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Charles McQuillan / Getty Boris Johnson’s Terrible Parting Gift
Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, is walking into an economic hurricane.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty The Shameless Boris Johnson
The prime minister couldn’t even resign with grace.
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Carl Court / Getty; The Atlantic How to Hold a Charismatic Charlatan to Account
Boris Johnson’s party ditched its dysfunctional leader, yet the GOP remains in thrall to the much more dangerous Donald Trump.
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Ben Stansall / WPA Pool / Getty What Brexit Did to Boris Johnson—And Britain
The prime minister’s fake populism led to his undoing—and will keep haunting his country.
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Carl Court / Getty The Worst, Best Prime Minister
Boris Johnson achieved almost nothing except for one very big thing: Brexit.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic Here Lies Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson’s dishonesty finally led to his downfall.
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Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty The Game Is (Probably) Up for Boris Johnson
His most senior ministers are getting off the carousel of chaos because they just don’t see him governing the country.
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John J. Custer Britain’s Unbridgeable Divide
Britain has taken back control but has yet to exercise much of it.
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Ben Birchall / PA / Getty The Brexit Revolution That Wasn’t
Britons were promised freedom. Instead, we got little stamps on beer glasses.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Boris Johnson Has Only Delayed the Inevitable
The prime minister’s political life once appeared to be a sweeping epic. Despite surviving a no-confidence motion, it risks being more of a tragic novella.
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Stefan Boness / VISUM / Redux Why Boris Johnson Gets Away With It
The political reality is that a crisis caused by someone else in a faraway country may have saved Britain’s prime minister from a crisis caused by himself at home.
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Stegan Rousseau / AFP / Getty; The Atlantic The Tears of a Clown
Boris Johnson’s unseriousness may have finally caught up to him.
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Leon Neal / Getty ‘In the Name of God, Go’
Britain’s prime minister sees himself as Winston Churchill’s heir. But what if he is remembered as another Neville Chamberlain instead?
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Charles McQuillan / Getty The Party’s Over
Boris Johnson, Britain’s “minister of chaos,” may be forced from office for—what else?—partying on the job.
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Micha Theiner / VISUM / Redux What Is the Point of Boris Johnson?
Two years after his historic general-election win, the most radical British prime minister since Margaret Thatcher is scandal-plagued, unpopular, and adrift.
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Matt Dunham / AP Is Boris Johnson a Liar?
And if he is, why don’t his supporters seem to care?
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Nadav Kander The Minister of Chaos
Boris Johnson knows exactly what he’s doing.
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Getty / The Atlantic Boris Johnson Keeps Defying Gravity
The British prime minister continually survives the chaos of his choices—much to pundits’ chagrin. How?
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OLI SCARFF / AFP via Getty What Boris Johnson Should Have Known
A touch of Churchillian circumspection—rather than just bulldog bravado—might have saved the prime minister’s moral and political authority.
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Matthew Horwood / Getty / The Atlantic Boris Johnson and the Optimism Delusion
The prime minister has returned to work, bringing his characteristic positivity with him. For it to succeed, he needs to back up his rhetoric with results.
