The Good News About Trump’s Tariffs
Authoritarian leaders are most dangerous when they’re popular. Wrecking the economy is unlikely to broaden Trump’s support.
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Xinhua / Hu Yousong / Redux Why Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About a Third Term
The prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill.
Samuel Corum / Sipa / Getty Why DOGE Could Actually Increase the Deficit
Some of Musk’s haphazard cuts will produce tiny savings in terms of salary while forfeiting much larger ones down the road, costing the government money.
Credit: Samuel Corum / Sipa / Getty The Worst Thing a MAGA Warrior Can Do
The response to Signalgate reveals a disjuncture between the seriousness with which MAGA treats foreign enemies and perceived domestic ones.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Win McNamee / Getty. Why the COVID Reckoning Is So One-Sided
Liberals are recognizing they made mistakes. Conservatives are making fun of them for that.
MirageC / Getty Anti-Semitism Is Just a Pretext
It’s the Trump administration, not Columbia, that has done nothing to confront anti-Semitism in its own ranks.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Kent Nishimura / Bloomberg / Getty; Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty. Trump Drops the Mask
The president’s latest positions on the Russia-Ukraine war reveal that he is indifferent to ongoing slaughter—indeed, he is willing to increase it.
Andrew Harnik / Getty What Does Dan Bongino Believe?
The new FBI deputy director has written that his own agency perpetrated “the greatest scandal in American political history.”
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty. The Simple Explanation for Why Trump Turned Against Ukraine
The president’s defenders ignore one possibility: He just likes Putin.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Andrew Harnik / Getty. The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky
He simply likes Vladimir Putin better.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty.
