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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Mark Wilson / Getty Trump Is Scared
People who have speculated that Trump’s COVID-19 treatment altered his judgment misunderstand the president.
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Getty / Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic What Donald Trump Doesn’t Want to Hear
White House aides cater to the president’s emotional needs, at the expense of the country’s interests and his own health.
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Win McNamee / Getty What I Saw at the White House
Hours before President Trump left for Walter Reed, maskless staffers roamed the grounds. And no one asked me if I was sick.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Trump’s Ex–National Security Adviser on His Failure to Condemn White Supremacy
It “gives space to these groups that foment hatred and intolerance,” H. R. McMaster says.
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Win McNamee / Getty Trump Takes Away a Lifeline for Swing-State Senators
By moving forward with the Supreme Court confirmation, the president is giving lawmakers little space to carve out an independent identity that could help them win reelection.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty The Warning Signs of a Combustible Presidential Transition
This summer may provide a grim preview of what the post-election period will be like.
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TriggerPhoto / Getty / NIAID / The Atlantic White House, Petri Dish
What I saw inside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue today is cause for alarm.
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Travis Dove / The New York Times via … This Isn’t the Convention Trump Really Needs
“If you’re an undecided voter ... it has the lineup of a festival concert that you just don’t want to go to, because there’s not a single band you want to see.”
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Diane Macdonald / Getty The Last Convention
The quadrennial gatherings have shaped the nation’s history. What happens if they disappear?
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The Atlantic How to Stay One Step Ahead of Donald Trump
Saudi leaders have figured out what makes the president tick like few others have.
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Getty / The Atlantic Trump After Portland
The president’s aggressive tactics against protesters have already damaged the reputation of government agencies.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Don’t Count Trump Out
Polling could be wrong. The economy could recover just enough. He could announce his own October surprise.
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Drew Angerer / Getty / Katie Martin / … Fauci: ‘Bizarre’ White House Behavior Only Hurts the President
The nation’s top public-health expert tells The Atlantic that he isn’t going anywhere, despite the Trump administration’s newest attempts to undercut him.
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Brendon Thorne / Getty Mike Pence’s Plan to Save Trump—And Himself
Their fates are wholly entwined: “You get the Trump stink on you, it’s hard to get it off.”
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Getty Trump’s Blank Vision for a Second Term
Strip out the hyperbole and insults, and not much is left in the president’s campaign messaging for undecided voters.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Donald Trump’s Other Bunker
The Tulsa rally will be a safe space for the president—physically, psychologically, and politically.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump Could Still Break Democracy’s Biggest Norm
Some of the president’s opponents fear that he’ll refuse to leave the White House if he loses the election. Here’s why.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty This Is How Trump Wants to Be Seen
Amid protests around the country, the president deployed the federal government’s firepower to try to rehabilitate his image.
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ERIC BARADAT / AFP via Getty Trump Is Terrified of Protest
Violent demonstrations across the United States bring out a particular weakness in the 45th president.
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Drew Angerer / Al Drago / Mark Wilson … Senate Republicans’ Big Trump Problem
He’s made the presidency about himself, and now the same is true for down-ballot races.
