Twenty-Four Hours of Authoritarianism
Donald Trump had a very busy Tuesday.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
Jim Watson / AFP / Getty What the Islamophobic Attacks on Mamdani Reveal
Rather than cement its new multiracial coalition, the MAGA movement seems almost desperate to break it apart.
Shuran Huang / The New York Times / Redux Why Won’t Zohran Mamdani Denounce a Dangerous Slogan?
The New York mayoral candidate’s defense of “Globalize the intifada” is very telling.
Adam Gray / Bloomberg / Getty The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise
The populists and the tech right competed to supply the GOP’s new policy. The president has picked the least-attractive ideas from each.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock. Are Liberals to Blame for the New McCarthyism?
Many leftists seem to think so.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their health-care cuts on the merits, congressional Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Chip Somodevilla / Getty The Coming Democratic Civil War
A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power.
Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic The Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American History
House Republicans voted to advance a bill that would offer lavish tax cuts for the rich while slashing benefits for the poor.
Kevin Dietsch / Getty Kristi Noem Should Probably Know What Habeas Corpus Is
But she doesn’t.
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Alex Wroblewski / AFP / Getty.
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