McKay Coppins
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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.
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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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