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Fabrice Coffrini / AFP / Getty Donald Trump Has One Problem
False statements and West Wing disorder are not only inseparably linked; they’re mutually reinforcing.
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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Trump’s Favorite Impeachment Defenses
All the president’s talking points. Plus: Is a Senate impeachment trial that’s called no witnesses unconstitutional?
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Michelle Shephard / Reuters The Torturers Wanted to Stop, but the CIA Kept Going
An interrogator testified that even after prisoner Abu Zubaydah started cooperating, the waterboarding continued.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty Here’s What Trump Has Been Up to While Americans Have Been Distracted by Impeachment
While public attention is focused on the Senate, the president is making controversial policy moves.
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Njeri Mwangi / Reuters There’s a Perfectly Good Reason to Mass-Produce Snake Venom
Lab-grown glands can now produce realistic cocktails of toxins, which could help address one of the world’s biggest and most neglected health crises.
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Mike Segar The Grammys Controversy Is Bigger Than Any One CEO
The picture of the Recording Academy that the former head Deborah Dugan paints is of an organization encrusted by years of self-dealing and mismanagement.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters The Rich Are Different From You and Me. They Pay Less in Taxes.
Very rich Americans play by different rules than the merely well-off and the working poor. Joe Biden’s tax plan wouldn’t do much to change that.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Tulsi Gabbard Sues for Attention
A legal filing from the presidential candidate reads more like a stump speech.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Enemies of Writing
A writer who’s afraid to tell people what they don’t want to hear has chosen the wrong trade.
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Mats Silvan / Getty America Is Overrun With Bathrooms
In the past half century, the number of bathrooms per American has doubled.
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Myriam Wares Cancel Earthworms
The “crazy worms” remaking forests aren’t your friendly neighborhood garden worms. Then again, those aren’t so great either.
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VW Pics / Universal Images Group / Getty The Biggest Celestial Event of the Year Could Happen Tomorrow
... or, well, maybe not for 100,000 years
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Sarah Silbiger / Reuters An Impeachment Trial Without Witnesses Would Be Unconstitutional
And a resulting acquittal verdict would present Americans with something far worse than a constitutional crisis.
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Erin Schaff / AP Who Plays by the Rules?
Senators Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer provide a revealing look at today’s rubber-and-glue politics.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters A Climate-Lawsuit Dissent That Changed My Mind
Twenty-one children brought a lawsuit arguing that the government needs to act on climate change. A federal court dismissed it.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters No, Democrats Aren’t Trying to Overturn the 2016 Election
A surprisingly durable talking point is wrong in at least four ways.
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Carl Court / Getty Juhyo: The Snow Monsters on Japan’s Mount Zao
Windblown ice and snow build up hulking shapes on the trees atop Mount Zao.
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James Darell / Getty The Risk of ‘Getting Bangs’
When a woman picks up a pair of scissors, she also picks up a trope.
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How Keeth Smart Became the Best Fencer in the World
After nearly dying, Smart defied the odds and won a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics.
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Netflix Cheer Is Built on a Pyramid of Broken Bodies
Netflix’s new docuseries doesn’t flinch at the danger that cheerleaders regularly subject themselves to.
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Kevin C. Cox The LSU Championship Game Further Exposed the NCAA’s Hypocrisy
With the recent victory, the association has shown signs that it cannot defend its amateurism model for much longer.
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John Taggart / Redux Harvey Weinstein’s Pain
As his criminal trial begins, the mogul seems to believe that the language of pain used by his accusers applies just as readily to himself.
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Sundance / Focus Features What Critics Are Looking Forward to at Sundance 2020
The annual film festival will kick off a new year in independent cinema this week.
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Mathew Brady / Library of Congress A Matter of Facts
The New York Times’ 1619 Project launched with the best of intentions, but has been undermined by some of its claims.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Defending Trump Is a Has-Been’s Best Hope
Dershowitz, Giuliani, Starr, and others relive their glory days by latching onto the president.
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Andy Clark / Reuters The Necessity of the Indian Child Welfare Act
A case now before the Fifth Circuit threatens to upend the laws that enable Native self-governance.
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Nicolas Asfouri / AFP via Getty Hong Kong’s Protesters Finally Have (Some) Power
Newly elected representatives are among those trying to turn the demonstrations into a permanent prodemocracy movement.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters The Solemn Absurdity of Trump’s Impeachment Trial
As senators embarked on their first day of proceedings, the occasional yawn and rubbing of the eyes emphasized the pointlessness of the whole affair.
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David Ryder / Getty What Jeff Bezos’s Reported Phone Hack Says About Billionaires
Stunning new allegations about the relationship between the Amazon CEO and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia hint at just how connected the world’s most powerful people are.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Hitchens Remembered
On the occasion of this year’s Hitchens Prize, a look back at tributes to Christopher Hitchens by Atlantic writers at the time of his death
