Saahil Desai
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Actually, Women Win Quite a Lot
Which candidates are hurt most by the obsession with “electability?” Elizabeth Warren flips the script on that question. Plus: The Space Force awakens.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Not All Rhodes Lead to Washington
Cory Booker drops out; Eric Garcetti endorses Biden. Plus: The coming impeachment trial may turn out to be routine and predictable, but one figure might introduce some surprise.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: The World’s Nuclear Guardrails Are Vanishing
The thin hope of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons may be gone. Plus: “I know the man well enough to know that’s something he dreamed up all by himself.”
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Will Trump Take the High Road?
The two countries look to be in the same place they were before the killing of Qassem Soleimani: “Caught in a precarious standoff.” Plus: Inside a Warren rally.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: What’s Unpredictable About the Impeachment Trial
67: That’s how many senators would have to buck Trump in the impending impeachment trial for the president to be booted from the White House.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: It’s Beginning to Look Like 2003
Our staff writer David Graham argues that the Iran crisis reeks of the run-up to the Iraq War. Plus: The fans of Joe Biden’s make-America-nice-again vision.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: The 2016 Campaign Cycle Is Still Going
What we learned in the decade that was. Plus: Why are American campaign cycles so interminable?
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: What We Learned This Year
With all of the brain-frying news of 2019, here’s a taste of what we learned in this very chaotic year of politics. Plus, the most under-appreciated American right.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Our Most Memorable Stories of the Year
A few of the pieces—from Steve King to socialism—that stuck with our reporters this year.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Of the People, by the People
Some of our most memorable profiles from 2019. You’ll recognize nearly all of these people as household names, but you’ll likely learn something new from each story.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: An Evangelical Ultimatum
An editorial in Christianity Today stunned observers by calling for Trump’s removal. Hear from its editor in chief. Plus: what the “wine caves” argument is about
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Warning: A Toxic 2020 Ahead
The president’s rally last night “previewed just how toxic the coming year will be.” Plus, is Joe Biden still Schrödinger’s candidate, at once flopping and the front-runner?
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Johnson, Clinton, and Now, Trump
The House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump, an ignominious honor shared by Andrew Johnson (1868) and Bill Clinton (1998). What comes next?
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Only 300-Plus Days to Go Before Election Day
Will impeachment energize Democrats sick of Trump, or will it mobilize Republicans who see overreach on the left? Or will it do neither? Plus, David Graham on the fiction of two Trumps.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Democrats Want to Show They Can Do More Than Impeachment
“In impeaching Trump, House Democrats are posing a question whose answer they do not want to hear,” one writer argues. Plus: What is Tucker Carlson thinking?
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: What Separates the Left From the Left
The food fight within the Democratic Party plays out on all sorts of issues—including impeachment. Plus, Anne Applebaum on the false romance of Russia
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Ukrainian Americans Recognize the Playbook
“I was not surprised, because I come from Ukraine, and it’s a corruptive system. It’s everywhere, even here [in America].” Plus, how the young American left forms a third party.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: When Pete Buttigieg Was a Consultant
“Spreadsheets,” he told our campaign reporter about his highly scrutinized time at McKinsey. Plus: Does Kamala Harris still have VP potential?
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: States Alone Can’t Fix It
Dozens of states are still trying to keep the Paris Agreement alive. Plus: “Donald Trump’s lawyer is Benjamin Franklin’s night sweats.”
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: She’s No Longer Running
Kamala Harris has dropped out of the 2020 race—less than a full year after a promising launch. Plus, the surreal, true story of President Volodymyr Zelensky.