Tim Alberta
He was previously the chief political correspondent for Politico. He is also the author of American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump.
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Mark Peterson / Redux for The Atlantic Inside the Meltdown at CNN
CEO Chris Licht felt he was on a mission to restore the network’s reputation for serious journalism. How did it all go wrong?
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Illustration by Daniel Zender / The Atlantic; Getty Donald Trump Is on the Wrong Side of the Religious Right
Evangelical leaders are abandoning the former president, and his Republican rivals are scrambling to win their support.
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Raymond Boyd / Getty Requiem for the Spartans
The school I love is forever changed.
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Erin Scott / Bloomberg / Getty Mike Pence Refuses to Connect the Dots
In his new memoir, the former vice president selectively edits his four years with Trump to avoid a necessary reckoning.
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Bettmann / Getty Trumpism Is Toxic
And three other lessons of the midterm elections
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Philip Montgomery for The Atlantic Why Democrats Are Losing Hispanic Voters
The left has alienated America’s fastest-growing group of voters just when they were supposed to give the party a foolproof majority.
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Danielle Del Plato Bad Losers
Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.
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Megan Varner / Getty What Comes After the Search Warrant?
Why August 8 may become a new hinge point in U.S. history
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Jonno Rattman How Politics Poisoned the Evangelical Church
The movement spent 40 years at war with secular America. Now it’s at war with itself.
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LeAnn Mueller The Revenge of the Normal Republicans
Will Hurd thinks there are enough normal voters to deliver him the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. But is he right?
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Kholood Eid for The Atlantic What the GOP Does to Its Own Dissenters
After January 6, Peter Meijer thought he could help lead the Republican Party away from an abyss. Now he laughs at his own naïveté.
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Devin Oktar Yalkin ‘I Was Responsible for Those People’
The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11, while 79 of his employees died. He’s still searching for permission to move on.
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Lauren Tamaki The Nicest Man in Stand-Up
Nate Bargatze’s humor is slow, inoffensive, even soothing. And he’s one of the hottest acts in comedy.
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Senate Newswire The Senator Who Decided to Tell the Truth
A Michigan Republican spent eight months searching for evidence of election fraud, but all he found was lies.
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Scotty Hall Elvis Reenters the Building
In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.
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Episode 37: Thank Kevin
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Episode 36: The Fall of Rand Paul
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Episode 35: Walker Calls It Quits
September 25, 2015
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Bloomberg AFP/Getty Scott Walker Is Dropping Out of the 2016 Race
The Wisconsin governor is the second Republican candidate to pull the plug on his campaign.
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Episode 34: The Second Republican Debate
