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What happens when the owner of one of the most important news organizations in the country decides that the journalists...

Every presidential election appears to pose one big question—who will win?—that is in fact made up of countless smaller questions:...

Donald Trump’s history of racism is breathtaking. His track record of prejudice is so prodigious that keeping all of the...

If Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. really do team up to “make America healthy again” from the White...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present, surface delightful treasures,...

If the presidential election has provided relief from anything, it has been the generative-AI boom. Neither Kamala Harris nor Donald...

When Shannon Coulter first started listening to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in August, she...

Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat in a tight race for a Senate seat, has been on the defensive about...

On Election Night, millions of Americans will watch anxiously as the ballot counts stream in. Most will be worried about...