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Yuri Gripas / Reuters This Is a Constitutional Crisis
A cowardly coup from within the administration threatens to enflame the president’s paranoia and further endanger American security.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters We're Watching an Antidemocratic Coup Unfold
Acts of sabotage against the president are perilous to the American system of government. They're also self-serving.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Congressional Republicans Are the Real Authors of the Anonymous Op-Ed
The Constitution demands that the legislature serve as a check on the executive. In its absence, unelected bureaucrats are taking it on themselves to act.
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Chip Somodevilla / Reuters A Judge Who Can’t Be Vetted Shouldn’t Be Confirmed
If Brett Kavanaugh’s extensive paper trail can’t be fully and publicly disclosed, the simplest solution is to nominate someone else.
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Gretchen Ertl / Reuters How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
The sociologist Margaret Hagerman spent two years embedded in upper-middle-class white households, listening in on conversations about race.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Woodward’s Account of Trump’s Mock Interview With Prosecutors Isn’t Pretty
In his new book, Fear, the legendary reporter writes that Trump stumbled over questions about Michael Flynn.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters It’s Time for the Press to Stop Complaining—And to Start Fighting Back
A nearly 50-year campaign of vilification, inspired by Fox News's Roger Ailes, has left many Americans distrustful of media outlets. Now, journalists need to speak up for their work.
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Steven Gottlieb / Corbis / Getty Why Does the School Day End Two Hours Before the Workday?
This mismatch creates a child-care crisis between 3 and 5 p.m. that has parents scrambling for options.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Calls Are Coming From Inside the House
The New York Times published an anonymous op-ed in which a senior official in the Trump administration claims that there is a “resistance” within the administration.
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Chip East / Reuters A Plane Quarantine in New York Started Out Like a Sci-Fi Nightmare
100 supposedly sick passengers ended up only being 10. But the story tapped into potent fears about flying.
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Yoshi Sodeoka Why Technology Favors Tyranny
Artificial intelligence could erase many practical advantages of democracy, and erode the ideals of liberty and equality. It will further concentrate power among a small elite if we don’t take steps to stop it.
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Eric Risberg / AP The Absurdist Spectacle of the Nike Boycotts
The viral responses to the company’s new campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick reinforce the stakes of his protests—and misunderstand what motivated the brand in the first place.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Colin Kaepernick, Nike, and the Myth of Good and Bad Companies
The brand’s alignment with the embattled NFL star is nothing more than smart business.
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters What Was Lost in Brazil’s Devastating Museum Fire
Two hundred years of work—and millions of priceless specimens—have been destroyed in a preventable tragedy.
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Kyodo / Reuters Images of the Destruction Left by Typhoon Jebi in Japan
Yesterday, the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in 25 years tore through the western part of the country with heavy rain and violent winds.
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Di Studio / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Problem With ‘Hey Guys’
A broad coalition of English speakers—teachers, retail workers, ice-cream scoopers, and plenty of others—is grasping for a more inclusive greeting.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Key Lesson of Ayanna Pressley’s Victory
Her triumph in a chunk of Massachusetts once represented by Tip O’Neill shows that the former House speaker’s maxim no longer applies.
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Mortiz Hager / Reuters Taking a Blowtorch to Debate
Steve Bannon and Colin Kaepernick share little in common, but the backlash each faces is rooted in a common rage.
