David French
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Gionata Emanuele Bazzoli / Getty How to Fix America’s Child-Pornography Crisis
The country could do much more to control this scourge, and it could do so without violating the First Amendment.
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Jon Elswick / AP What the Search-Warrant Affidavit Tells Us
The former president was not giving up top-secret national-security documents. DOJ had no choice but to act. Trump has only himself to blame.
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Bloomberg / Getty Trump Will Release the Warrant
When it’s good for Trump, and not before
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Al Drago-Pool / Getty The Criminal Case Against Trump Is Getting Stronger
Trump might clear the bar for incitement on January 6, and that’s far from his only legal risk.
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Brendan Hoffman / Getty The Constitution Isn’t Working
And the Supreme Court can’t fix it by itself.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty The People v. Donald Trump
The evidence for a possible criminal case against the former president is piling up.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Pro-life Movement’s Work Is Just Beginning
Now is the time for gratitude and profound humility about what comes after Roe.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty The Southern Baptist Horror
How many bad apples must we pluck before we recognize that the orchard is diseased?
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty What Alito Got Right
The Court’s job is not to determine which rights we should possess but rather which rights we do possess.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Let Coach Kennedy Pray
In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Supreme Court has the chance to ensure that teachers are not the state’s robots.
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Chris O'Meara / AP Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee
The American right has lost the plot on free speech.
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The Atlantic This Is a Uniquely Perilous Moment
Smaller-scale tactical nuclear weapons could bring the great powers into a brutal, deadly, and unprecedented conflict.
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Getty; The Atlantic Russia’s Initial Failures Don’t Mean Ukraine Will Survive
Putin’s military may seek to recover from its early mistakes with increased brutality.
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Getty; Adam Maida / The Atlantic Georgia Has a Very Strong Case Against Trump
To see the most compelling evidence of the former president’s criminality, look to the Peach State.
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John Springer Collection / Getty; The Atlantic The New Right’s Strange and Dangerous Cult of Toughness
An emerging culture idolizes a twisted version of “toughness” as the highest ideal and despises a false version of “weakness” as the lowest vice.
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Sean Krajacic / Getty Kyle Rittenhouse’s Acquittal Does Not Make Him a Hero
The verdict is not a miscarriage of justice—but an acquittal does not make a foolish man a hero.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters The Unmanning of Conservatism
In Trump’s view of masculinity, cheap shots replace bravery and hostility replaces honor.
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Cathal McNaughton / Reuters America’s Dangerous Rhetorical Games
Allocating responsibility for violent acts to any politician or pundit should be done only with the greatest of care.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Wounds Won’t Heal
The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation has left the United States deeply divided.
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Ping Zhu America Soured on My Multiracial Family
When my wife and I adopted our daughter from Ethiopia in 2010, we did so full of hope. In the years since, we’ve faced ugliness that has robbed us of our optimism—and left us fearful for the future of our country.
