AP / Getty / The Atlantic * Resist the Urge to Simplify the Story
As protests multiply, uncertainty abounds—and Trump is using it to frighten Americans far from any violence.
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