Politics & Policy
The Future of the American Idea
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Horace Cort / AP / Mike Cassese / ... King's Death Gave Birth to Hip-Hop
The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. led directly to hip-hop, an era of black American culture, politics, and art that is often contrasted with his legacy.
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The Trump Presidency: A Damage Report
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Mike McQuade How Trump Is Ending the American Era
For all the visible damage the president has done to the nation’s global standing, things are much worse below the surface.
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Andrea Morales The Education of Bill Oliver
How a letter to Barack Obama tells the story of two strangers who became family, and one lifelong Republican’s journey to a new kind of patriotism
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Evan Vucci / AP John McCain’s Death Brought Out the Worst in the Trump Administration
A skirmish over whether to fly the White House flag at half-staff showcases its pettiness, divisiveness, disorganization, and lack of backbone.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Devin Nunes’s Curious Trip to London
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee flew to London to gather intel on Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence officer who compiled the dossier alleging Trump-campaign ties with Russia. But MI5, MI6, and GCHQ didn’t seem interested.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP What John McCain’s Death Means for Republican Control of the Senate
After the late Arizonan’s prolonged absence, the appointment of a replacement by Governor Doug Ducey will temporarily bolster the GOP’s advantage.
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Joe Raedle / Getty / Boule / ImageFlow ... Elizabeth Warren’s Theory of Capitalism
A conversation with the Democratic senator about why she’s doubling down on market competition at a moment when her party is flirting with socialism
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Alex Wong / Chip Somodevilla / Getty / ... How Sanders and Warren Will Decide Which One Runs for President
The two senators are natural allies. But when it comes to 2020, each side’s camp believes the Democratic primary is only big enough for one of them.
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Cheryl Senter / AP Avenatti 2020 Was Probably Inevitable
Donald Trump lowered the White House’s bar to entry. Stormy Daniels’s lawyer is stepping right over it.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Environmentalists’ Unlikely Republican Ally in Florida
During a months-long environmental crisis that’s left the state’s beaches covered in green slime, a Trump-backed candidate for governor blames Big Sugar subsidies for causing the pollution.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Half Staff
After public pressure, President Trump issued a proclamation ordering flags lowered “as a mark of respect for the memory and longstanding service of Senator John Sidney McCain III.”
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Brian Snyder / Reuters John McCain’s Epiphany About Paul Manafort
Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican convention as almost a birthright. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn’t abide Manafort’s pro-Russian clients—and told him so.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters John McCain’s 2000 Campaign and the Republican Road Not Taken
The Arizona senator’s insurgent challenge to George W. Bush harkened back to the early-20th-century vision of Theodore Roosevelt—and could still inspire those looking to take the GOP back from Donald Trump.
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Cliff Owen / AP The Trump-McCain Feud Never Ended
As a candidate, the president disparaged his military service. The Arizona senator killed Trump’s first major legislative push. They never forgave each other.
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Thomas J. O'Halloran / Library of Congress / ... John McCain Would Have Passed the Anne Frank Test
The senator spent decades demonstrating his willingness to fight powerful men who abused powerless people.
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Ilana Panich-Linsman Hurricane Harvey Is Houston’s Unending Nightmare
A year after flood waters devastated the nation’s fourth-largest city, Houston remains trapped in an existential moment, struggling to find the funds to rebuild and reengineer and keep another such catastrophe at bay.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Arizona Senator John McCain Dies at 81
The war hero and elder statesman of the Republican Party had fought a year-long battle with brain cancer.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Even Scott Walker Says He’s ‘at Risk’ in Wisconsin
Polling shows a tight race for governor, and a series of special elections has hinted at Trump fatigue in big swings for Democrats.
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Win McNamee / Reuters John McCain and the Lost Art of Decency
In decades of covering politics, I’ve encountered no one else with McCain’s unflinching combination of bracing candor, impossibly high standards, and rueful self-recrimination.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Tip of the Weisselberg
Allen Weisselberg, the longtime CFO of the Trump Organization, was reportedly granted immunity by federal prosecutors in exchange for providing information about Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer.
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New York Prosecutors May Pose a Bigger Threat to Trump Than Mueller
The offer of immunity to the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer is reminiscent of moves law enforcement used as they were taking down the Mafia.
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John Amis / AP The Democratic Effort to Keep Jeff Sessions in Office
Most in the party opposed his confirmation and view him as “a disaster” on policy. But to protect the Mueller investigation, they’re now trying to shield him from President Trump.
