Nixon Between the Lines
Alone in his study, ballpoint pen in hand, the president revealed himself in the margins of his books.
Andrew Ferguson
Andrew Ferguson is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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Photograph by Joel Barhamand for The Atlantic I Know What Makes Conventions So Maddening
And it’s not the air horns and vuvuzelas.
Alex Brandon / AP The Convention Has Finally Become What It Always Was
For decades, political conventions have adapted to every indignity that progress and technology could throw at them.
Bettmann / Getty Trump’s Attempt at an Un-Trumpian Image
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Win McNamee / Getty Christopher Buckley on Satire in the Age of Trump
“I think Trump is fair game for ridicule. Why do I think this? Because it drives him nuts.”
Getty / The Atlantic Leave Lincoln Out of It
The Lincoln Project partakes of the spirit of a famous Republican president—but he’s not its namesake.
The Atlantic Signs That Trump Was Furious in Tulsa
Watching the president read from a prompter is like watching a man slip into a straitjacket.
Sue Ogrocki / AP ‘Defund the Police’ Does Not Mean Defund the Police. Unless It Does.
Am I supposed to take it literally?
Scott Heins / Getty At the End of a Hellish Week, Trump Is a Happy Man
Spending public money—he often speaks of it as his own—always lifts his spirits.
Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump Tries to Sink Twitter, His Oldest Enabler
The president’s two strongest instincts stand pitted against each other: his need for attention and his need to punish enemies.
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