Elaine Godfrey
She covers national politics.
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FBI The Strangest Ongoing Mystery of January 6
Who planted the Capitol Hill pipe bombs?
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty How Do Democrats Recover From This?
Here are five ways in which they could salvage their election chances.
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Elliot Ross for The Atlantic The Coronavirus Turned a Rural County Into a Battleground for Millionaires
A lawsuit, a super PAC, and the Texas attorney general brought national pandemic politics to small-town America.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Republican Congresswoman Taking on Lauren Boebert
Why is a South Carolina Republican policing her party’s far-right flank? Here are three possibilities.
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The Atlantic Hill Staffers Are Wearing Sneakers Now
Congress is modernizing thanks to the pandemic. But it still has a long way to go.
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The Atlantic The Pedestrian-Death Crisis Came to My Neighborhood
Nina Larson was one more pedestrian struck and killed in a city—and a country—where that happens all the time.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty If Democrats Can Lose in Virginia, They Can Lose Almost Anywhere
Led by a candidate who neither repudiated nor embraced Trump, the GOP sweeps to victory.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Kyrsten Sinema Isn’t Hitting the Panic Button
The senator from Arizona doesn’t seem rattled by progressives’ threats to primary her—and it’s not clear she should be.
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KC McGinnis for The Atlantic What We Lost When Gannett Came to Town
We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.
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Mara Truog / 13 Photo / Redux Another Truth About Remote Work
A misconception about the prevalence of working from home explains a lot about confirmation bias in America.
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Sergio Flores / Getty Is This How Democrats Break Their Midterm Curse?
Most Democrats don’t approve of Texas’s new abortion ban. But they hope it may help them gin up voter enthusiasm.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters When the Refugees Landed
Evacuees from Afghanistan filed out of the airport security checkpoint quietly, a few groups every 20 minutes: men in beige waistcoats, veiled women with curly-haired babies, toddlers clutching juice boxes.
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Courtesy of Elaine Godfrey; The Atlantic The Year of Postponed Grief
Sixteen months after my grandmother died, my family finally gathered to bury her.
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Michael M. Santiago / Getty What the Ohio Special Election Actually Means
The Democratic primary became a proxy war between progressives and the establishment. But the outcome doesn’t tell us much about the party’s future.
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Andrew Harnik / Getty Republicans Refuse to Reckon With January 6
Just as striking as the officers’ testimony today is GOP lawmakers’ refusal to engage with it.
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Lauren Tamaki How a Rising Trump Critic Lost Her Nerve
Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina hoped to be the face of a post-Trump GOP. She soon learned there is no such thing.
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Alex Merto The Democrats Are Already Losing the Next Election
Eight months after the 2020 election, Democrats don’t agree on what they’ve learned.
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Joe Raedle / Getty / The Atlantic The Democrats’ New Trump Problem
Can the party win without the former president in the White House? Virginia’s upcoming elections could provide the answer.
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Eugène Delacroix / Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Rural Pandemic Isn’t Ending
Public-health leaders in rural America are turning toward the next and more difficult stage of the nationwide vaccination campaign: persuasion.
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Returning to Normal Means Recalibrating My Brain
The pandemic’s retreat doesn’t necessarily mean life will get easier for people with OCD.
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