Elaine Godfrey
She covers national politics.
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Bill Clark / Getty; NBC NewsWire / Getty; … ‘Stop the Steal’ Is a Metaphor
The scholar Theda Skocpol—renowned for her research on the Tea Party movement a decade ago—explains how American politics has evolved since then.
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Al Drago-Pool / Getty The Deepening Mystery of Kyrsten Sinema
The Arizona senator effectively leverages her power, but her ends are unclear.
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Ross D. Franklin / AP; Carlos Barria / … The Radical Fringe That Just Went Mainstream in Arizona
The Republican primary has given us the most antidemocratic slate of candidates in America, but can Democratic normies stop them in November?
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Brandon Bell / Getty The Right’s Rising Authoritarian Ally
In Dallas, Viktor Orbán endorses “the culture war.”
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty John Fetterman Is Very Online. That’s Not Why He’s Ahead.
If he debates Dr. Mehmet Oz in the fall, it will be worth watching.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty Democrats in … Array?
Joe Manchin’s support for a new climate bill has turned the conventional wisdom about his party on its head.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Trump Meets His New Brain Trust
Allies of the former president are planning for his possible return to office.
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Matt York / AP Mike Pence Is Trying to Send a Message
The former vice president is doing political damage control for his party. It seems like too little, too late.
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Mary Ann McDonald / Getty America’s Most Misunderstood Marsupial
The opossum might be snarly and a little bit scraggly, but she deserves our admiration.
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Rachel Mummey / Reuters The Bannon Strategy
Fringe candidates promising to stop the steal, like Mark Finchem in Arizona, might just have their year.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty America Is About to See Just How Pro-life Republicans Actually Are
After the fall of Roe, some abortion opponents think it’s time to focus on expanding America’s social safety net. Will the rest of their movement join them?
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Meg Kinnard / AP The Triumph of a Sometimes-Trump Republican
South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace’s careful tightrope walk helped her win her primary, but it wasn’t the whole story.
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The Atlantic; Redux ‘I’m, Like, This Close to Snapping’
Four years after the first March for Our Lives, X González’s hope for gun control has given way to deep frustration.
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Nick Rohlman; The Atlantic Are Iowa’s Democratic Days Gone for Good?
Presidents, senators, and first ladies doted on the Simpson children. Now they’re struggling to face their state’s post-Trump reality.
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Benjamin Rasmussen The Club That No One Wants to Join
After Columbine, a group of principals formed a support network for school leaders who experience mass shootings. Every year, they have more work to do.
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Photograph by Ethan Aaro Jones for The Atlantic Sharon McMahon Has No Use for Rage-Baiting
A Minnesota-based Instagram influencer is bringing Americans out of their echo chambers. How?
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John Moore / Getty; The Atlantic What It Feels Like to Lose Your Child in a Mass Shooting
Nicole Hockley describes her son’s death in the Sandy Hook shooting, and the long grieving process that the parents of 19 children in Uvalde now face.
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Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call / Getty Brad Raffensperger Gets His Revenge
Brian Kemp beat a Trump-endorsed candidate last night in the state’s primary. Another Republican incumbent’s win was more surprising.
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Brittany Greeson / The New York Times / … The Election Denier Who Could Run Michigan’s Elections
Kristina Karamo was an unknown poll worker who claimed the 2020 election was fraudulent. Now she’s the Republican candidate for secretary of state.
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Samuel Corum / Bloomberg / Getty What’s the Point of Going to Brett Kavanaugh’s House?
Demonstrators have largely given up on changing the Supreme Court justices’ minds. But they’re still showing up.
