David Frum
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Huo Jianbin/Getty China Is a Paper Dragon
U.S. policy makers should look to the future with a little more confidence and a lot more trust in trade, markets, and the superior potential of a free people.
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Chip Somodevilla / AP The Trump Policy That Biden Is Extending
In his speech on Wednesday night, the president continued his predecessor’s attacks on the idea of free trade.
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Carlos Barria / REUTERS The Rise of Ron DeSantis
The Florida governor’s sudden prominence is partly about him, partly about his critics, but mostly about his state.
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Getty / The Atlantic Republicans Are Making 4 Key Mistakes
Misperceptions and rage are blinding Republicans—and their voter-suppression measures may backfire.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Strange New Doctrine of the Republican Party
The GOP’s version of freedom puts greater priority on right-wing cultural folkways than on rights of property and ownership.
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Todd P. Cichonowicz / U.S. NAVY / Military … The Bombs That Never Went Off
The fall of the Soviet Union left behind a grim legacy of nuclear danger. After 30 years, the last weapons-grade uranium has been eliminated.
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GUILLERMO ARIAS / AFP / Getty Biden Has a Border Problem
A surge of migrants poses a challenge for the president’s policies.
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Getty / The Atlantic We Can’t Curb the Presidency Without Fixing Congress
The minoritarian skew of the House and Senate presents an obstacle to democratic reform.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Founders Were Wrong About Democracy
The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty It’ll Do
Impeachment did not prevail, but Trump still lost.
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Jabin Botsford / AFP / Getty The Trump Crew’s Incompetence Lasted to the End
The former president’s lawyers were bad—but that was all too typical.
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Brett Carlsen / Getty It’s Not Only Trump on Trial
The Senate must pass judgment on his methods—and on all who aspire to adopt his methods as their own in the political contests ahead.
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Greg Nash / Getty There Is No Defense—Only Complicity
Republican senators are shrinking before the eyes of the whole country.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Trump’s Lawyers Lost the Day
The slovenliness of Trump’s legal team threatened to deprive senators of their face-saving excuse.
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Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Impeachment Is Working—Just Not as the Framers Expected
The case against despair
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Samuel Corum / Getty The Night of the Rubber Knives
Republicans appear poised to flinch from reality, protect Trump, and betray the country.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Swamp Thing
Trump’s pardons sent an unmistakable message, capping the corruption of his tenure in office.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Conservative Cult of Victimhood
Trump was a perpetrator who thought himself a victim, and American society has indulged that same illusion among Trump supporters.
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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Getty / The Atlantic Remove Trump Tonight
Republicans must distance themselves from the president, and join their colleagues in ending his tenure.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Crosses a Bright-Red Line
The president’s nonstop abuse of power seems determined to force a reckoning.
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