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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Brazil’s ‘January 6 Moment’ Is a Warning
The threat from authoritarian populists endures.
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Getty; The Atlantic How Moderates Won the Midterms
A lesson for any party that wants to succeed in 2024
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters What Bolsonaro’s Loss Reveals About the Limits of Populism
The sight of a would-be authoritarian losing at the ballot box is welcome, but it’s too soon to declare a total victory over the demagogues.
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Getty; The Atlantic Attack of the Zombie Populists
Antidemocratic demagogues have an amazing ability to stage comebacks after suffering political death. Here’s why—and how to defeat them.
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Alberto Pizzoli / AFP / Getty Italians Didn’t Exactly Vote for Fascism
The electoral victory of Giorgia Meloni is nothing to be complacent about, but Italians are cynical about how long any government will last. Let’s hope they’re right.
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Nathan Howard / Getty Why Freedom of Speech Is the Next Abortion Fight
A legal battle in Mississippi will test whether states can criminalize those who merely provide information.
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The Atlantic Democrats Need a Real Primary Contest
To beat the Trump GOP, the party must give voters a proper say in who will be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2024.
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Ben Hickey The Real Chill on Campus
Most students are open to real debate. But their colleges are failing them.
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The Atlantic; Getty The Doom Spiral of Pernicious Polarization
The U.S. is more dangerously divided than any other wealthy democracy. Is there a way back from the brink?
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Lionel Preau / Riva Press / Redux Why Marine Le Pen Is So Close to Power
The French mainstream has failed to counter the far right’s pessimism about the state of the country. Americans are making the same mistake.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; CSA-Printstock / Getty How Diverse Democracies Can Protect Their Citizens
Only liberal values can ensure true freedom.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Dictators Aren’t Pretending Anymore
The democratic recession is so severe that autocrats now openly stage coups, steal elections, and invade other countries.
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The Atlantic Open Everything
The time to end pandemic restrictions is now.
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The Atlantic Omicron Is the Beginning of the End
No matter the severity of the variant, the appetite for shutdowns or other large-scale social interventions simply isn’t there.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty You Can’t Win Elections by Telling Voters Their Concerns Are Imaginary
Virginia is sending Democrats a warning: They’ve lost control of the narrative about education.
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David Baltzer / Zenit / laif / Redux Four Measures That Are Helping Germany Beat COVID
And why we’re failing to do the same things in America
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Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg / Getty Why the Latest Campus Cancellation Is Different
Following a Twitter outcry, a scientist was stopped from giving a lecture at MIT for reasons that had nothing to do with the lecture itself.
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Kay Nietfeld / DPA / AP The World Won’t Miss Angela Merkel
The German chancellor’s departure feels like a historic moment. But little will change once she’s gone.
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Wakil Kohsar / AFP / Getty So Much for a ‘Foreign Policy for the Middle Class’
Biden’s answer to Trump’s approach lasted only as long as its first major test.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic We Might Have Reached Peak Populism
If the picture looked almost unremittingly bleak a few years ago, now distinct patches of hope are on the horizon.
