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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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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty This Is No Way to Beat Trump
I’m a former Republican who’ll vote for any Democrat. But Iowa has me worried.
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Khalid Mohammed / AP Iran’s Smart Strategy
The Iranians chose neither to fold nor to fight. It is not clear at this point who was more deterred by whom.
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Meg Kinnard / AP How Hillary Clinton Boosted Tulsi Gabbard
The 2016 Democratic nominee is right to worry about the congresswoman from Hawaii—but overshot the mark by calling her a Russian asset while offering no proof.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Impeachable Tweets
Trump’s admissions on social media alone provide enough material for Congress to remove him.
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Reuters / Tom Brenner If This Isn’t Impeachable, Nothing Is
The president reportedly sought the help of a foreign government against Joe Biden.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Wants Tanks on the National Mall. What Could Go Wrong?
A show of military might to gratify the president’s ego—on Independence Day, no less—is yet another blow to republican virtue.
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Vladimir Repik / Reuters Chernobyl Should Make Humanity Count Its Blessings
The HBO miniseries peers into an insane system and reveals how lucky the world is that the Soviet Union collapsed.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Don’t Let Students Run the University
Trying to get professors fired because you don’t like their views isn’t activism—it’s preening would-be totalitarianism.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Goes Beyond Cronyism—To Something Far Worse
By naming people such as Herman Cain and Stephen Moore to top jobs, Trump converts the machinery of government to his personal use.
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Mark Wilson / Getty In Trump’s World, Reality Is Negotiable
The president’s resistance to learning will long outlive his administration.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters Trump Escalates His Assault on Civil-Military Relations
The president’s public disparagement of retired generals compounds the damage he has done.
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Carol Highsmith / Library of Congress Why I’m Leaving the Republican Party
The Kavanaugh confirmation fight revealed the GOP to be the party of situational ethics and moral relativism in the name of winning at all costs.
