Trump’s Epstein Answers Are Getting Worse
He’s blaming Obama and calling the scandal “boring.”
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Illustration by The Atlantic* Why Trump Can’t Make the Epstein Story Go Away
His brainwashing powers are finite.
Photo-illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Aaron Schwartz / CNP / Bloomberg / Getty; Patrick McMullan / Getty; fotograzia / Getty; FBI Memo / Department of Justice. The Man Who Thinks Medicaid Cuts Won’t Cut Medicaid
In Kevin Hassett, the Trump administration has picked an especially unfortunate spokesperson.
Anna Moneymaker / Getty Twenty-Four Hours of Authoritarianism
Donald Trump had a very busy Tuesday.
Jim Watson / AFP / Getty They Didn’t Have to Do This
By passing Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, congressional Republicans have talked themselves into an incomprehensibly reckless plan.
Jim Watson / AFP / Getty What the Islamophobic Attacks on Mamdani Reveal
Rather than cement its new multiracial coalition, the MAGA movement seems almost desperate to break it apart.
Shuran Huang / The New York Times / Redux Why Won’t Zohran Mamdani Denounce a Dangerous Slogan?
The New York mayoral candidate’s defense of “Globalize the intifada” is very telling.
Adam Gray / Bloomberg / Getty The Republican Megabill’s Horrible Compromise
The populists and the tech right competed to supply the GOP’s new policy. The president has picked the least-attractive ideas from each.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Shutterstock. Are Liberals to Blame for the New McCarthyism?
Many leftists seem to think so.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their health-care cuts on the merits, congressional Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
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