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Fox News / AP; Getty; The Atlantic Populism Always Sounds Great in the Abstract
A New Jersey truck driver defeated the state Senate president, but politics needs people who know what they’re doing.
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Susan Walsh / AP Trump Put Milley in an Impossible Position
The general stayed inside the lines—barely. The real problem is that he was in that situation at all.
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Oliver Contreras / Sipa / AP A Bungled Mess
Right now, we need a coherent policy in Afghanistan.
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Juan Carlos / Hans Lucas / Redux Afghanistan Is Your Fault
The American public now has what it wanted.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Myth of the Golden Years
Whether economic times are good or bad, the lament for the old days of factories and mills never changes.
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Jeff Dean / AP The Moral Collapse of J. D. Vance
Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown.
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Getty / The Atlantic The GOP Now Stands for Nothing
A party that doesn’t believe in anything ends up believing only in its right to rule.
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AFP / Lorne Resnick / Paul Natkin / … I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction
How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War
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Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Following Your Gut Isn’t the Right Way to Go
The experts had a rough year. We still have to trust them.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages
The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s.
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Aaron P. Bernstein / Getty Trump Destroyed the Most Important Virtue in America
Biden can help us get it back.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP / Getty Trump’s Removal Is Taking Too Long
Waiting even one more day could mean disaster. Impeach the president now.
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Lambert / Getty Worse Than Treason
No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election.
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Roslyn Ward / U.S. Air Force Trump Could Still Start a Last-Ditch War With Iran
A final grand distraction before the president is forced to relinquish his office is a real danger that deserves serious attention.
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Leah Millis / REUTERS Engaging With Trump’s Die-Hard Supporters Isn’t Productive
The loyalists who still cling to conspiracy theories should be deprived of the attention they seek.
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Peter Van Agtmael / Magnum Photos for Liberation A Large Portion of the Electorate Chose the Sociopath
America will have to contend with that fact.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic At Least Never Trumpers Stood and Fought
Courage exercised only when the coast is clear is not courage; it is opportunism.
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Alicia Tatone This Republican Party Is Not Worth Saving
No one should ever get a second chance to destroy the Constitution.
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Archive Pics / Alamy / The Atlantic Donald Trump, the Most Unmanly President
Why don’t the president’s supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?
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Win McNamee/Getty With Each Briefing, Trump Is Making Us Worse People
He is draining the last reserves of decency among us at a time when we need it most.
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