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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Yet Another Week of Trump Failing to Be an Actual Authoritarian
The president attempted to respond to protests with shows of force, and revealed his weakness in the process.
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Debby Wong / Stephen Maturen / Getty / … The Law-Enforcement Abuses That Don’t Bother Trump
The president believes that those who oppose him should be punished, but that those who support him should be free to do as they please.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Worse Than a Pardon
The decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn implicates the whole justice system.
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The Atlantic / Getty ‘Obamagate’ Is Just Trump’s Latest Effort at Distraction
From the very beginning of his administration, the president has sought to deflect attention from its original sin.
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Patrick Semansky / AP What Judge Sullivan Should Do
The Justice Department has requested that he dismiss the case against Michael Flynn. Here are 13 questions the judge should ask of government counsel.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Case That Could Destroy the Balance of Powers
By accepting Trump’s argument for keeping his finances secret, the Court could strip Congress of its ability to hold this, or any, president to account.
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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic To Trump, ‘Complete and Total Exoneration’ Is Always Right Around the Corner
The president and his supporters continue to fixate on the Russia investigation, perpetually expecting redemption.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Democrats Have No Good Options
If they are successful in their cooperation with Trump, they potentially throw him an electoral lifeline. But if they fail, the country will suffer.
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Alexander Drago What’s So Hard to Understand About What Trump Has Said?
A clarifying look at the president’s response to the coronavirus, in his own words
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Drew Angerer / Getty Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump
The president doesn’t like constraints on his power, but he doesn’t exactly like using his power either.
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MANDEL NGAN / AFP / GETTY Trump’s Allies Know He Has Failed
Defenders of the president seem to have settled on the excuse that the White House botched its pandemic preparations because it was too distracted by the drama on Capitol Hill.
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty This Isn’t All Trump’s Fault (But He Isn’t Helping Either)
Even with perfect leadership, the pandemic was always going to be bad. But the president has caused the crisis to be far worse.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Can’t Even Imitate a Normal President
He couldn’t keep the impression going for an entire press briefing.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Trump Seems to Be Missing His Old Scandals
Why would the president, in the midst of an enormous public-health crisis, want to reignite the story of the Russian-collusion investigation that dominated his first two years in office?
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Incompetence Exacerbated by Malevolence
The coronavirus has dangerously inverted a long-standing White House theme.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump’s Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic
The president cannot rely on his usual strategies of lying and bullying to fight the spread of the coronavirus.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump’s Most Dangerous Destruction Yet
What the president is doing to America’s intelligence community could have enormous repercussions for the 2020 election and the country’s preparedness for threats from around the world.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Imagine If a Democrat Behaved Like Bill Barr
What would the attorney general say were a future administration to follow his lead?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Oversight Wars Are Not Going Away
Impeachment may be over, but other skirmishes between Trump and the House will come to a head over the next few months.
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Mario Tama / Getty How to Avoid Despair
Trump has been acquitted. Now comes the hard part.
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