The Senate Exists for a Reason
These four Trump picks should be stopped.
Tom Nichols
Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and an author of the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, where he taught for 25 years, and an instructor at the Harvard Extension School. He has served as a legislative aide in the Massachusetts House and the U.S. Senate. He writes about international security, nuclear weapons, Russia, and the challenges to democracy in the United States and around the world—along with occasional contrarian views on popular culture. His books include The Death of Expertise and Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault From Within on Modern Democracy. He is also a five-time undefeated Jeopardy champion.
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The Senate can stop her.
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And Trump wants to bypass the Senate for some of his future appointees—raising concerns about who’s next.
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Those who expect that Donald Trump will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised.
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Last night he simulated oral sex in public.
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The U.S. government seems to think he’s too big to fail.
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The former president’s mental coherence continues to unravel in public.
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