The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs
2h By Jonathan ChaitAuthoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.Trump’s Day of Reckoning
3h By Jonathan LemireThe president’s allies are privately acknowledging that he is in a rough stretch.Wisconsin’s Message for Trump
1:00pm By Charles SykesElon Musk has become a political boat anchor.No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers
7:00am By David FrumThey voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump.The Big Story: The Fallout From the Signal Controversy
Tue 12:43pm By The AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg joins Ashley Parker to discuss breaking the Signal story, the fallout, and more. Don’t miss this subscriber-only event on Thursday, April 3, at 11:30 a.m. ET.An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
Mon 10:14pm By Nick MiroffThe Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.Why Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About a Third Term
Mon 9:39am By Jonathan ChaitThe prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill.America’s Future Is Hungary
Mon 6:00am By Anne ApplebaumMAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.Steven Cheung Is the Voice of Trump
Mon 6:00am By Elaine GodfreyThe White House communications chief has a strategy: relentless aggression.The Retired J.P. Morgan Executive Tracking Trump’s Deportation Flights
Fri 12:10pm By Nick MiroffA CFO turned activist has become a go-to source for understanding the administration’s immigration crackdown.The Double Standard at the Center of the Signal Debacle
Thu 7:14pm By Isaac Stanley-BeckerAs senior officials deny wrongdoing, rank-and-file national-security personnel worry about the dangers if no one is held accountable.It’s Not Easy Being (Marjorie Taylor) Greene
Mar 26, 2025, 10:35 pm By Mark LeibovichA goofy Washington tradition devolves.Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal
Mar 26, 2025, 8:19 am By Jeffrey GoldbergThe administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.A Rare Moment of Bipartisan Disbelief
Mar 25, 2025, 7:40 pm By Mark LeibovichWashington gets a good old-fashioned scandal.Trump Goes After the Messenger
Mar 25, 2025, 6:35 pm By Jonathan LemireThe president is privately upset with the sloppiness of his advisers. Publicly, he’s focused on attacking the press.The Hollow Men
Mar 25, 2025, 8:00 am By George PackerIt takes a special talent to betray an entire worldview without missing a beat.The United States of Fear
Mar 24, 2025, 5:02 pm By Isaac Stanley-BeckerFor anyone who’s in the president’s crosshairs—or who could be—it’s the dominant emotion of Trump’s second term.The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
Mar 24, 2025, 12:06 pm By Jeffrey GoldbergU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
Mar 23, 2025, 8:00 am By Aziz HuqFor most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.Musk Comes for the ‘Third Rail of American Politics’
Mar 21, 2025, 11:21 am By Russell BermanDonald Trump promised to protect Social Security. Elon Musk didn’t.The Kennedy Center Performers Who Didn’t Cancel
Mar 21, 2025, 7:00 am By Marc NovicoffWhen does quitting count as resistance, and when is it surrender?Stephen Miller Has a Plan
Mar 19, 2025, 4:22 pm By Nick MiroffThe White House point person on immigration is pursuing a strategy that is bedeviling his opponents and could provoke a constitutional crisis.Even Tom Cole Is Defending DOGE
Mar 19, 2025, 9:00 am By Russell Berman“A Republican House is not going to chain down a Republican president.”Trump Gets a Taste of Putin’s Tactics
Mar 18, 2025, 7:30 pm By Jonathan LemireThe Russian leader is offering few concessions in negotiations over Ukraine. How hard is Trump willing to push for the peace he promises?The Ultimate Trump Story
Mar 17, 2025, 2:35 pm By Quinta JurecicThe president’s dangerous tendencies are now magnifying one another in a uniquely risky way.
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