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Bruce Lamm / Reuters One Dead, Many in Critical Condition After Ohio State Fair Accident
A ride malfunction caused multiple passengers to be ejected around 20 to 30 feet in the air.
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A Long-Time Senate Staffer, on John McCain
I’ve had my say about John McCain’s decision to support the rushed consideration of the Republican drive to repeal Obamacare…
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Miraflores Palace / Reuters U.S. Sanctions Top Venezuelan Officials
The economic penalties were announced just days before Venezuela will vote to elect a body capable of rewriting the nation’s constitution.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Atlantic Daily: Along the Divisions
Trump's ban on transgender service personnel, the Senate's struggle for health-care agreement, Muslims' reports on discrimination, and more
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Steve Scalise Released From the Hospital
The Louisiana Republican was readmitted to intensive care in early July after being shot at a congressional baseball practice.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Skinny, Clean, and Everything In Between
During the second day of deliberations, Senate Republicans voted against a “clean repeal” of the Affordable Care Act.
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C-SPAN2 / AP Making Sense of the Obamacare Repeal Process
The methods Senate Republicans are using to try to pass a new health law are confusing, but still bound by some clear rules.
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C-SPAN2 via AP John McCain Makes His Choice
The vote he cast, more than the speech he gave, will help define his legacy.
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Mohammad Ismail / Reuters The Taliban's Steady Gains
The group’s capture of a military base highlights Afghanistan’s vulnerabilities more than 15 years after the U.S. invasion.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Judge: Kobach Statements 'Demonstrate a Pattern' of Misleading Claims
A federal judge affirmed a $1,000 fine for the leader of President Trump’s election-integrity panel, saying the Kansas secretary of state had undermined his credibility with misstatements.
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Anne-Christine Poujoulat / AFP / Getty Wildfires Force Evacuations Along the French Riviera
Authorities have evacuated more than 10,000 people from parts of southern France, ahead of several raging wildfires.
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Sandy Huffaker / Getty The Cost of Banning Transgender Service Members
Exclusion leaves the military weaker and the country more divided.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Republicans Reject Another Obamacare Repeal Plan
The GOP’s options are dwindling after the failure of an amendment that would scrap Obamacare without replacing it. Party leaders are now looking for any plan that can pass.
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John Cuneo Jeff Flake’s Gamble
The Arizona Republican is betting his Senate seat on the political appeal of decency—but can that pay off in Trump’s America?
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Wellcome Image The Dangers of Over-Policing Motherhood
An intense focus on mothers’ caregiving in the 20th century set the stage for a rare disorder.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Legislative Health-Care Miracle
Once again, the president helped revive a bill that was considered dead, mostly by refusing to allow Congress to move on.
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Eric Vidal / Reuters Europe Warns Against Tightened U.S. Sanctions on Russia
The reaction in Brussels was angry following a House vote that set up a showdown with the White House.
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Ruben Sprich / Reuters An Inconvenient Time for An Inconvenient Sequel
Al Gore’s follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth is an honest, not-too-uplifting glimpse at this moment in climate politics—and how the sausage of global diplomacy gets made.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Dangerous Deal in Syria
The costs of cooperation with Moscow
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Talking About Trump's Ban on Trans Americans in the Military
In a series of tweets this morning, President Trump announced that “the United States Government will not accept or allow…
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Mike Blake / Reuters This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends
Not with a pop, but a hiss
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Christian Veron / Reuters Venezuela's Deadline
The opposition has until Sunday before President Nicolas Maduro’s regime begins rewriting the constitution.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump’s Transgender Ban Could Force Out Thousands of Service Members
The president’s announcement reverses the Obama-era plan to phase in the open participation of these Americans.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Much Discrimination Do Muslims Face in America?
Many are suspicious of those who practice Islam. Many more are trying to reach out.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters Europe's Top Court Rules Austria Can Deport Some Asylum Seekers
The decision by the European Court of Justice could affect hundreds of migrants.
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Warner Bros. What Christopher Nolan Gets Right About Netflix
The Dunkirk director has been loudly dismissive of the company’s policy on theatrical releases—but he’s really just arguing for a different streaming model.
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Amy Harris / AP The Exquisite Horror in Lana Del Rey's Nostalgia
Lust for Life, the singer's fourth album, greets Trump-era anxieties with an eerie flower-child grin.
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Tier Und Naturfotografie J und C Sohns / ... The Worst Birds
It is inappropriate to make moral judgments about nature. Then again, Chilean seagulls are pecking open the perineums of seal pups.
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Andrew Harnik / AP What's the Real Goal of Trump's Voter-Fraud Commission?
A conversation with Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of three Democrats advising the president on “election integrity”
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Courtesy of Jan M. Lodal Brezhnev's Secret Pledge to 'Do Everything We Can' to Reelect Gerald Ford
As the Cold War raged in 1975, a Russian leader promised his support for a president’s reelection bid.
