Section: The Atlantic (USA)
What the Whistle-Blower’s Memo Taught Me
Smoking guns are the stuff of spy movies. In real-life intelligence-gathering, they are exceptionally rare. That’s why the business of intelligence typically requires collecting and analyzing fragments of information—putting together secret nuggets with unclassified information—to try to make sense of complex reality. If nothing else, the...
Ukraine Fears Becoming a Partisan American Political Issue
When Donald Trump became president in 2017, Ukrainian leaders were much calmer about the change than their counterparts in many other parts of the world. With a war raging in the east of the country, Ukrainians were less concerned with the values of the new president than with ensuring that American aid to their country continued to flow. Trump...
Radio Atlantic: Amy Klobuchar, Live at The Atlantic Festival
Subscribe to Radio Atlantic: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher (How to Listen)Listen to Edward-Isaac Dovere interview Amy Klobuchar on Radio Atlantic.Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota has been thinking a lot about James Madison over the last few days. With House Democrats officially launching an impeachment inquiry, she’s been coming...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Rudy Awakening
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(ALEX WONG / GETTY / THE ATLANTIC)It must be nice to have Rudy Giuliani on your side. The president’s personal lawyer has found himself ensnared in the latest—and...
Trump’s Intelligence Chief Didn’t Make Anyone Happy
If President Donald Trump thought his handpicked choice to lead the nation’s intelligence community would unconditionally have his back before Congress, he discovered today he was sorely mistaken.Joseph Maguire, the acting director of national intelligence, was the first in what Democrats hope will be a line of Trump administration...
Adam Schiff’s Last Laugh (For Now)
For months on end, Representative Adam Schiff waged an often-lonely quest, subject to the mockery of his Republican colleagues and second-guessing from skeptics, as he doggedly pursued allegations that President Donald Trump had welcomed the interference of a foreign power in an American election.The stunning revelation that Trump asked the...
Rudy Giuliani: ‘You Should Be Happy for Your Country That I Uncovered This’
When I last saw Rudy Giuliani for lunch, at the Trump International Hotel in Washington four weeks ago, his most pressing concern was that he had been locked out of his Instagram account. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City and current personal attorney to President Donald Trump, had a young woman named Audra, who told me she had won the...
A Shared Text, but No Shared Reality
Did President Trump commit an offense that the Framers would regard as impeachable in his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky?A non-verbatim memo describing the call has been available since yesterday. But a common text has done little to create consensus. Indeed, no question is more hotly contested in Washington. And rival...
The Risks of Impeachment Are Overblown
For months, the biggest hurdle for Democrats pushing the House to open impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump was the party leadership’s concern that such a process would politically endanger the members at the far edge of their majority, especially the 31 representing districts that voted for the president in 2016.But there’s...
The Whistle-Blower’s Explosive Allegations
President Trump and many of his aides engaged in a months-long effort to strongarm the Ukrainian government into discrediting his political rivals, then worked extensively to cover up the evidence of their wrongdoing, according to a whistle-blower complaint released Thursday.The document shows that a huge range of officials throughout the...
