The AtlanticMadison Cawthorn They Should Have Taken Them at Their Word verified_publisherThe Atlantic - David A. GrahamThey never saw it coming. Ben Goldey resigned as Representative Lauren Boebert’s communications director after the January 6 attempted coup. Lauren Blair Bianchi quit the same job in Senator Ted Cruz’s...
The AtlanticU.S. Politics What to Do With Trumpists verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Graeme WoodAt noon tomorrow, our four-year experiment in being governed by the political equivalent of the Insane Clown Posse will finally end. It is ending in Juggalo style (some have called it “Trumpalo”), violently...
The AtlanticU.S. Politics The Presidency Won’t Go Back to How It Was verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Jack GoldsmithAfter years of Donald Trump’s boorish defiance of presidential norms, his incitement of the violence at the Capitol closed his term with a demented rave that shamed American democracy. Tomorrow Joe Biden...
The AtlanticWarren G. Harding The Worst President in History verified_publisherThe Atlantic - Tim NaftaliPresident Donald Trump has long exulted in superlatives. The first. The best. The most. The greatest. “No president has ever done what I’ve done,” he boasts. “No president has ever even come close,” he...
The AtlanticRacism Who’s the Snowflake Now? verified_publisherThe Atlantic - John McWhorterThe right often accuses the left of exaggerating victimhood, turning a blind eye to reality, and distorting language to do so. The left, it’s often said, harbors “snowflakes” and the like who are beset...