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Philip Montgomery A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans
An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.
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The Atlantic Would You Sacrifice Your Privacy to Get Out of Quarantine?
The coronavirus has reignited the post-9/11 debate about security and civil liberties. The U.S. response to that tragedy has lessons for how to manage the trade-offs this time around.
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The Atlantic The Biggest Worry for Doctors Fighting the Pandemic
America’s medical professionals are risking their lives. But their greatest fear is that they’ll move from being part of the solution to part of the problem.
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BULENT KILIC / AFP via Getty The Syrian Sisters Who Refuse to Give Up on America
Their saga shows America’s deep malaise about the civil war in Syria and the resulting refugee crisis. Will anything change in 2020?
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Intelligence War Is Also an Election Story
With a loyalist as acting director of national intelligence, the official line on issues like Russian election meddling could bend closer to the president’s.
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Ali Hashisho / Reuters The Inconvenient Truth About ISIS
The group is bigger now than when it founded its self-styled caliphate, and America’s conflict with Iran is only making the fight against it more complicated.
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Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty Trump’s Chance to Take the High Road With Iran
Tehran’s immediate retaliation for Qassem Soleimani’s killing could be an opportunity for both sides to de-escalate. Will Trump take it?
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Press Office of Iranian Supreme Leader / Anadolu … The Soleimani Assassination Is America’s Most Consequential Strike This Century
The U.S. attack against the top Iranian general will have far greater repercussions than the killings of al-Qaeda and ISIS leaders.
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Martyn Aim / Corbis / Getty What ISIS Will Become
The group has lost its territory and its leader. But it has survived before—and can do it again.
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Alaa al-Marjani / Reuters Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Ugly Legacy
The instincts and strategy attributed to the ISIS leader illustrate why his terror group is likely to survive his death.
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Maya Alleruzzo / AP ‘The U.S. Should Have Committed to Its Promises’
A prominent Syrian-Kurdish leader, in an interview, says both America and its allies are now in a weaker position in the region after Donald Trump’s sudden military pullout.
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Huseyin Aldemir / Reuters The Deadly End of American Policy in Syria
Over the course of the long civil war, Syrians who cast their lot with America have often met with grim fates. Those who remain are suddenly scrambling to escape.
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Ghaith Abdul-Ahad / Getty The Intelligence Fallout From Trump’s Withdrawal in Syria
The chaotic withdrawal from Syria will severely weaken U.S. efforts in the country—and could also be a boost for Russia and Iran.
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Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty How the War Against ISIS Was Won, Before It Was Lost
As Donald Trump seized on fears of refugees and ISIS in his rise to the presidency, the battle to take down Mosul, the group’s crown jewel in Iraq, was just beginning. This is what those moments felt like.
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Martyn Aim / laif / Redux The Forever War Fought by America’s Allies
The U.S.-backed soldiers who battled ISIS across Syria and Iraq could be locked in the struggle for a very long time.
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Bulent Kilic / AFP / Getty Trump’s Gift to ISIS
America had the chance to help its local partners ensure ISIS’s lasting defeat. Instead it’s abandoning them.
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Jon Elswick / AP The U.S. Government Keeps Too Many Secrets
American officials classify too much information, from the trivial to the politically inconvenient. The overreliance on secrecy invites abuse.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Revenge of the Intelligence Nerds
Trump has long worried that America’s intelligence professionals would try to undermine him from the shadows. All they had to do was play by the rules.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters The Big Costs of Treating Ukraine Like Little Trumpland
Trump’s push to get Ukraine’s new president to do his political bidding threatens to undermine a key U.S. partnership in countering Russia.
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Leah Millis / Reuters The Problem With the Whistle-Blower System
As the country learned this week, authorities have too much power to decide the fate of whistle-blower claims, especially when they involve the intelligence community.
