McKay Coppins

McKay Coppins is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He has received the Aldo Beckman Award from the White House Correspondents’ Association for his coverage of the Trump presidency and the Wilbur Award for religion journalism. He is the author of The Wilderness, a book about the battle over the future of the Republican Party, and Romney: A Reckoning, a biography of Mitt Romney.

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  2. Spencer Cox’s Crusade

    The Republican governor thinks he can drain the bile from partisan combat. Trying to do it almost broke him.

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    Spencer Cox looks into the distance, with an abstract red, black, and white background illustrated behind him.
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Laura Seitz / The Deseret News / AP.

  4. Sucker

    My year as a degenerate gambler

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    illustration with black-and-white photo of football player holding red-and-white game die instead of football on blue background
    Illustration by Tyler Comrie. Source: Getty.

  5. The First Couple of a Dysfunctional DHS

    A forthcoming book reveals new details about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski.

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    Graphic illustration showing cut-out black-and-white photos of Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski set against a red background with repeating DHS logos.
    Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Tom Williams / Getty; Win McNamee / Getty; Paul Sancya / AP.

  7. A Prophet’s Diagnosis

    With violence and strife erupting all around us, can Russell Nelson’s message of hope, humility, and peace elevate us above that?

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    Color photograph of a single candle being held aloft at a vigil.
    Adam Vander Kooy / Holland Sentinel / Reuters

  9. The Visionary of Trump 2.0

    Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.

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    A photograph of Russell Vought
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Doug Mills / The New York Times / Redux.