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There’s Never Going to Be a Clear Standard for Impeachable Offenses
And that means it’s Congress’s job to set boundaries around presidential power.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"If congressional judgment is the unavoidable filter through which America as a nation discerns presidential wrong, Congress’s refusal to responsibly exercise that judgment is guaranteed to distort the country’s perception of presidential power..."
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The Sexism Is Getting Sneakier
Is Elizabeth Warren overly “angry”? The media are just asking questions.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Americans are accustomed, still, to extremely sanitized depictions of women’s empowerment."
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Why the Trolls Booed at Don Jr.’s Event
The forces of hatred that Trump stoked to benefit himself politically are spiraling out of control.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Few events better illustrate the complex interplay of ideologies, tactics, and hypocrisies that are influencing the right’s youngest activists...”
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‘We Might As Well Go Down Fighting’
As Hong Kong descends into chaos, its protesters keep sounding a familiar theme.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"We cannot give up because if we do, there will be no future for us anyway. We might as well go down fighting.”
Read @zeynep's latest, a dispatch from Hong Kong
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What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Abortion
Facing the best arguments on the other side
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Adrienne LaFrance
"I thought about many women while I was writing this essay. The two girls my mother had watched die, all the women who endured Lysol abortions."
This is a remarkable essay. @CaitlinPacific's latest
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How America Ends
A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?
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Adrienne LaFrance
"When a group that has traditionally exercised power comes to believe that its eclipse is inevitable, and that the destruction of all it holds dear will follow, it will fight to preserve what it has—whatever the cost."
This is important, by @YAppelbaum
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Introducing a New Look for The Atlantic
A conversation with the magazine’s creative director, Peter Mendelsund, about our bold new design
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Adrienne LaFrance
A smart conversation between @TheAtlantic's editor in chief @JeffreyGoldberg and our creative director @mendelsund about the history of The (162-year-old!) Atlantic and our redesign, launched today
55h
The Magic of Fall Colors
Bundle up, maybe grab a mug of hot cider, and enjoy this batch of recent fall photos.
The Slow-Boil Revolt
Retired senior military officers are growing more concerned that the Trump administration doesn’t want their advice—and they’re struggling with how much they can say publicly.
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Adrienne LaFrance
Retired General Joseph Dunford to @kgilsinan and @LeahFeiger: “For the U.S. military, being apolitical is a critical element of civilian control of the military—an absolute in a democracy. The alternative is a military dictatorship.”
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Trump Is MAGA-fying the National Medal of Arts
Among the president’s new picks: the actor Jon Voight—who’s a fan of his—and the U.S. military bands
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Adrienne LaFrance
Oh look, @PeterAtlantic got a hold of the president's list of recipients for the National Medal of Arts. Trump opted not to recognize any contributions in dance, theater, or literature.
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Will the Generals Ever Crack?
Retired senior military officers tend to avoid weighing in on politics. But not always.
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Adrienne LaFrance
The definitive list of which retired senior military officers have said what—and who's gone farthest in criticizing the president
3d
How to Make a Website
wikiHow embodies an alternative history of the internet, and an interesting possibility for its future.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“If you’re under 25, you learned a lot of stuff on wikiHow. A lot of the questions you asked wikiHow were the things you were too embarrassed to ask anyone else.”
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Nikki Haley’s Audacious Bet
The former South Carolina governor’s new book is a gamble that the future of the Republican Party looks a lot like Trump.
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Adrienne LaFrance
"Every ambitious national-level Republican is building the rest of his or her career on the assumption that come 2024, the Trump loyalists will continue to run the show."
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Joe Biden Is Schrödinger’s Candidate
The former vice president still appears to be the Democratic front-runner. So why does everyone say his campaign is doomed?
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Biden’s campaign lives in a dual reality, like Schrödinger’s cat, where the former vice president is at once being written off as finished and yet still a front-runner in most national and state polls...”
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A Bloomberg Presidential Run Comes Down to One Question
How much do votes cost?
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Adrienne LaFrance
Here's a thing one of @MikeBloomberg's advisers said to @IsaacDovere last night: "Unlike the president, Mike’s *really* a billionaire.”
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All Art Is Political
An artist’s job is to tell the truths we can’t ignore.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“At the end of the day, our job as artists is to tell the truth as we see it. If telling the truth is an inherently political act, so be it.” @Lin_Manuel’s first @TheAtlantic byline
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Sorry, Not Sorry
Why public figures stopped apologizing
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Adrienne LaFrance
“All that can go wrong when a leader is too proud to admit to his own errant humanity.”
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We Are Running Out of Air
News images from New Delhi seem cut from an apocalyptic outbreak film.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“Flights are canceled and schools closed. Car owners are limited to driving only on certain days. Construction is stalled, and hospitals are flooded with disease, as they will be flooded with chronic effects in coming decades.”
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I Sold Political Ads for Google. Banning Them Won’t Work.
Tech companies can help fix what’s wrong with digital political advertising. Instead, Twitter is declaring the problem insoluble.
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Adrienne LaFrance
“There is simply no reasonable way to enforce a ban like this... Partisans will continue to decry ads with messages they don’t like—the only difference is that they’ll be arguing over whether the ad’s content is political, rather than whether it’s true.”
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The 'Today' Show Betrayed Women
Why the allegations against Matt Lauer have disgusted and unsettled me like few other stories in the #MeToo era