McKay Coppins
Staff writer, . Author of THE WILDERNESS. “Sort of handsome” - Donald J. Trump.
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What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Death Means for America
Russell Berman - The Atlantic 4d 6 tweets
The Supreme Court vacancy will surely inflame an already-angry nation.
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McKay Coppins “It will surely inflame a deeply polarized country already riven by a deadly pandemic, a steep economic downturn, and civil unrest in its major cities.” 4d
Sufjan Stevens’s Problem With America
Spencer Kornhaber - The Atlantic 6d 2 tweets
The acclaimed singer was once famous for mythologizing the U.S. Now his “bossy and bitchy” new album expresses discomfort with the country.
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McKay Coppins I found this piece about Sufjan Stevens' evolution from optimistic mythologizer of America to disenchanted, world-weary curmudgeon (all his words!) surprisingly poignant. 5d
Northeastern University
Facebook.com 370d 4 tweets
Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 114,198 likes · 3,412 talking about this. Welcome to Northeastern University’s official Facebook page!
The Upshot on Today’s Polls
Nate Cohn - Nytimes.com 6d 10 tweets
Sean McElwee Is Begging the Left to Grow Up
Elaine Godfrey - The Atlantic 6d 23 tweets
The progressive pollster has a simple message for his compatriots: Rigid doctrinarianism doesn’t win elections.
McKay Coppins . is an entertaining guide through intra-left politics, and you should follow her! 6d
McKay Coppins "The agenda items that were supported by more than half of respondents included clean water, paid family leave, generic drug licensing, and free two-year college. (Abolishing ICE, meanwhile, ranked among the 10 least popular ideas.)" 6d
Why Isn’t Trump Trying to Win?
Derek Thompson - The Atlantic 6d 5 tweets
The president is bizarrely indifferent to helping the weak economy.
Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’
Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic 8d 38 tweets
In his first interview, a key witness in the impeachment trial says Trump goes out of his way to try to please the Russian president.
McKay Coppins "His fame, all of the controversy, the demolition of his military career are owed to a single telephone call." gets the first post-impeachment interview with Alexander Vindman 8d
The surprise religious group that could decide Trump's fate
POLITICO 9d 7 tweets
Latter-day Saints had been among the most reliably Republican voting blocs — until Trump took over the party.
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McKay Coppins A good summary of the Biden and Trump campaigns’ efforts to court Mormon voters 9d
Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump
Rosie Gray - BuzzFeed News 11d 40 tweets
The venture capitalist and Facebook board member staked his reputation on a Trump presidency. Now what does he have to show for it?
McKay Coppins A story that captures a lot about this era: Peter Thiel Met With The Racist Fringe As He Went All In On Trump 11d
Fake News and Social Media Disinformation
Eventbrite 11d 1 tweets
Social media has become an indispensable tool for political campaigning and news delivery, but it's also used for nefarious purposes. How?
McKay Coppins Next week, I'll be talking about the 2020 disinformation wars with , , and . You can watch from anywhere (and I think you're going to want to). 11d
Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake
Local 742d 8 tweets
TOPEKA, KS—Feeling helpless in the wake of the horrible Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed thousands, Christine Pearson baked a cake and decorated it like an American flag Monday.
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McKay Coppins Lots of people are sharing moving, important pieces of 9/11 journalism today. For some reason, this piece from The Onion still gets me every time. 11d
The Constitution Counted My Great-Great-Grandfather as Three-Fifths of a Free Person
The Atlantic 12d 18 tweets
Here’s why I love it anyway.
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McKay Coppins “To understand and embrace the centrality of compromise to the sustainability of constitutional democracy, one needs to be able to distinguish between good and bad compromises.” 12d
Robert Gehrke: Frustrated with Trump, these LDS women are calling for change, but will it matter?
The Salt Lake Tribune 12d 4 tweets
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McKay Coppins There are 180,000 Latter-day Saint voters in Arizona, a state Trump won in 2016 by just 90,000 votes. Utah is likely out of reach for Dems, but Trump's underperformance with Mormon women is still worth keeping an eye on. 12d
The Atlantic gained 20,000 subscribers after Trump dismissed it as a 'dying' magazine
CNN 13d 6 tweets
President Trump wrote The Atlantic off as a "dying" magazine last week after it published an explosive story about him allegedly disparaging Americans who died in war.
McKay Coppins “Since introducing a paywall a year ago, The Atlantic has added 325,000 paid subscribers. More than 20,000 of those new subscribers signed up just over the past weekend” 13d
Trump’s ‘plane loaded with thugs’ appears to be a Salt Lake City flight with Black Lives Matters protesters
The Salt Lake Tribune 16d 5 tweets
President Donald Trump raised some eyebrows earlier this week when he claimed a plane “loaded with thugs wearing dark uniforms” flew into Washington, D.C., recently as part of his claim that shadowy groups were controlling Democratic presidential...
McKay Coppins Missed this earlier: Seems like that "plane loaded with thugs wearing dark uniforms" that Trump invoked last week may have been... a flight from Utah with some Black Lives Matter protesters on it. 14d
Actually, Voting Is Pretty Safe
Russell Berman - The Atlantic 14d 11 tweets
Experts now say the health risk of casting an in-person ballot is relatively low. Will Democrats tell their voters that?
McKay Coppins Voting in person during the coronavirus pandemic is about as safe as going to the grocery store, reports. 14d
The Next Reconstruction
The Atlantic 14d 33 tweets
The United States has its best opportunity in 150 years to belatedly fulfill its promise as a multiracial democracy.
Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as 'losers,' 'suckers'
AP NEWS 19d 8 tweets
DELRAY BEACH, FLa. (AP) — A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed,...
McKay Coppins "A senior Defense Department official with firsthand knowledge of events and a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer who was told about Trump’s comments confirmed some of the remarks to The Associated Press, including the 2018 cemetery comments." 18d
The Atlantic
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Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
Jeffrey Goldberg - The Atlantic 19d 206 tweets
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
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McKay Coppins Of all the astonishing details in this story, the kicker may be the one that sticks with me the longest: 19d