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Inside America’s Ugly Birthday Battle

Michael Scherer

June 11, 2026

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Trump Isn’t Giving Up on His Slush Fund

Sarah Fitzpatrick

June 11, 2026

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Trump Once Played Soccer

June 11, 2026

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The Divided World Cup

June 10, 2026

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What Is the Democrats’ Answer to ‘America First’?

June 10, 2026

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The President’s Arsenal of Insults Has a Telling New Entry

June 10, 2026

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American Christians Face a Choice

June 10, 2026

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The Screwworm Is Messing With America’s Beef

June 9, 2026

Atlantic Trivia: Don’t Throw in the Towel

June 9, 2026

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What Donald Trump Will Never Understand About Fighting

Bhumika Tharoor

June 9, 2026

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Why Republicans Aren’t Condemning Trump’s Meet the Press Walkout

June 8, 2026

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Cut Platner Loose

June 6, 2026

Washington Week With The Atlantic

The Republicans Defying Trump

June 6, 2026

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Why Trump Wants to Celebrate His Birthday With a Cage Fight

Conor Friedersdorf

June 6, 2026

The Congresswoman Who Got Trump’s Name Off the Kennedy Center

Janay Kingsberry

June 6, 2026

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The J6 Rioter Now Working at the Pentagon

June 5, 2026

Elias Irizarry, highlighted in red, holding a metal pole in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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Trump Thinks His Administration Is ‘Like Pirates’

David A. Graham

June 4, 2026

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The World Cup of Ugh

Jonathan Lemire

June 4, 2026

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California Democrats Avoided the Worst-Case Scenario

June 4, 2026

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Trump’s Name Is Disappearing From More Than Just the Kennedy Center

Janay Kingsberry

June 4, 2026

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The Iran Problem Trump Can’t Defer

June 4, 2026

An angry-looking Donald Trump sits between an American and an Israeli flag.

Is the GOP Starting to Defy Trump?

June 4, 2026

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We’re About to Hear a Lot More About Iowa

June 3, 2026

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What Trump’s New Plan for the 250th Reveals

June 3, 2026

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Donald Trump’s Superficiality Is Bone-Deep

June 3, 2026

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National Security

Trump Dreads an Iran Deal Worse Than Obama’s

Vivian Salama, Jonathan Lemire, and Nancy A. Youssef

June 3, 2026

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The Arch Is Atrocious

June 3, 2026

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Another Chance for Trump to Cash Out

June 3, 2026

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The President Keeps Contradicting Himself on AI

Lila Shroff and Matteo Wong

June 2, 2026

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What Trump Wants From Bill Pulte

June 2, 2026

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One Reason Trump Might Have Chosen His New Intelligence Chief

David A. Graham

June 2, 2026

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Trump’s Strange Choice for Director of National Intelligence

June 2, 2026

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All These Defeats Are Ruining Trump’s Birthday

June 1, 2026

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Why Did Donald Trump Get So Suddenly Shy?

David A. Graham

June 1, 2026

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How to Silence the Federal Workforce

June 1, 2026

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Use It or Lose It

Adrienne LaFrance

July 2026 Issue

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