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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. The New MAGA World Order
This week’s Gulf tour revealed that Trump’s transactional foreign policy doesn’t lack values. It just has really bad ones.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
Tom Williams / AP China Called Trump’s Bluff
There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.
Anna Moneymaker / Getty The Partisan Mind Virus
Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.
Matt Rourke / AP The Godfather of the Woke Right
A 2011 book by Pat Buchanan shows the deep roots of today’s right-wing illiberalism.
Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Sources: Bettmann / Getty; Wally McNamee / Corbis / Getty; Steve Liss / Getty.
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