Peter Nicholas
He is a past co-winner of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. He was previously a national political reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and he has also worked at the Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Biden’s Foreign Policy Starts at Home
For the administration, strengthening the middle class is essential to national security.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Biden Isn’t Talking for a Reason
Yes, he wants to avoid making a gaffe, but he also doesn’t want to be an in-your-face president.
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Marlin Munoz / EyeEm / Getty Why an Infrastructure Deal Everyone Wants May Fail
The need exists, but the path toward a bill is far from obvious.
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Stefani Reynolds / Getty Is Biden’s Outreach to Republicans Real?
Unless Senate Democrats get rid of the filibuster, the president will need GOP support.
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Patrick Semansky / AP The Lessons Biden and the Democrats Learned From the First Impeachment
Trump’s trial threatened to derail the administration’s agenda. But as the proceedings wind down, the new president may be coming out ahead.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty The Hole Where Donald Trump Was
How are Trump watchers dealing with a Trumpless reality? Pretty well.
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Getty / The Atlantic How Anthony Fauci Survived Donald Trump
The new White House chief medical adviser explains what it was really like to work for an administration that tried constantly to undermine him.
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Anna Moneymaker / New York Times / Redux What I Saw at the White House on Trump’s Last Day
The handover of power was a solemn affair. There was no mistaking the new administration for the old one.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Mike Pence Has Nowhere to Go
The vice president has no obvious place in GOP electoral politics.
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Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc / Getty Trump Rallies Were a Preview of the Capitol Attack
Those following the president’s events around the country for the past four years were not surprised by the mob violence that unfolded in Washington.
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Andrew Harnik / AP It’s Over
The president of the United States is out of options to fulfill his authoritarian dreams.
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Tom Brenner / The New York Times / … Was It Worth It?
John Kelly, John Bolton, and other ex–Trump staffers all had the same answer when I asked them to reflect on their past work.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty The Republican Plan for the Next Four Years Isn’t Normal
The GOP may function primarily as a promotional tool for Trump—to the detriment of its future.
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Ralph Freso / Getty The 3 Norms Trump Could Still Break
He can’t and won’t overturn the election result, but he can cause plenty more havoc on his way out.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Just How Badly Does Trump Want Revenge?
Angry about his loss, the president can make life difficult for the officials he believes have crossed him.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty What to Expect Next From Donald Trump
“There is nothing about him that goes gently into the night.”
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Anna Moneymaker / The New York Times / … How Trump Could Shock the World Again
The president’s campaign is behind in polls and fundraising, but could still pull out a victory.
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Rohan Hande How ‘America First’ Became America Alone
In his desperation to restore and showcase American strength, Donald Trump has made the country weaker.
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Getty / The Atlantic I Found a Clinton-Trump Voter
My hunt took me to an unlikely place: Center City, Philadelphia.
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Rohan Hande The World Order That Donald Trump Revealed
When it comes to foreign policy, the president’s most important characteristic is not amorality or a lack of curiosity; it is naïveté.
