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The Election That Could Break America
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
The election that could break America, pro-Trump militant groups, niche sports and Ivy League admissions, and how China is rewriting global rules. Plus the last exit before autocracy, the making of Malcolm X, agony aunts, pandemic nesting, the Jefferson Bible, Kamala Harris’s ambition, British police shows, and more.
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him?
Preserving American democracy in a moment of peril
An Atlantic investigation reveals who they are and what they might do on Election Day.
Where the desperation of late-stage meritocracy is so strong, you can smell it
While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order.
Understanding the humanity, and the communities, that shaped the brilliant, troubled, selfish, generous, sincere radical
America survived one Trump term. It wouldn’t survive a second.
Donald Trump is slowly making the U.S. into a likeness of the countries Latino refugees have been fleeing.
An illustrated guide to 14 of the president’s associates
If we’re going to be inside, it might as well be the inside we want.
By talking plainly about her qualifications, Harris embodies progress. Will it work?
A warning from a 1957 film
Photographs at the intersection of race, gender, and work
The president preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
Adam Neumann is out of his WeWork job, but entrepreneurs will surely imitate him.
When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime.
On how we know—and how we learn—what to fear
Readers respond to our September 2020 cover story and more.
Taking pleasure in others’ pain as a reader of the advice column