McKay Coppins
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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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Ira L. Black / Corbis via Getty The Resistance Media Weren’t Ready for This
After years of accruing retweets and Patreon donations with fevered speculation about Mueller, anti-Trump internet personalities are scrambling to figure out what’s next.
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Roc Canals / Getty / The Atlantic Naming and Shaming the Pro-Trump Elite
The Bulwark’s writers are the new outlaws of conservative media.
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Kris Connor/Getty Images Stories to Make Them Choke on Their Steak
Two of The Atlantic’s political profilers chat about their process—and when to doodle during an interview.
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Jim Young / Reuters Trump’s Speech Did Create Unity—Within the MAGA Media
Conservative outlets were upset when the president caved on his demands for a wall. But they can’t afford to stay mad when he’s on national TV owning the libs.
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Dominick Reuter / Reuters Chris Christie Says His New Book Isn’t an Act of Revenge
The former New Jersey governor discusses his hyper-confrontational style, why Trump surrounds himself with “grifters” and “felons,” and whether he’d be a better vice president than Mike Pence.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Waiting for a Shutdown to End in Disaster
Aides on Capitol Hill fear that a dramatic government failure may be the only thing to force President Trump and the Democrats back to the table.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump Cares About Only One Audience
He’s a master of reading a room—and he knows exactly how to use cultural context as a provocation.
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