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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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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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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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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Arizona’s ‘Tricky Voting Machines’ Sounds Suspiciously Familiar
In political conspiracy theories, as in television shows, the plot elements are always the same.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty Why Politics Has Become So Stressful
Fewer voters and states than ever before now decide the fate of our republic.
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Jeff Swensen / Getty J. D. Vance and the Collapse of Dignity
American politics are now cruel burlesque.
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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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Patrick T. Fallon / AFP / Getty The Joy of Voting
It’s good for you.
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Jae C. Hong / AP Liz Cheney Already Has a 2024 Strategy
To save the Republican Party, the defeated Wyoming representative may first have to destroy it.
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Getty; The New York Public Library; Joanne Imperio … How Do You Actually Stop the Steal?
A new bipartisan bill would revise how the presidential vote is certified. But it could come with risky loopholes.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Case That Could Blow Up American Election Law
A radical and baseless legal theory could upend the country’s most essential democratic process.
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Ben Sklar / Getty Actually Good News About Voting, for a Change
Colorado’s simple plan to increase voter registration is already working.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Getty America Is in Denial
Too many Americans are blithely dismissing threats that could prove cataclysmic.
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Gene Smith / AP Go Knock on Doors
Today’s Democrats can learn from the organizers of 1964, whose efforts to register Black voters across the South transformed the meaning of democracy in our country.
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Getty; The Atlantic This Isn’t Jim Crow 2.0
Ignore the phony partisan rhetoric. Washington needs to focus on the Electoral Count Act.
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Getty; The Atlantic Trump Is Making the Midterms a Referendum on Himself
The former president is already picking favorites in Republican contests. Whether they win will be a test of his power.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty How Do Democrats Recover From This?
Here are five ways in which they could salvage their election chances.
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Mel D. Cole Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun
January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Democratic Unraveling Began With Schools
Republican victories in Virginia show how COVID-19 has fundamentally changed American politics.
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Anna Moneymaker / Getty If Democrats Can Lose in Virginia, They Can Lose Almost Anywhere
Led by a candidate who neither repudiated nor embraced Trump, the GOP sweeps to victory.
