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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Alex Wong / Getty / The Atlantic Is This the End?
The CDC’s surprising mask announcement was not just a public-health milestone.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Liz Cheney’s Unforgivable Sin
The modern Republican Party does not tolerate criticism of its once—and current—leader.
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Christopher Lee / VII / Redux Why Larry Krasner’s Defeat Would be ‘Disastrous’ for Criminal-Justice Reform
The Philadelphia district attorney’s reelection bid will test whether a progressive prosecutor can survive a spike in gun violence.
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Tom Williams / Getty / The Atlantic Can Democrats Make Peace With Their Favorite Trump-Era Villain?
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s reform plan looks a lot better now that Donald Trump is no longer president.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Blue States That Make It Hardest to Vote
Democrats are criticizing Republicans for pushing restrictive voting laws. But states such as Joe Biden’s Delaware can make casting a ballot difficult.
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Getty / The Atlantic Why Democrats Might Need to Play Dirty to Win
The party is trying to ban partisan gerrymandering nationwide, but aggressively redrawing districts in blue states like New York might be the only way to preserve its House majority.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Republican Electoral College Contradiction
State GOP lawmakers want to maximize their party’s advantage in the next presidential race, but their approach is far from consistent.
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Alyssa Schukar / The New York Times / … Will Kyrsten Sinema Change Her Mind?
The Arizona Democrat’s stand in favor of the filibuster has made her the most enigmatic member of the Senate.
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Wikimedia / The Atlantic How a ‘False Flag’ Cry Has Divided Republicans in Oregon
The state GOP’s embrace of a false conspiracy theory shows the deep imprint of Trumpism within the party and has prompted a backlash from leaders who want to move on.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Political-Reform Movement Scores Its Biggest Win Yet
Election changes such as ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan primaries are popping up across the country—and are already upending national politics.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Impeaching Trump Was an Act of Self-Defense
In impeaching President Trump a second time, Democrats believe they’re acting to remove “a clear and present danger” not only to American citizens and democracy at large, but to themselves specifically.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Biden Presidency Now Stands a Chance
The Democratic success in the South is poised to change the balance of power in Washington.
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T. J. Kirkpatrick / The New York Times … Mitch McConnell’s Slipping Grip on the Republican Party
What happens when GOP senators stop listening to their own majority leader?
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Getty / The Atlantic The Democrats Trying to Overturn an Election
The nation’s largest city overwhelmingly approved a referendum to adopt ranked-choice voting a year ago. Now some elected leaders are trying to delay the reform.
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Wiki /The Atlantic The Nation’s Most Ambitious Police Reform Launches Today
Cynics say that this summer’s racial-justice protests changed little. New Jersey wants to prove them wrong.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Secret to Beating the Electoral College
Abolishing the controversial democratic institution seems out of the question. But there is still a way around it.
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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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