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The Atlantic Politics Daily: Who Americans Now Leave Exposed
Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics(Martyn Aim / laif / Redux)As Turkey moves in on northeastern Syria after the removal of American troops, exposing America’s Kurdish partners in the fight against...
Attacks on the Whistle-Blower Miss the Point
In August, an intelligence analyst filed a whistle-blower complaint alleging President Donald Trump pressured President Vlodomyr Zelensky to open an investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.That allegation has since been substantiated by independent reporting, a summary of the call released by the White House,...
Trump Goes All In On Obstruction
Over the last few days, Democrats have been warning with more and more urgency that the Trump administration’s response to an impeachment inquiry might represent obstruction of justice.White House Counsel Pat Cipollone explained the administration’s view in a letter Tuesday to House Democratic leaders. The missive sprawls over eight...
Mick Mulvaney’s Uncertain Fate
A few weeks back, a Trump-administration official told me that the White House’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, would soon be “acting” no more. Mulvaney had won the job for good, and Donald Trump was about to make him permanent chief, this person said. One week ago, another person close to the president came to me with a different...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: This Was Not a Trump-Kim Summit
Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics(Philip O’Connor / Reuters)Here’s one big foreign-policy story rumbling at a lower decibel than the chaos of the White House’s removal of U.S. troops...
Joe Biden Won’t Be the Last Target
President Trump has now urged both Ukraine and China to launch investigations of the Biden family. More than 60 percent of Americans disapprove of this behavior. But millions of Trump-aligned voters don’t seem to think he did anything wrong. They correctly perceive that Hunter Biden showed poor moral character by accepting a large salary to...
The White House Abused the Classification System
In 1975, Congress established the first intelligence oversight committees. The Watergate break-in had prompted a constitutional crisis, and in the course of investigating Watergate, Congress realized it had an urgent need to review classified documents and activities in order to serve as a check on a president who was willing to use the...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Sticks and Stones (and Tweets)
Comments or questions? Send us an email anytime. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We appreciate your continued support for our journalism. Today in Politics(Illustration: Paul Spella; Michael Heiman / Getty)President Donald Trump faces backlash after conflicting messages about withdrawing American troops from positions in...
What Top Military Officers Really Think About Trump
For most of the past two decades, American troops have been deployed all over the world—to about 150 countries. During that time, hundreds of thousands of young men and women have experienced combat, and a generation of officers have come of age dealing with the practical realities of war. They possess a deep well of knowledge and experience. For...
How Trump’s Brazenness Allows Him to Get Away With It
Last Thursday, Donald Trump said something that, on its face, seemed inexplicably self-defeating. Already under attack for having asked Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, he publicly asked China to do the same. This time there was no whistleblower forcing Trump’s hand. Having already transgressed the once sacrosanct principle that foreign...
