Adam Serwer
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Arsh Raziuddin / The Atlantic The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
The pandemic has exposed the bitter terms of our racial contract, which deems certain lives of greater value than others.
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Paul Spella / The Atlantic* The Sinister Logic of Trump’s Immigration Freeze
The White House is closing pathways to citizenship while maintaining a flow of exploitable immigrant labor.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty The Coronavirus Has Not Halted Trump’s Power Grab
Both the president and his party are committed to a long-term project of impunity from both the law and the electorate.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters We Can Finally See the Real Source of Washington Gridlock
America’s political dysfunction is rooted not in ideological polarization, but in the Republican Party’s conviction that it alone should be allowed to govern.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself
The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.
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Reuters Donald Trump’s Cult of Personality Did This
The autocratic political culture that has propped up the Trump administration has left the nation entirely unprepared for an economic and public-health calamity.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Fear of a Counterrevolution
The generational divide in the Democratic primary reflects divergent experiences.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / ... The First Days of the Trump Regime
The president has interpreted the Republican-controlled Senate’s vote to acquit as a writ of absolute power.
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Bettmann / Getty The Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts
A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty The �Russia Hoax’ Is a Hoax
A report by the Department of Justice inspector general debunks the claims that the investigation into political interference by the Kremlin was a left-wing conspiracy to depose the president.
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Anna Moneymaker / The New York T​imes / ... The War-Crimes President
When violence is directed at those Trump’s supporters hate and fear, they see such excesses not as crimes but as virtues.
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Erin Scott / Reuters Trump’s Crime Against America
The president’s offense is abusing his power to stay in office, not disputing Ukraine policy.
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Tom Brenner / Reuters Trump’s White-Nationalist Vanguard
The emails of a key presidential aide show an extremist ideology influencing policy in the White House.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters It’s Not the Greed—It’s the Inequality
The Democratic Party’s establishment is in denial about the ways in which concentrated riches are warping society and contributing to the disunity it seeks to heal.
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Illustration: Mendelsund / Munday; Bettmann / Getty Civility Is Overrated
The gravest danger to American democracy isn’t an excess of vitriol—it’s the false promise of civility.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters The Trump Infallibility Doctrine
The president cannot fail—he can only be failed.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters So What If the Whistle-Blower Has a Political Motive?
Trump’s conduct has been substantiated by his own statements.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Mad King’s Enablers
As Trump’s demands grow ever more erratic, democracy rests on the willingness of bureaucrats to ignore the democratically elected chief executive.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Why Republicans Aren't Turning on Trump
The Framers underestimated the extent to which a demagogue might convince his supporters that the president and the people are one and the same.
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Mike Blake / Reuters Let Them Fight
Democratic primary voters should have a chance to evaluate how their potential standard-bearers fare against hostile criticism.
