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Erin Schaff / The New York Times / ... How the Senate Stopped Pretending
Senators grapple with the reality that they have destroyed their own house.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic How Conservatives Really Feel About Amy Coney Barrett
Even Trump-skeptical Republicans are relishing the prospect of a 6–3 Court.
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Julio Cortez / AP Why Can’t He Just Say It?
President Donald Trump refused to clearly condemn white supremacy at last night’s debate. This was no accident.
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Schwartz / Getty / The Atlantic Michael Steele Isn’t Having It
“Kiss my ass. I haven’t changed, baby. You have.”
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Brian Snyder / Reuters How Jerry Falwell Jr. Lost His Liberty Flock
The university’s leader has effectively become a spokesman for evangelicalism. Pastors and alumni worry about the consequences for their faith.
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Michael Brochstein / Barcroft Media / Getty / ... Is It Fair to Compare Joe Biden to Brett Kavanaugh?
A candid conversation with the president of the National Women’s Law Center
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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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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Will Anyone Remember 11 Dead Jews?
Eric Lidji is on a one-man mission to keep the Tree of Life massacre from becoming just another entry on a long list of mass shootings and anti-Semitic attacks.
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Lawrence Bryant / Reuters The Trump Administration Sides With Nurses Who Object to Abortion
HHS says the University of Vermont Medical Center required staffers to violate their conscience. The case underscores Trump’s religious-freedom agenda.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Trump Has Enabled Israel’s Antidemocratic Tendencies at Every Turn
The president tweeted that Israel should ban Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country. Now Israel has barred the women from visiting.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters How Trump Is Reversing Obama’s Nondiscrimination Legacy
A new rule would allow federal contractors to make hiring and firing decisions based on their religious beliefs and practices.
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Jim Watson / AFP /Getty Kirsten Gillibrand Targets Biden’s Views on Women
The senator from New York tried to paint the former vice president as regressive, tapping into bigger questions about the Democratic Party’s identity heading into 2020.
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Brendan Smialowski / Getty Democrats Make the Case That They’re the Moral Party
Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson, and other 2020 hopefuls tried to frame domestic policy in broader terms.
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Andrew Harnik / AP How Mitch McConnell Persuaded a Senior House Democrat to Back Impeachment
It wasn’t Robert Mueller’s testimony that pushed Representative Katherine Clark over the edge.
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Lee Corkran / Sygma via Getty The Clarence Thomas Effect
The notoriously quiet Supreme Court justice has had a far-reaching influence on the personnel of the Trump administration, which may be his most lasting legacy.
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infinity21 / Everette Historical / Shutterstock / The ... Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
The small conservative magazine First Things aims to reclaim what has become a dirty word in the Trump era.
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Joe Buglewicz / AP / Paul Spella / ... Pete Buttigieg Takes Aim at Religious Hypocrisy
The second night of the first Democratic debates focused on the American values that have been corrupted under Trump, in the view of the 2020 candidates.
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Barry Thumma / AP Why Democrats Ditched the Hyde Amendment
There used to be a middle ground in the national conversation on abortion. Not anymore.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Why Pro-impeachment Democrats Are Still Siding With Pelosi
They might be calling for an inquiry on Twitter and MSNBC, but they don’t plan to publicly challenge the speaker.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP The Rank and File Are Starting to Defy Pelosi on Impeachment
The shift in attitudes suggests that more House members are viewing the party’s current investigative strategy as ineffective.
