David Frum
He is the author of 10 books, most recently Trumpocracy (2018) and Trumpocalypse (2020). In 2001 and 2002, David was a speechwriter for President George W. Bush. From 2014 to 2017, he chaired the prominent U.K. center-right think tank, Policy Exchange. He writes for The Atlantic on topics including politics, policy, art, literature, and history.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump’s Reckoning With the Rule of Law
His company now has criminal convictions, and his effort to seek political immunity is looking shaky.
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Mark Peterson / Redux A Ploy, Not a Principle
Republican criticism of the Mar-a-Lago dinner with a Holocaust denier will be disavowed if Trump looks to be winning the party’s 2024 nomination.
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Joshua Roberts / Redux Another Flop From GOP Productions
The coming House hearings on Hunter Biden will be a repeat dose of Whitewater delusion: a Republican circus act that won’t impress voters.
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Getty; The Atlantic Trump’s Running, and Republicans Have Only Themselves to Blame
There is no coward’s way out of the dilemma facing the GOP.
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Carlos Bernate / Redux The Lesson Republicans Refuse to Learn
Voters to GOP: We don’t like your MAGA candidates and their agenda.
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Doug Mills / New York Times / Redux Trump Lost the Midterms. DeSantis Won.
If the Florida governor ever intends to wrest control of the GOP from Trump, now is his moment.
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The Atlantic 10 Things Elon Musk Should Do
If he wants to save Twitter, not ruin it
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Getty / The Atlantic Why I Logged Off Twitter
Whatever Elon Musk does, users will be implicated in what happens to the site. That’s a responsibility we all have to take seriously.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty Yes, Elections Have Consequences
And today’s voters hold America’s entire future in their hands.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The New History Wars
Inside the strife set off by an essay from the president of the American Historical Association
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Getty Only the GOP Celebrates Political Violence
Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.
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Jordan Vonderhaar / Reuters Ron DeSantis Can’t Troll His Way Into the White House
The Florida governor’s cruel stunt will collide with the serious real-world problem of immigration.
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James Stanfield / GEO Images Collection / Art … Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art?
The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.
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Keystone-France / Getty; The Atlantic How She Did It
Elizabeth II made the U.K.’s constitution work. America could learn a thing or two.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters Biden Laid the Trap. Trump Walked Into It.
At his Pennsylvania rally, the former president gave exactly the narcissistic display his Democratic nemesis tried to provoke.
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Jim Watson / Getty The Justification for Biden’s Speech
So much of it was true.
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Nicholas Kamm / Getty; Olivier Douliery / Getty; … The Rising Cost of Republicans’ Investment in Trump
GOP voters may be angry about Biden’s student-debt bailout, but the political bargain their party leaders made is the underlying problem.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Trump Is Back on the Ballot
That’s a problem for Republicans.
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Getty; The Atlantic Stuck With Trump
He’ll compel loyalty no matter what the FBI finds. If Republicans kowtow, they might as well hand him the 2024 nomination now.
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Bloomberg / Getty Trump Just Told Us His Master Plan
If he gets in next time, he won’t be dislodged by any means.
