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The Future of the American Idea

• Donald Trump Is Out. Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?

  “The First White President,” revisited

  • TA-NEHISI COATES
   
  • JANUARY 19, 2021

• America Can’t Exhale Just Yet

  Demonstrations across the country after the Capitol riot were small, but more violence may soon come.

  • ADAM HARRIS
   
  • JANUARY 19, 2021

• The Capitol Rioters Are Giving Insurrection a Bad Name

  Civil society cannot allow mistrust in institutions to become violent rebellion.

  • ETHAN ZUCKERMAN
   
  • JANUARY 19, 2021

• The Secret Service Is Bracing for Dangerous Times

  Any chance of a normal security environment for the president-elect evaporated during the Capitol siege.

  • MARC AMBINDER
   
  • JANUARY 19, 2021

• Deep Cleaning the White House Isn’t Really Necessary

  The key to guaranteeing staffers’ health and well-being is relatively simple.

  • ELAINE GODFREY
   
  • JANUARY 19, 2021

• The Coming Republican Amnesia

  How will the GOP recover from the Trump era? Pretend it never happened.

  • MCKAY COPPINS
   
  • JANUARY 18, 2021

• America’s Second-Worst Scenario

  So far, cumulative acts of civic virtue have saved the republic. But the constitutional order is still in danger.

  • BARTON GELLMAN
   
  • JANUARY 16, 2021

• Pramila Jayapal Is ‘Next-Level’ Angry

  The congresswoman tested positive for COVID-19 after sheltering with Republicans who refused to wear masks.

  • ELAINE GODFREY
   
  • JANUARY 15, 2021

• Mike Pence Has Nowhere to Go

  The vice president has no obvious place in GOP electoral politics.

  • PETER NICHOLAS
   
  • JANUARY 15, 2021

• Joe Biden’s Looming War on White Supremacy

  The insurrection could spur a federal-government crackdown on white-nationalist groups, as well as strengthen the case for systemic police reform.

  • RONALD BROWNSTEIN
   
  • JANUARY 15, 2021

• The Boogaloo Bois Prepare for Civil War

  As the FBI warns of violence, anti-government extremists are ready to get in on the chaos.

  • MICHAEL J. MOONEY
   
  • JANUARY 15, 2021

• The Big Story: America After Trump

  Atlantic writers will discuss the future of democracy after last week’s insurrection, live at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday.

  • JANUARY 13, 2021

• I Asked My Colleagues to Wear Masks. They Laughed.

  Delaware’s congresswoman thought she might die in the riot at the Capitol. Then her Republican colleagues mocked her for handing out masks while they sheltered together.

  • LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER
   
  • JANUARY 13, 2021

• Impeaching Trump Was an Act of Self-Defense

  In impeaching President Trump a second time, Democrats believe they’re acting to remove “a clear and present danger” not only to American citizens and democracy at large, but to themselves specifically.

  • RUSSELL BERMAN
   
  • JANUARY 13, 2021

• MAGA-land’s Favorite Newspaper

  How The Epoch Times became a pro-Trump propaganda machine in an age of plague and insurrection ​​​​​

  • SIMON VAN ZUYLEN-WOOD
   
  • JANUARY 13, 2021

• How a Well-Meaning Health Policy Created California’s Coronavirus Nightmare

  The state’s hyperefficient health-care system runs pretty well—unless a pandemic strikes.

  • OLGA KHAZAN
   
  • JANUARY 12, 2021

• Trump Rallies Were a Preview of the Capitol Attack

  Those following the president’s events around the country for the past four years were not surprised by the mob violence that unfolded in Washington.

  • PETER NICHOLAS
   
  • JANUARY 10, 2021

• It Was Supposed to Be So Much Worse

  And the threat to the U.S. government hasn’t passed.

  • ELAINE GODFREY
   
  • JANUARY 9, 2021

• Republicans Confront the Consequences of Their Doomsday Rhetoric

  The Capitol riot showed how the ominous tenor of contemporary GOP messaging could be fueling white conservatives’ extremism.

  • RONALD BROWNSTEIN
   
  • JANUARY 9, 2021

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