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Getty; The Atlantic Why Do Former Presidents Have Access to Classified Information?
The current laws and norms are badly in need of reform.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty If It Were Anyone Else, They’d Be Prosecuted
A revealing photo removed any remaining ambiguity.
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Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic Andrew Yang Doesn’t Have Any Litmus Tests
The former Democratic candidate says his fledgling third party will attract voters who disagree with one another.
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Jon Elswick / AP What the Search-Warrant Affidavit Tells Us
The former president was not giving up top-secret national-security documents. DOJ had no choice but to act. Trump has only himself to blame.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Drew Angerer / Getty; … Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law
Republicans’ reflexive insistence that the Mar-a-Lago raid is politically motivated is unmoored from the available evidence.
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Rachel Mummey / Reuters The Bannon Strategy
Fringe candidates promising to stop the steal, like Mark Finchem in Arizona, might just have their year.
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Gabriel Carr The Most Pathetic Men in America
Why Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, and so many other cowards in Congress are still doing Trump’s bidding
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C-SPAN; Bettmann / Getty; The Atlantic Trump Can’t Just Erase History Like Nixon Did
The seven-hour gap in the record of January 6 should still be knowable, despite efforts to suppress it.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty What I Learned When Trump Tried to Correct the Record
The former president made an unusual effort to influence how historians will view him.
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Mark Peterson / Redux Trump Is a Flat Circle
The former president knows by now that no one can or will stop him from soliciting and receiving illicit help.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic; Getty Nuclear War Shouldn’t Be Up to Any One Person
Congress and President Biden now have a narrow window to restrict the ability of any future president to launch nuclear weapons.
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The Atlantic; Saul Loeb / Getty; Win McNamee … What Biden’s State of the Union Speech Was For
Few presidents have come into a State of the Union address needing a second wind as badly as Joe Biden did last night.
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Jan Robert Dünnweller What Joe Biden Can Learn From Harry Truman
His approval rating hit historic lows, his party was fractious, crises were everywhere. But Truman rescued his presidency, and his legacy.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: The Republican Definition of ‘Presidential’
Donald Trump’s legacy as POTUS is still coming into focus, but one thing is clear: The GOP’s standards for presidential candidates have dramatically changed.
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Yuri Gripas / Bloomberg / Getty; The Atlantic The Incredible Vanishing Trump Presidency
The Presidential Records Act was not designed for a president as lawless and shameless as Trump.
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The Atlantic The GOP Has No Standards Now
Shredding the Constitution should disqualify anyone applying for a job protecting the Constitution.
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Getty; The Atlantic Does Biden Have a Second Act?
The experience of three recent predecessors shows why it’s too early to count him out.
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Charlie Riedel / AP Biden Won Big With a Bad Hand
Relative to its strength in Congress, the Biden administration has proved outstandingly successful.
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Al Drago / Bloomberg / Getty Joe Biden’s Year Was Ruined. Whose Fault Is That?
The president doesn’t control the economy, and a lot of presidential politics is just plain dumb luck.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Pence 2024?
If Donald Trump officially enters the next presidential race, that doesn’t mean his former vice president will stay out of the contest.
