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Barack Obama

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes

September 1, 2025

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This Is What Standing Up to Dictators Looks Like

July 25, 2025

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Trump’s Epstein Denials Are Ever So Slightly Unconvincing

July 23, 2025

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The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts

July 22, 2025

Donald Trump using a smartphone

The Atlantic Daily

Presidential Pettiness

July 21, 2025

Donald Trump smiles while answering questions at a podium

Trump’s Epstein Answers Are Getting Worse

July 16, 2025

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What the Right Learned From the Left About Policing Colleges

Conor Friedersdorf

June 29, 2025

Illustration of Donald Trump’s shadow over the Department of Education’s “Dear Colleague” letter

The Anniversary That Democrats Would Be Wise to Forget

June 28, 2025

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Sinwar’s March of Folly

Jeffrey Goldberg

June 23, 2025

An IRGC member holds a poster of Sinwar

The Atlantic Daily

The Democratic Party Slides Into Irrelevance

David A. Graham

June 17, 2025

A donkey cutout in a photo of a No Kings protest

Fox News Vets Are Taking Over America’s 250th Birthday Party

Michael Scherer, Ashley Parker, and Missy Ryan

June 13, 2025

A cake for America's 250th birthday with MAGA written in frosting.

Where Is Barack Obama?

June 8, 2025

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The Secret History of Trump’s Private Cellphone

Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer

June 2, 2025

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The Godfather of the Woke Right

May 7, 2025

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My Near-Future Dystopia

April 25, 2025

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Iran’s Negotiating Position Gets Worse and Worse

April 15, 2025

Witkoff and Aragchi

The Atlantic Daily

Trump Wants Credit for That Too

March 19, 2025

Donald Trump stands with his arms outreached on the red carpeted walkway in the Kennedy Center

What Trump Is Really After in the Middle East

February 27, 2025

A Palestinian village neighbors an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

America Now Has a Minister of Culture

February 25, 2025

A photo of John F. Kennedy, Jr. and a silhouette of Donald Trump superimposed on a photo of the Kennedy Center.

The Atlantic Daily

What Would a Liberal Tea Party Look Like?

David A. Graham

February 24, 2025

At a protest in front of Capitol Hill, an American flag waves and a sign reads: "Congress, STAND UP"

How COVID Pushed a Generation of Young People to the Right

February 18, 2025

Young man sitting in the back of a pickup truck, checking his phone, with a Trump campaign sign and the American flag behind him

Why Isn’t Congress Doing Anything?

February 14, 2025

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What Trump’s Finger-Pointing Reveals

February 3, 2025

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Where Biden Turned the Battleship

January 17, 2025

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Maybe It Was Never About the Factory Jobs

January 13, 2025

Joe Biden behind a bar chart

Political Whiplash in the American Southwest

January 7, 2025

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The Conversation Democrats Need to Have

December 10, 2024

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Work In Progress

Why Democrats Got the Politics of Immigration So Wrong for So Long

December 10, 2024

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How Trump Could Make Congress Go Away for a While

November 18, 2024

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The Limits of Democratic Optimism

November 8, 2024

Kamala Harris smiling during a speech

The Celebrities Are Saying the Loud Part Quietly

Spencer Kornhaber

October 28, 2024

A collage of Chappell Roan, Beyoncé, and Eminem

‘A Lot of People Live Here, and Everybody Votes’

October 27, 2024

People hold blue Harris-Walz signs at a rally

The Atlantic Daily

Harris’s Best Closing Argument Isn’t Coming From Her

John Hendrickson

October 25, 2024

Tyler Perry at a rally

Shifting Campaign Strategies

October 12, 2024

Panelists on "Washington Week With The Atlantic"

‘Politics Can Do Strange Things to Demented People’

John Hendrickson

October 11, 2024

A black-and-white photo collage of Barack Obama and Donald Trump

Game Change Knew Exactly What Was Coming

October 1, 2024

a still from the movie 'Game Change,' with a waving Ed Harris, left, as John McCain, and Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, right