Donald Trump Dreams of More Executions
The president and the Republican Party are bringing capital punishment back to the forefront of American criminal justice.
Elizabeth Bruenig
Elizabeth Bruenig is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously an opinion writer for The New York Times and The Washington Post, where she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing. She has also been a staff writer at The New Republic and a contributor to the Left, Right & Center radio show. Elizabeth holds a master of philosophy in Christian theology from the University of Cambridge. At The Atlantic, she writes about theology and politics.
Latest
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Michael Macor / The San Francisco Chronicle / Getty. Tortured to Death in Alabama
The state killed Anthony Boyd last night, and the process was anything but humane.
Michael Palmer / Zuma Press / Alamy Can a Murderer Earn Redemption?
In a new book, John J. Lennon presses two cases: that his is a work of legitimate journalism, and that this makes him something more than a killer.
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic When Child Death Was Everywhere
RFK Jr.’s health policies stem from the idea that the past holds the secret to health and happiness.
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic* ‘I Need This to Be a Homicide’
Prosecutors who want to look tough on crime may be tempted to treat the death penalty as a political tool.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Iryna Pasichnyk / Getty Don’t Degrade Church With Politics
Church intervention in electoral races is an efficient polarization machine.
Millennium Images / Gallery Stock An Inhospitable Land
When the earth drinks in the last of the floodwaters, the places that remain will be different than they were before—turned sacred by overwhelming loss.
Brandon Bell / Getty The Conservative Attack on Empathy
Sometimes emotions are the voice of one’s conscience, and shouldn’t be ignored.
Illustration by The Atlantic Whose Choice? Whose Life?
The Adriana Smith case is not exactly about abortion.
Illustration by Vartika Sharma. Source: Connect Images / Getty. Inside America’s Death Chambers
What years of witnessing executions taught me about sin, mercy, and the possibility of redemption
Art by Peter Mendelsund
