John Hendrickson
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Illustration by The Atlantic; Wally McNamee / Corbis … How Wrestling Explains America
Did Trump and his buddy Vince McMahon turn politics upside down, or was it already that way?
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Travis P. Ball / Getty for SXSW Nancy Pelosi: ‘Follow the Money’
The former speaker of the House discussed Silicon Valley Bank, January 6 revisionist history, and more in an interview focused on money and greed.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Martyr at CPAC
Donald Trump came to the conservative conference to air some grievances.
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Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty The Next Big Political Scandal Could Be Faked
Imagine a convincing AI “Joe Biden” talking about ballot harvesting, or hacked voting machines.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Six Memoirs That Go Beyond Memories
Sometimes, a writer can use more than their own recollections to tell a personal story.
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The Atlantic The Truth About Aliens Is Still Out There
What were those three “aerial objects” downed following the Chinese spy balloon?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Why I Dread Saying My Own Name
Nearly every decision in my life has been shaped by my stutter.
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A Disability Film Unlike Any Other
I Didn’t See You There depicts, with a hypnotic realism, life from the perspective of a disabled person.
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Dustin Franz / Bloomberg / Getty How Abortion Defined the 2022 Midterms
Where Dr. Oz stumbled, John Fetterman only had to say Roe v. Wade. And so it went across the nation.
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Mark Makela / Getty; Bastiaan Slabbers / NurPhoto … The Fetterman-Oz Debate Was a Rorschach Test
The Democratic nominee for Senate has no choice but to bet on Pennsylvania voters identifying with his health struggles instead of viewing them as disqualifying.
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Matt Rourke / AP Don’t Patronize Fetterman
The Pennsylvania Democrat deserves to face the same questions—and to be given the same opportunities—as any other candidate.
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Photograph by Chase Castor for The Atlantic Does the Jason Kander Story Have a Third Act?
The once-future star of the Democratic Party is resurfacing with a memoir about mental illness. The question is whether it’s a prequel to his return to politics.
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Kholood Eid for The Atlantic How New York’s COVID War Spun Out of Control
How did it come to this?
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Spencer Platt / Getty Today Your Phone Became a Police Radio
Roughly four hours after an unusual push-alert dragnet, Frank James was captured. Did policing just change?
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Apple TV+ The Tension at the Heart of CODA
Even after two viewings, I’m still trying to answer a fundamental question: Who is this movie for?
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C-SPAN The Struggle to Overcome Mass-Shooting Cynicism
“If I end my public-service career and haven’t passed a significant federal firearms-reform bill, I’ll consider my time in public service a failure,” Senator Chris Murphy says.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Jamie Raskin Lost His Son. Then He Fled a Mob.
The day before the Capitol riot, a congressman buried his 25-year-old son, who had left a note for his family on New Year’s Eve.
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Courtesy of Kelly Fitzsimmons Death Stalks Joe Biden Still
In March, most Americans still hadn’t grasped the reality, or the lethality, of COVID-19. But Biden had already lost a friend of 30 years.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters / The Atlantic The Banality of Trump’s Hatred
The president will always denigrate anyone remotely different from himself.
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Nina Berman / NOOR / Redux The Fox News Powder Keg
On November 3, the network’s framing of the election narrative may help alleviate nationwide chaos—or sow it.
