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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Elliot Higgins / … The Trump AI Deepfakes Had an Unintended Side Effect
The most crucial element of the fake Trump-arrest images is not that they are misleading. It is that they are cinematic.
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Illustration by Doug Chayka* The GOP Is Just Obnoxious
It’s why the party keeps losing elections.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Joe Raedle / … Biden’s Classified Documents Should Have No Impact on Trump’s Legal Jeopardy
Given the facts as they are now known, only the most superficial parallel can be drawn between the two situations.
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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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Stanislav Beloglazov / Getty; Tasos Katopodis / Getty; … The GOP Is a Battering Ram Against Truth
For Trump, the violence on January 6 was a bonus.
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Scott Olson / Getty The IRS Really, Really Should Have Audited Trump
The failure to do so is outrageous and needs to be investigated.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Biggest Takeaway from the January 6 Report
Rather than conducting a large-scale dragnet, the committee zeroed in on the former president.
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Sergei Bobylyov / Sputnik / AFP / Getty What Trump and Musk Don’t Get About Russia’s Nuclear Threats
Putin’s hollow rhetoric warrants no concessions from the West.
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The Atlantic The Prosecution of Trump Runs Into Some Serious First Amendment Troubles
But they are surmountable if the government takes into account his other actions on January 6, 2021.
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Win McNamee / Getty Justice Is Coming for Donald Trump
Every effort to hold Donald Trump accountable has been thwarted by those who made it someone else’s job. Not anymore.
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Getty The Trump Abandonment Has Begun
The former president’s newest critics ought to show some contrition.
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Getty / The Atlantic When Everything You Touch Turns to Crime
One crime, two crimes, red crime, blue crime
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Joshua A. Bickel / Bloomberg / Getty Will an Influential Conservative Brain Trust Stand Up to Trump?
Plus: Cases for, and against, medical euthanasia in Canada
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Spencer Platt / Getty Trump’s Reckoning With the Rule of Law
His company now has criminal convictions, and his effort to seek political immunity is looking shaky.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters / Redux Donald Trump Is No Lover of the Constitution
Trump’s incoherent constitutional philosophy summed up: The Constitution provides a first option, but if for some reason he doesn’t like it, he’s happy to discard it.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty The GOP Can’t Hide From Extremism
A perfect storm is brewing among Trump, Fuentes, Ye … and Twitter.
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Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Never Trump Means Never
Opposing Trumpism is about more than rejecting one man.
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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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Joe Raedle / Getty The Authoritarian Right Is Regrouping
In Moscow, Mar-a-Lago, and beyond, desperate men are mobilizing anyone they can to help them regain power.
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Mark Peterson / Redux A Ploy, Not a Principle
Republican criticism of the Mar-a-Lago dinner with a Holocaust denier will be disavowed if Trump looks to be winning the party’s 2024 nomination.
