Those tuning into Thursday night’s presidential debate may feel a sense of deja vu as President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump take the stage in similar…
Read more You’re Not In A Time Machine, Biden and Trump Are Going Head-To-Head AgainSign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring our 2024 election coverage. Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he regards his party’s position on…
Read more The Pro-life Movement’s Not-So-Secret Plan for TrumpIf Donald Trump has benefited from one underappreciated advantage this campaign season, it might be that no one seems to be listening to him very closely anymore. This…
Read more You Should Go to a Trump RallyThis article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. In the last spring of the Obama administration, Michelle Obama was…
Read more Trump Voters Are America TooOn Saturday afternoon, with just over six weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, Ron DeSantis told a story about how he once bravely stood up to the…
Read more Ron DeSantis Does Not Seem to Be Enjoying HimselfWhen Donald Trump first took office, he put a premium on what he called “central casting” hires—people with impressive résumés who matched his image of an ideal administration…
Read more Loyalists, Lapdogs, and Cronies“We’ve become a party of losers,” the conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy declared during the opening minutes of tonight’s Republican primary debate in Florida. He bemoaned the GOP’s lackluster…
Read more Trump’s Rivals Pass Up Their ChanceNo one wants to appear before a judge as a criminal defendant. But court is a particularly inhospitable place for Donald Trump, who conceptualizes the value of truth…
Read more The Courtroom Is a Very Unhappy Place for Donald TrumpThis article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up…
Read more Vivek Ramaswamy’s TruthThis article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. Sign up…
Read more The Candidate of the ‘Tucker-Rogan-Elon-Bannon-Combo-Platter Right’Vivek Ramaswamy is a tall man with tall hair. And last week, when he stood in front of a crowd in Iowa wearing a black T-shirt under a…
Read more A Bouncy, Fresh Brand of TrumpismRepublicans have had 10 months to hammer out a coherent post-Roe message on abortion. You would think they’d have nailed it by now. Yet on Tuesday, Nikki Haley…
Read more Nikki Haley’s Dilemma Is Also the Republicans’ ProblemYou’d think that, by now, Donald Trump’s fans would be tired of all this. The long lines and the self-indulgent speeches and the relentless blasting of Laura Branigan’s…
Read more Trump Begins the ‘Retribution’ TourPress them hard enough, and most Republican officials—even the ones with MAGA hats in their closets and Mar-a-Lago selfies in their Twitter avatar—will privately admit that Donald Trump…
Read more Republicans’ 2024 Magical ThinkingSenator Raphael Warnock’s win in yesterday’s Georgia Senate runoff capped a commanding show of strength by Democrats in the states that decided the 2020 race for the White…
Read more What the Georgia Runoff RevealedTurn on a television in any state with a competitive Senate or gubernatorial race, and you’ll see that the criminal-justice reform agenda is under constant attack. Republicans are…
Read more What’s Really Going on With the Crime Rate?Every second of every day, oxygen-rich blood is coursing through your brain. Your heart pumps it up through your chest and neck, along tinier and tinier arterial tubes,…
Read more Do Voters Care About John Fetterman’s Stroke?JAY, Maine—Services at the New Life Baptist Church had just wrapped up, and in the parking lot outside its tiny chapel, Paul LePage was standing behind me with…
Read more Has Trumpism Run Out of Steam?
