The Left Can’t Afford to Go Mad
The Trump years had a radicalizing effect on the American right. But, let’s be honest, they also sent many on the left completely around the bend. Some liberals,…
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Trump Voters Are America Too
This 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…
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Trump Isn’t Bluffing
Mandel Ngan / Getty We’ve become inured to his rhetoric, but his message has grown darker. December 7, 2023, 6 AM ET Editor’s Note: This article is part…
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Trump’s Plan to Police Gender
After decades of gains in public acceptance, the LGBTQ community is confronting a climate in which political leaders are once again calling them weirdos and predators. Texas Governor…
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A Plan to Outlaw Abortion Everywhere
The year 2022 was a triumphant one for the anti-abortion movement. After half a century, the Supreme Court did what had once seemed impossible when it overturned Roe…
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The Proud Boys Love a Winner
A second Trump term would validate the violent ideologies of far-right extremists—and allow them to escape legal jeopardy. Matt Huynh December 6, 2023, 6 AM ET Editor’s Note:…
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A Warning
Like many reporters, I’ve been operating in Casaubon mode for much of the past eight years, searching for the key to Donald Trump’s mythologies. No single explanation of…
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What The Atlantic Got Wrong About Reconstruction
The last time The Atlantic decided to reckon with Reconstruction in a sustained way, its editor touted “a series of scholarly, unpartisan studies of the Reconstruction Period” as…
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From Feminist to Right-Wing Conspiracist
In 2019, a mnemonic began to circulate on the internet: “If the Naomi be Klein / you’re doing just fine / If the Naomi be Wolf / Oh,…
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