David Frum
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / GETTY The Coronavirus Is Demonstrating the Value of Globalization
We are experiencing a painful introduction to anti-globalism and its consequences.
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Alex Wong / Getty No Empathy, Only Anger
Those seeking to support Trump’s party line need an excuse for their months of denial and deception—and they’ve found it.
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Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock / The Atlantic What If the President Gets Sick?
The public deserves to know right away whether the chief executive is infected with the coronavirus. He should have gotten tested sooner.
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Pool / Reuters The Worst Outcome
If somebody other than Donald Trump were in the White House, the coronavirus crisis would not be unfolding this way.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Best Thing Bernie Sanders Can Do Is Drop Out
The Vermont senator wakes up on this morning to a clear choice.
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Fabrice Coffrini / AFP via Getty Trump Is Counting on the Supreme Court to Save Him
The president’s remarkable lawsuit against his own accountants and bankers can succeed only if the conservative majority intervenes on his behalf.
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Mike Segar / Reuters How Democrats Can Solve Their Bernie Sanders Problem
The first step? Recognizing that it’s not one issue, but three.
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Price of a Sanders Nomination
Nancy Pelosi’s majority is new, fragile, and dependent on voters who are more conservative than the median Democrat.
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Leah Mills / Reuters With Liberty and Justice for Some
Attorney General Bill Barr seems willing to deploy the law as a weapon, cracking down on crimes by the poor and the foreign-born while going easy on the crimes of the president’s associates.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Images Trump Is Defiling His Office
The president deliberately turned the State of the Union into a partisan spectacle—so why are pundits focused on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s response?
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Next Trump Crisis Is Already Here
Ukraine is by no means the only dirty secret being covered up.
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Ivan Alvarado / Reuters Bernie Can’t Win
But unless other Democrats take a page from his book—stressing the practical over the theoretical, the universal over the particular—they won’t prevail either.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Tulsi Gabbard Sues for Attention
A legal filing from the presidential candidate reads more like a stump speech.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Broke It. Now He Owns It.
The president withdrew from a flawed deal with Iran, but had no realistic alternative. With that choice comes responsibility for what ensued.
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Wana News Agency / Reuters We’re Just Discovering the Price of Killing Soleimani
Grieving families around the world are already paying it.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Americans Aren’t Rallying to Trump
A president who writes off half the country can’t expect to garner support from a crisis of his own making.
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Leah Millis / Reuters A Gangster in the White House
The president tweeted the name of the presumed whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal—demonstrating that he is unrepentant and determined to break the law again.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters Trump’s Trade War Was Futile
The president’s clash with Beijing accomplished little—and bodes ill for the growing conservative movement to confront the world’s second superpower.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump’s Supporters Are Displaying the Will to Win. Democrats Are Not.
The House Judiciary Committee needs a clearer plan for mobilizing public opinion in support of impeachment.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters All the President’s Crooks
Again and again, Trump’s core supporters have turned out to be criminals.
