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Adam Riding for The Atlantic A Troubling Sign for 2024
The midterms were a welcome reprieve for democracy. But the story of Bill Gates, an Arizona election official, suggests that we might not be so lucky in next year’s presidential election.
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Royal Navy Official Photographer / Imperial War Museums … Radio Atlantic: This Is Not Your Parents’ Cold War
It’s been a year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the war continues. How should we be thinking about what comes next?
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The Atlantic Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track
Yes, America is a wounded giant—but it always has been, and the case for optimism is surprisingly strong.
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Mateus Bonomi / Anadolu Agency via Getty The Trump-Bolsonaro Connection
Anne Applebaum on the global cohort of antidemocratic influencers that encouraged the insurrection in Brazil
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The Atlantic A Chance for a Reset on Venezuela
The collapse of the opposition’s flawed interim government, which the U.S. had backed, provides an opportunity for a new approach.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters What the Rioters in Brazil Learned From Americans
Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters showed that antidemocratic revolutions can be contagious too.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why I Joined, Then Left, the Forward Party
The desire to fix the political process doesn’t necessarily convey the ability to make change happen.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty The Threat to Democracy Is Still in Congress
One hundred forty-seven Republicans voted to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Almost all of them are still in office.
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Getty; The Atlantic The Bottom-Up Election-Denial Strategy
It’s wrong, it seems illegal, and it’s probably not going to work. For now.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Case That’s All About Donald Trump
Even if it’s not explicitly about him at all.
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Samuel Corum / Getty Democracy Was on the Ballot—And Won
The American crisis isn’t over, but the midterms were a good sign.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty This Is What Decadence Looks Like
Saving democracy shouldn’t be the Democrats’ main pitch to voters.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty A Closing Argument for Democracy
The president defends American institutions, but it might be too late.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic How Hitler’s Enablers Undid Democracy in Germany
The way the Nazis used “the politics of legality” to gain absolute power after a failed coup is an ominous lesson about the fragility of a republic.
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Bettmann / Getty When Fetal Rights Are More Important Than Democracy
After Roe, the anti-abortion movement faces a new opponent: popular opinion.
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Danielle Del Plato Bad Losers
Election deniers are a threat to democracy. The midterms could be the last chance to stop them.
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Photo-illustration by Mark Harris. Sources: Alabama Secretary of … John Roberts’s Long Game
Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty The Speech No President Should Have to Give
Joe Biden’s duty made it necessary.
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Brent Stirton / Getty Fear of Fascism
We’re hesitant to use the word, and for good reason.
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Getty; Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic The Realist’s Weapon in the Fight for Democracy
Coaxing despots into a cushy exile is sometimes the best option.
