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Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: Shutterstock. Democracy Has a Customer-Service Problem
How incompetent airlines, or hospital-billing errors, or a mix-up at the IRS can erode our trust in everything
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Getty; The Atlantic Asymmetrical Conspiracism Is Hurting Democracy
In the past decade, conspiratorial thinking has shifted from a worrying factor in Republican politics to a defining feature.
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Larry Towell / Magnum The Conventional Wisdom About War Crimes Is Wrong
Ordinary people, when seduced by violent ideologies, can be extraordinarily brutal.
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Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty The Trump Apocalypse Has Not Been Canceled
American democracy and its support for historical alliances remain under threat from within.
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Christopher Furlong / Getty What Happened to Liz Truss Can’t Happen Here
The prime minister’s downfall shows that British democracy is still working. American dysfunction is far worse.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Putin Didn’t Think He Would Fool Anyone
The sham referendum in Ukraine was for domestic consumption.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Realist’s Weapon in the Fight for Democracy
Coaxing despots into a cushy exile is sometimes the best option.
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Stephen Voss / Redux America’s Self-Obsession Is Killing Its Democracy
The U.S. still has a chance to fix itself before 2024. But when democracies start dying—as ours already has—they usually don’t recover.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Vladimir Putin Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap
Reality doesn’t conform to the theory of the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game.
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Cam McLaren / Getty Focus on Who Police Are, Not What They Do
To improve its police force, New Zealand used humor to attract a whole different kind of cop.
