McKay Coppins
In 2019, he received the Aldo Beckman Award from the White House Correspondents' Association for his coverage of the Trump presidency; in 2021, he received a Wilbur Award for religion journalism. He is the author of The Wilderness, a book about the battle over the future of the Republican Party.
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Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post / Getty Republicans’ 2024 Magical Thinking
Lots of Republicans want Donald Trump to disappear from politics. Their main strategy is hope.
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Michelle Faye / FX Under the Banner of Hulu
A buzzy new true-crime series advances an old, insidious idea—that Mormons are a threat to the American project.
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Stefani Reynolds / Getty Romney Was Right About Putin
A conversation with the Republican senator about Russia’s threat to the world, the members of the GOP who praise Putin, and how this conflict ends
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Getty; The Atlantic Inside the Red-State Plot to Take Down a Top Trump Ally
Mike Lee, the former Trump critic, and current Trump acolyte, may be vulnerable in 2022. An unusual coalition of opponents in Utah is trying to unseat him.
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Dan Winters for The Atlantic A Secretive Hedge Fund Is Gutting Newsrooms
Inside Alden Global Capital
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Conservative Publishing Industry Has a Joe Biden Problem
Neither authors nor publishing houses have figured out how to turn the new president into a compelling villain.
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Illustration by Oliver Munday; images from Chip Somodevilla; … Is Brett Kavanaugh Out for Revenge?
Three years after his polarizing confirmation hearings, the Supreme Court’s 114th justice remains a mystery.
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Paul Spella / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Coming Republican Amnesia
How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened.
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The Atlantic The Bitter Reality of the Post-Trump GOP
President Trump’s departure from office may be imminent, but the future of the party he’s leaving behind is less certain than ever.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty The Resistance’s Breakup With the Media Is at Hand
The White House spent four years vilifying journalists. What comes next?
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Michael Friberg The Most American Religion
Perpetual outsiders, Mormons spent 200 years assimilating to a certain national ideal—only to find their country in an identity crisis. What will the third century of the faith look like?
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The Atlantic When the MAGA Bubble Burst
At Steve Bannon’s Election Night party, bravado reigned. But reality quickly caught up with the Trumpism diehards.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Trump Campaign’s Chaotic Closing Strategy
Its “election-security operation” has the potential to wreak havoc next week.
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Roslan Rahman / Getty Pence in the Wings
President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis in the final weeks of the 2020 election puts the vice president under a microscope.
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Alex Wong / Getty Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters
Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.
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The Atlantic The Red State That Isn’t Worried About a Mail-In Election
Utah has thoroughly embraced voting by mail with no problems. Why can’t the rest of the country follow suit?
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty / The … A Carnival of Disinformation
Republicans warmly welcomed voters into their post-truth convention.
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The Atlantic / Getty Larry Hogan Isn’t Coming to Save the Republican Party
The governor of Maryland is betting his future on a kinder, gentler post-Trump GOP. Good luck with that.
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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.
