The Cruel Attack on USAID
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Valerie Plesch / The New York Times / Redux What Trump’s Finger-Pointing Reveals
Words, including the words of presidents, matter so very much.
Illustration by The Atlantic: Sources: Chen Mengtong / China News Service / Getty; Hu Yousong / Xinhua / Getty. Evangelicals Made a Bad Trade
Hitching the evangelical wagon to Donald Trump has meant unhitching it from the life and teachings of Jesus.
Scott McIntyre / The Washington Post / Getty No One Will Remember Jack Smith’s Report
But indifference to truth and honor and the rule of law has a way of catching up with a country.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Drew Angerer / Getty. An Astonishing Level of Dehumanization
There is no defense of those who celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson.
Stefani Reynolds / AFP / Getty Don’t Give Up on the Truth
Striking out against injustice is always right; it always matters.
Carrie Schreck / Redux How to Prevent the Worst From Happening
If Trump wins the presidency again, conservatism will be homeless, a philosophy without a party, for at least a generation.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. This Election Is Different
No election prior to the Trump era, regardless of the outcome, ever caused me to question the fundamental decency of America.
Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum The Republican Freak Show
Like the man who leads it, the GOP is not just incidentally grotesque. It is grotesque at its core.
lllustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Anna Moneymaker / Getty; Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Win McNamee / Getty; Scott Olson / Getty; Dustin Franz / Getty; Jason Mendez / Getty; Drew Angerer / Getty. Kamala Harris Broke Donald Trump
In their first face-to-face meeting, the Democratic nominee humiliated the former president.
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