What the Birthright Case Is Really About
Do we want to be the America of John C. Calhoun or Frederick Douglass?
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George Rinhart / Corbis / Getty Trashing American Allies Turns Out to Be Bad for National Security
How “America First” became “America Alone”
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Nic Antaya / Getty; Shutterstock. Gullible, Cynical America
The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time
Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty; Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg. Illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani / The Atlantic* How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account
Our national project of elite impunity
Illustration by Paul Spella / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Do Not Be Cynical About Jesse Jackson
He was never the caricature his critics wanted him to be.
Jean Louis Atlan / Getty The Real Reason ICE Agents Wear Masks
Face coverings may work less to protect federal agents from danger than to make it easier for them to do unconstitutional things.
Andrea Renault / STAR MAX / IPx / AP Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
Jack Califano for The Atlantic Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP / Getty. First the Shooting. Then the Lies.
The Trump administration has perfected the smear campaign.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Alex Kormann / The Minnesota Star Tribune / Getty.