September 14, 2025 How Originalism Killed the Constitution Jill Lepore The Atlantic A radical legal philosophy has undermined the process of constitutional evolution.
September 3, 2025 The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler Yair Rosenberg The Atlantic A growing constituency on the right wants America to unlearn the lessons of World War II.
August 31, 2025 Donald Trump Won’t Be Saved by Maps David Dayen The Atlantic Gerrymandering in red states is predicated on Republicans holding Trump’s support in 2024, particularly from Latinos. That could be a bad bet.
August 24, 2025 Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad Clint Smith The Atlantic The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
August 13, 2025 Vladimir Putin Could Be Laying a Trap Jonathan Lemire The Atlantic Donald Trump badly wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine. What is he willing to give up?
August 9, 2025 America Is Living in a Climate-Denial Fantasy Zoë Schlanger The Atlantic On climate, the U.S. and the rest of the planet are now in “completely separate worlds.”
August 3, 2025 How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline Franklin Foer The Atlantic The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
July 27, 2025 Sunday Science: Trump’s ‘Gold Standard’ for Science Manufactures Doubt David Michaels, Wendy Wagner The Atlantic By emphasizing scientific uncertainty above other values, political appointees can block any regulatory action they want to.
July 20, 2025 The Court’s Liberals Are Trying To Tell Americans Something Aziz Huq The Atlantic Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.
July 2, 2025 They Didn’t Have To Do This Jonathan Chait The Atlantic By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
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