Russell Berman
A Nation of Pundits
Electability is king in the 2020 Democratic primary as voters are choosing candidates they think their fellow citizens would support—not the ones they actually like best.
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The Atlantic The World’s Most Important Videoconference
How can Joe Biden build a government remotely during a pandemic?
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Paul Morigi / Getty / The Atlantic A Rising Republican’s Bet on a Losing President
Representative Elise Stefanik embraced Donald Trump in her rural New York district and has reaped the benefits in spite of his defeat.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Failure That Could Haunt Democrats for a Decade
Joe Biden won the White House, but Republican power in the states isn’t going anywhere.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Moves Into the Burn-It-Down Phase
The president’s White House press conference showed that he knows his reelection prospects are fading, and he’ll try anything to keep power.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty How Susan Collins Did It
The Republican’s surprising win in Maine represents a victory for moderation in a polarizing era.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Trump’s Risky Bet on Rural America
The president needs to squeeze even more votes out of small-town white Americans to offset his losses elsewhere.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Fails the QAnon Test
The president’s refusal to condemn the conspiracy theory was a shock, but not a surprise.
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Getty / The Atlantic When the Chaos Candidate Goes Missing
Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris offered America a window into a world where Donald Trump isn’t president.
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Liu Jie Xinhua / eyevine / Redux The November Surprise
What if everyone showed up to vote this year?
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Tasos Katopodis / Getty The Virus Is Coming From Inside the White House
Asking whether the celebration of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination was a “super-spreader” event misses the point: Trump’s irresponsibility made this crisis likely.
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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / ... Suddenly, Amy Coney Barrett Might Not Have the Votes
For the moment, COVID-19 diagnoses have jeopardized three votes that Republicans can’t afford to lose.
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SAUL LOEB / AFP / Getty The Man Who Wouldn’t Shut Up
President Trump launched his comeback bid with a simple, familiar strategy: Bulldoze over everyone.
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Getty / The Atlantic No Other Western Democracy Allows This
Only in America does so much power rest in the hands of elderly judges.
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Charles Dharapak / AP What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Means for America
The Supreme Court vacancy will surely inflame an already-angry nation.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Election’s Biggest Threat Is No Longer the Postal Service
Reports of a vote-by-mail apocalypse are greatly exaggerated.
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Luke Sharrett / Bloomberg / Getty If You Can Grocery Shop in Person, You Can Vote in Person
Experts now say the health risk of casting an in-person ballot is relatively low. Will Democrats tell their voters that?
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Paul Morigi / Getty / The Atlantic How Ed Markey Defeated Joe Kennedy
Facing a challenge from a young Kennedy, the long-serving senator from Massachusetts turned his biggest vulnerability into an opportunity.
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Getty / The Atlantic Remember the Pandemic?
President Trump’s surrogates are referring to COVID-19 in the past tense as it continues to ravage America and disrupt the RNC.
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U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ... The Question at the Heart of the Postal Service Crisis
The new postmaster general tried to assure senators that the USPS could handle the election, even as he acknowledged that his changes have slowed down the mail.
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Getty / The Atlantic The United States Versus Steve Bannon
Masked and handcuffed, President Trump’s former chief strategist was arraigned on charges of fraud.
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