Barton Gellman
He is the author of Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State and the New York Times best-selling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Gellman’s professional honors include three Pulitzer Prizes (as team member, individual, and team anchor), an Emmy Award for documentary filmmaking, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and two Overseas Press Club awards. Before joining The Atlantic, he spent 21 years at The Washington Post as a legal, military, diplomatic, and special-projects correspondent. He is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation.
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Getty; The Atlantic* The Impeachment of Joe Biden
And possibly Kamala Harris, and Merrick Garland, and Alejandro Mayorkas, and Antony Blinken
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty How Six States Could Overturn the 2024 Election
The Supreme Court may let state legislatures decide the presidency.
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Mark Peterson / Redux What Happened to Michael Flynn?
In military intelligence, he was renowned for his skill connecting the dots and finding terrorists. But somewhere along the way, his dot detector began spinning out of control.
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Mel D. Cole Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic America’s Second-Worst Scenario
So far, cumulative acts of civic virtue have saved the republic. But the constitutional order is still in danger.
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Illustration by Guillem Casasús / Rendering by Borja … How Trump Could Attempt a Coup
The Biden team is preparing for the worst. Here are three possible scenarios.
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Illustrations by Guillem Casasús / Renderings by Borja … The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
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Illustration: Cristiana Couceiro; Heritage Images / Getty Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.
