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Getty / The Atlantic The 5 Trump Amendments to the Constitution
The 45th president profoundly altered our system of government.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters What Trump Has Done to America
Three ways the outgoing president’s postelection fight changed the political landscape
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Emma McIntyre / Getty / Katie Martin / … Why Not Janet?
A vice-presidential pick who could show that Joe Biden is serious about winning, and then governing
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Joe Raedle / Getty / AP / The … It’s George Wallace’s World Now
Wallace never won the presidency, but the base he mobilized has found a home in today’s Republican Party.
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Ilya Milstein Too Much Democracy Is Bad for Democracy
The major American parties have ceded unprecedented power to primary voters. It’s a radical experiment—and it’s failing.
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Tyler Comrie Twitter Needs a Pause Button
Instantaneous communication can be destructive. We need to tweak our digital platforms to make time for extra eyes, cooler heads, and second thoughts.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Gerrymandering Ruling Was Bad, but the Alternatives Were Worse
Highly partisan redistricting is a scourge, but the solutions involve political judgments that no court should make.
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Edmon de Haro Fact-Checking the President in Real Time
Even robots are trying to hold Donald Trump accountable.
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Katie Martin It’s Time to Drop the ‘LGBT’ From ‘LGBTQ’
The case for a new term that describes all sexual minorities
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Joe McKendry Adolescence and ‘the Happiness Dip’
A very short book excerpt
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Edmon de Haro Boycott the Republican Party
If conservatives want to save the GOP from itself, they need to vote mindlessly and mechanically against its nominees.
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Edmon De Haro The Conservative Case for Unions
How a new kind of labor organization could address the grievances underlying populist anger
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Jeffrey Smith Containing Trump
He may well try to govern as an authoritarian. Whether he succeeds depends less on what he does than on how civil society responds.
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Edmon de Haro What Obama Got Right
The outgoing president has resolved old problems and avoided new ones.
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Phil Toledano How American Politics Went Insane
It happened gradually—and until the U.S. figures out how to treat the problem, it will only get worse.
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Edmon de Haro Amateurs in the Oval Office
Why Americans tend more and more to want inexperienced presidential candidates
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Ji Lee Stripping J. Edgar Hoover’s Name From the FBI Building
The Confederate flag has been taken down at South Carolina’s Capitol. Why not get J. Edgar Hoover’s name off the Bureau’s headquarters?
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Edmon De Haro Be Not Afraid
When President Obama tells Americans to stop worrying, he’s accused of fecklessness. But he has a point: we have never been safer.
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All photos by Chris Buck The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis
What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age
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Johnny Selman The Great Secession
Faced with sweeping social change, conservative Christians are walling themselves off from secular society. But when religion isolates itself, both sides lose.
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