The Vance Warning
Trump’s running mate is a polished debater—but he still left three big tells about the danger he’d be in the White House.
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J. D. Vance put a sheen on Trumpism, and Tim Walz’s niceness unwittingly helped him succeed.
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Craig Unger’s career was nearly destroyed when he investigated a possible election conspiracy. Three decades later, he says he’s got the goods.
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It’s too late for the president to abolish the death penalty. But he can do this.
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Illustration by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
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The singer-guitarist MJ Lenderman has been hailed as his genre’s next big thing—probably because he’s offering more of the same.
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History will show the consequences of Khamenei’s decision to save face.
Illustration by Allison Zaucha / The Atlantic. Sources: Chip Somodevilla / Getty; Leah Millis / Reuters J. D. Vance Tries to Rewrite History
In the vice-presidential debate, the Republican claimed that Trump “peacefully gave over power on January 20.”
The Dishonesty of the Abortion Debate
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Inside the year-long American effort to release the hostages, end the fighting in Gaza, and bring peace to the Middle East
Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro* Gandhi Interrogated: An Interview
“But even if destruction is the end, I believe that it is better than what is offered us. A nation cannot attain freedom with the alien in the country.”
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In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual. (From 2023)
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“The anger comes first. The shopping for the cause comes next.”
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I mean, it’s one kidney. What could it cost?
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Autocrats dump their democratic allies and keep the company of kleptocrats.
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