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Donald Trump has won the public embrace of virtually every Republican currently in federal elected office. In private, however, at...

Donald Trump will begin his second term as president the same way he began his first—with Republicans controlling both the...

The announcements of Donald Trump’s early picks for his administration have been like the limbo: The bar keeps dropping and...

One month to the day before the 2024 presidential election, The New York Times reported on a new analysis of...

Over the past several years, courageous Americans have risked their careers and perhaps even their liberty in an effort to...

The Donald Trump who campaigned in 2024 would not have won in 2016. It’s not just that his rhetoric is...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of...

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day,...

Dear James,What are we, modern humans, to make of work? How can I do it without so much anxiety, but...

The panic set in just before midnight last Tuesday. “She’s in trouble,” one U.S. intelligence officer fretted as Kamala Harris’s...