Why Do So Many Americans Think Democrats Are Out of Touch?
The party appears to be struggling to convince the public it represents a better alternative to President Trump and the GOP.
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Christopher Aluka Berry / Reuters Is There Any Room in the 'Big Tent' for Pro-Life Democrats?
Conflicts over reproductive rights have raised questions about who the party will accept, and who it will reject, in its coalition.
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Mary Schwalm / Reuters Rifts Over Abortion and Economic Populism Threaten to Divide Democrats
A debate over what it means to be a progressive is front-and-center as the party tries to rebuild.
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Joe Raedle / Getty A Divided Georgia District Braces for a Runoff as Jon Ossoff Falls Short
The Democratic challenger had a strong showing in a conservative district on Tuesday, but failed to earn enough votes to prevent another contest in June against Republican Karen Handel.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters ‘Protest Is Necessary, but Insufficient’
Anyone can create political power, Eric Liu argues in a new book, but opposition alone won’t win converts to a cause.
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Win McNamee / Getty Images Is There a Case for Liberal Optimism in the Trump Era?
The Democratic Party has lost power at the national level and in state legislatures. Even so, Ruy Teixeira argues that liberals should feel hopeful about the future.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters Republican Lawmakers Face Hostile Town-Hall Crowds
In response, some GOP members of Congress are attempting to show sympathy for voter concerns.
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Win McNamee / Reuters A Triumphant Moment for Elizabeth Warren
The Massachusetts senator is in the spotlight for criticizing the president’s agenda. The louder she opposes Trump, however, the more she may find her own actions closely scrutinized, and harshly judged.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump and the Threat of Global Conflict
A conversation with Robert Jervis of Columbia University on the potential consequences of the president’s combative rhetoric
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Susan Walsh / AP 'He's Going to Continue to Create Chaos'
Dan P. McAdams, the author of The Atlantic’s June 2016 cover story “The Mind of Donald Trump,” shares what he learned about Trump and what might be expected during his presidency.
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Mike Theiler / Reuters Why Some Democrats in Congress Refuse to Attend Trump's Inauguration
“Trump is absolutely trying to attack our democratic institutions and to make the country more authoritarian,” one Democratic lawmaker warns.
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Savo Prelevic / AFP / Getty Can Evangelicals Help Trump Thaw Relations With Russia?
They were Ronald Reagan’s allies during the Cold War. But some now want the president-elect to build bridges with Vladimir Putin.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters A Fight Over Ethics in the Age of Trump
Republican Jason Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has taken aim at a federal watchdog.
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Spencer Platt / Getty Why Trump’s Conflict-of-Interest Plan Won't Prevent Conflicts of Interest
“This isn’t the way the presidency has worked since Congress passed the Ethics in Government Act in 1978,” the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics said on Wednesday.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Republican Women Donald Trump Alienated
Conservative women who oppose the incoming president must decide whether to stay in the GOP or leave.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Will Blue-Collar Whites Change Their Minds About Obamacare?
These voters overwhelmingly oppose the Affordable Care Act. Yet millions of them have gained health-care coverage under the law.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Democratic Party Faces a Daunting Future
It won’t be easy for the party to win back voters lost to the GOP.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters 'He Was the Nationalist Candidate'
The editor of First Things on Donald Trump and the limits of multi-cultural democracy
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David Goldman, Richard Drew, Steve Helber, Chuck Burton ... The Year in Religion and Politics
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016—from religious-liberty bills to Donald Trump's polarizing effect on evangelicals.
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Jeff Roberson, Andres Kudacki, Evan Vucci, Charles Rex ... The Year in Race, Identity, and Criminal Justice
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2016, when longstanding tensions over race and identity erupted into conflict.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Democrats Have a Religion Problem
A conversation with Michael Wear, a former Obama White House staffer, about the party’s illiteracy on and hostility toward white evangelicals
