Section: The Atlantic (USA)
The Only Thing Trump Fears Is Consequences
“You people ought to be ashamed of yourselves,” Donald Trump scolded reporters on Monday at the United Nations, as they asked him about bullying Ukraine to investigate Vice President Joe Biden’s son’s work there.It’s a classic do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do moment, since Trump himself doesn’t demonstrate any sense of shame at...
The Atlantic Politics Daily: Greta Thunberg Makes Adults Squirm
We’re trying something new with The Atlantic’s signature politics newsletter. 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 PoliticsThe Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg watches as U.S. President...
Trump Admits Everything
By the end of last week, rumors were swirling about what President Donald Trump might or might not have done to elicit a whistle-blower complaint about his conversations with a foreign leader. A rough outline had emerged: Trump had pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate business dealings of the Democratic presidential candidate and...
What Would Jeremy Corbyn Mean for Britain’s Foreign Policy?
BRIGHTON, England—Things are not all right here in Britain. Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservatives have lost their majority, and with it their ability to govern; Parliament has been suspended; and the country is weeks away from crashing out of the European Union, its closest neighbor and largest trading partner, without a withdrawal deal.In...
The Press Is Embracing False Equivalence—Again
If you’ve paid any attention to press retrospectives on the 2016 election, you’ve seen the term false equivalence. It refers to the mismatch between a long-standing procedural instinct of the press and the current realities of the Era of Trump.Under normal circumstances, the press’s strong preference is for procedural balance....
If This Isn’t Impeachable, Nothing Is
The president of the United States reportedly sought the help of a foreign government against an American citizen who might challenge him for his office. This is the single most important revelation in a scoop by the Wall Street Journal, and if it is true, then President Trump should be impeached and removed from office immediately.Until now,...
The Problem With the Whistleblower System
“I don’t think that [Edward] Snowden was a patriot,” Barack Obama said in 2013 after the former NSA contractor leaked revelations of mass surveillance to a small group of journalists.Obama’s argument then—one that has been made many times since—was that Snowden had legal channels available to him to address his concerns, which would...
We’re Now in the Hot Zone for Impeachment
Few Democratic leaders have seemed less eager to impeach President Donald Trump than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. She’s warned that the public doesn’t want it and the Senate would never go for it. But a rolling series of disclosures may force her to recalculate the politics. A report in The Wall Street Journal today, quickly confirmed...
It’s Happening in Plain Sight
Washington is a place where incredible amounts of time and effort are spent to prove what’s already obvious.This week’s drama over a whistle-blower complaint about President Donald Trump is only the latest example. The House Intelligence Committee is embroiled in a fight with the acting director of national intelligence, and by...
Imagine If Obama Had Done This
For a man who once characterized Donald Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” worthy of being ISIS’s “man of the year,” Lindsey Graham took a rather tame jab at the president recently. The Republican senator, now one of Trump’s top allies in Congress, argued on Tuesday that the Iranian government had detected...
