Conor Friedersdorf
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters The Talented Victim Is Not the Point
Americans will always seek out, discuss, and be moved by art that is messy, tense, and chaotic, whether the censors of any moment like it or not.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is Trump a Jacksonian at Heart?
The right is having a vigorous foreign-policy debate.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump Can’t Handle a War of Choice
He’s too polarizing and commands too little respect from critics to lead such an effort effectively.
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic 1776 Honors America’s Diversity in a Way 1619 Does Not
Academic historians, conservatives, and Trotskyist socialists rightly reject The New York Times’ reframing of the past.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Yes, Democrats Have Been Itching to Impeach From the Start
Trump is distinguished not only by his misdeeds, but by the dearth of redeeming qualities to offset them.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Inside the Republican Case Against Impeachment
The GOP dissent is unpersuasive.
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Bazuki Muhammad / Reuters The Doves Were Right. I Was Wrong.
Americans like me ignored—or scorned—protesters who warned of an endless quagmire in Afghanistan. Next time, we should listen to the critics.
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Amr Alfiky / Reuters To Drain the Swamp, Start With Rudy Giuliani
MAGA nation should be outraged about President Trump’s personal attorney.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Why the Strongest Argument Against Impeachment Fails
A remorseless president may keep pressuring foreigners to help him win in 2020.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Does the First Amendment Hold at the Border?
Photojournalists are suing three federal border agencies.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Here’s What Should Disqualify Michael Bloomberg
New York’s stop-and-frisk policy is just one example of the former mayor’s lack of respect for civil liberties.
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Mark Makela / Reuters Look Who’s Trying to Seize Private Property
The Trump administration wants to use eminent domain to build the border wall.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Calling Impeachment a ‘Coup’ Hurts America
The Constitution matters. So does the English language.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Why the Trolls Booed at Don Jr.’s Event
The forces of hatred that Trump stoked to benefit himself politically are spiraling out of control.
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Leah Mills / Reuters The Founders Would Have Called Out Trump for Bribery
There’s no need to debate “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Bribery is enough for removal.
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Alex John Beck Unraveling Race
Thomas Chatterton Williams wants to discard traditional racial categories.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters Kevin McCarthy’s Flagrant Double Standard
The Republican House minority leader pretends to be a protector of the popular will, but his logic doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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Jon Nazca / Reuters Doubt Anyone Who’s Confident That Facebook Should Ban Political Ads
We don’t know much at all about how political ads on social media sway the public.
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Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters Bad Arguments for Limiting Speech
The First Amendment is not a problem; it is a solution to many problems.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump’s Error at the World Series
The president made a rare public appearance before a crowd he hadn’t screened—and was loudly booed.
