McKay Coppins
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Michelle Boorstein / The Washington Post / Getty Why Romney Marched
The path that led the Republican senator to march in a Black Lives Matter protest began half a century ago with his father.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Christians Who Loved Trump’s Stunt
The president’s photo op outside St. John’s Church was emblematic of his appeal to the religious right.
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Chandan Khanna / AFP / Getty I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.
The surreal experience of flying during a pandemic, and the false promise of a return to normal
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Adam Maida False Prophet
Media-bashing robocalls, chloroquine Twitter trolls, briefing-room propaganda—how the president and his allies are trying to convince America he was right all along.
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Ina Jang The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun
Across the country, social distancing is morphing from a public-health to political act. The consequences could be disastrous.
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Yale Joel / The LIFE Picture Collection / ... The Stockpile of Food in My Garage
As I hunker down at home with my family amid a global pandemic, I have a new appreciation for a strange religious tradition.
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Samuel Corum / Stringer / Getty / The ... Trump’s Dangerously Effective Coronavirus Propaganda
The president’s effort to play down the pandemic is being amplified by a coalition of partisan media, digital propagandists, and White House officials.
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Illustration: Mishko; Hanna Alandi / Getty The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
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Mark Wilson / Getty / The Atlantic How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty
Comparing the president’s behavior to that of an autocrat, the Republican senator explains to The Atlantic why he’s voting to convict him.
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Justin Gellerson The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News
The Dispatch wants to sell serious, fact-based stories to the right. But do readers want them?
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Ryan Melgar The Liberation of Mitt Romney
The newly rebellious senator has become an outspoken dissident in Trump’s Republican Party, just in time for the president’s impeachment trial.
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Alex Wong / Getty When a Vice President Becomes a Threat
The fragility of Mike Pence’s partnership with Donald Trump could soon be on high display.
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Michael Sohn / AP America’s Trumpiest Ambassador
To conservatives, Richard Grenell is the poster child of a Trumpian foreign policy. To critics, he is a shallow ideologue.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Impeachment Will Take Trump to a New Frontier of Haterdom
Victimhood is at the core of the president’s identity—and it’s likely to shape his approach to the coming battle.
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Ben Fearnley The Heir
Ivanka was always Trump’s favorite. But Don Jr. is emerging as his natural successor.
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New York State Sex Offender Registry / AP Why Conspiracy Theorists Will Never Believe the ‘Official’ Epstein Story
Trust in gatekeepers—from media to government—has eroded to the point of making an “official account” almost obsolete.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters How the Epstein Case Explains the Rise of Conspiracy Theorists
Nightmarish allegations against the well-connected financier show why so many Americans let their imagination run wild when it comes to elite corruption.
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Mike Segar / Randall Hill / Kamil Krzaczynski ... Actually, Conversations Are Bad
Listen closely and you’ll hear many 2020 candidates offer the same dodge to different issues.
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Pavel Golovkin / Reuters / Thanh Do / ... Trump’s Russia Ambassador Wants to Come Home
Jon Huntsman is expected to return to the U.S. by the end of the year, and is seriously considering a run for governor of Utah.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Two Universes, One Report
The release of Robert Mueller’s findings was a choose-your-own-adventure moment for political punditry.
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