An Autopsy Report on Biden’s In-Office Decline
“Five people were running the country,” a political insider told the authors of the new book Original Sin. “And Joe Biden was at best a senior member of the board.”
What the Comfort Class Doesn’t Get
People with generational wealth control a society that they don’t understand.
The Power of a Good Suit
Readers respond to our March issue and more.
Polling Was Quietly Still Bad in 2024
After nearly a decade of fine-tuning, the industry still hasn’t figured out how to reach enough Donald Trump supporters.
The Subtlety of the Macho-Men SNL Sketch
Bad Bunny’s sketch about what two Latino men are really saying about their girlfriends reveals what people often miss across cultural barriers.
Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?
An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.
Read The Atlantic’s Interview With Donald Trump
A conversation with the president about executive power, Signalgate, and 24-karat gold
The Visionary of Trump 2.0
Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making.
A Defense Against Gaslighting Sociopaths
If you can recognize their signature move, then forewarned is forearmed.
A Week of Manufactured Trump Victories
Shashi Tharoor and the Trump grift machine
The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History
Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy