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What Trump Means by ‘Impartial Justice’

David A. Graham

March 17, 2025

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The Death of Scandal

March 13, 2025

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Musk’s Madisonian Insight—And Its Troubling Consequences

March 13, 2025

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The Whistleblower for the Whistleblowers

David A. Graham

March 10, 2025

Hampton Dellinger

Colleges Have No Idea How to Comply With Trump’s Orders

March 10, 2025

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The Trump Administration’s Environmental Pile-On

March 7, 2025

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The Atlantic Daily

The November Election That Still Hasn’t Been Certified

David A. Graham

March 6, 2025

A group of protesters gather in North Carolina. One sign reads: We the People elected Allison Riggs for NC Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Foreign-Aid Ruling Is a Bad Sign for Trump

Stephen I. Vladeck

March 5, 2025

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Firing the ‘Conscience’ of the Military

Paul Rosenzweig

March 3, 2025

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Trump Tests the Courts

David A. Graham

February 27, 2025

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Law and Order for Some

David A. Graham

February 25, 2025

Rep. Cory Mills sits in front of a large American flag

Lawful, but Enormously Destructive

February 23, 2025

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‘Constitutional Crisis’ Is an Understatement

David A. Graham

February 21, 2025

The Governor Who Stood Up to Trump

February 21, 2025

A Trump Cabinet Pick Gets a Rare GOP Grilling

February 19, 2025

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A Blatant Violation of Legal Ethics

Barbara McQuade

February 14, 2025

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Trump Is Remaking the World in His Image

February 14, 2025

A color photo-illustration of Donald Trump in a red MAGA cap swinging a golf club at a soccer-ball-size Earth

What Will Happen If the Trump Administration Defies a Court Order?

February 13, 2025

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Presidents May Not Unilaterally Dismantle Government Agencies

February 12, 2025

An upside-down Capitol above Trump speaking into a mic

Why No One Can Fix the Broken Licensing System

Rebecca Haw Allensworth

February 12, 2025

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The Constitutional Crisis Is Here

February 4, 2025

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The Illegal Drug at Every Corner Store

February 3, 2025

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RFK Jr. Has a Lot to Learn About Medicaid

Katherine J. Wu

January 29, 2025

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There Is a Strategy Behind the Chaos

David A. Graham

January 29, 2025

An illustration of a $100 bill inside a melting ice cube

The Attack on Trans Rights Won’t End There

January 29, 2025

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‘It’s an Illegal Executive Order. And It’s Stealing.’

January 28, 2025

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Europe’s Elon Musk Problem

March 2025 Issue

The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution

January 22, 2025

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The Online Porn Free-for-All Is Coming to an End

January 22, 2025

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Republican Leaders Once Thought January 6 Was ‘Tragic’

Annie Joy Williams and Gisela Salim-Peyer

January 20, 2025

A color photograph of Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.

What Trump Did to Police Officers

January 20, 2025

Donald Trump raises his fist in the air, and rioters raise American flags.

Pornography Shouldn’t Be So Easy for Kids to Access

Elizabeth Bruenig

January 19, 2025

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Emergency Powers Are About to Be Tested

Elizabeth Goitein

January 18, 2025

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That’s Not How Constitutional Amendments Work

January 17, 2025

A photo-illustration showing Biden and the words "We the People"

Where Biden Turned the Battleship

January 17, 2025

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A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack on the Judiciary

January 16, 2025

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