“Some generations get a nationally televised car chase featuring O. J. Simpson fleeing police in a white Bronco. Others get the communal adrenaline rush of frantically “CTRL-F”-ing a House Oversight Committee trove of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“Trump was always an unlikely champion for those on the right who believed in the Epstein conspiracy theories. The men were undeniably friends.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Are the Epstein files suddenly real?…All we know is that Trump wants us to stop talking about the subject. That’s usually what you want when the subject includes evidence that you have behaved in a manner beyond reproach.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Pope Leo XIV On a mission from God www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-...

“A party that champions government workers and the poor was willing to sacrifice them.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Former models for Donald Trump’s agency say they violated immigration rules and worked illegally.

As Trump’s deportation campaign escalated, the masks quickly turned officers and agents into a faceless, impersonal, undifferentiated goon squad. It’s a look that has long been associated with authoritarian regimes and secret police…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes Jonathan Chait. Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Air traffic in the U.S. could “slow to a trickle” if the federal government shutdown lingers into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned Sunday.” bit.ly/4hUArgq

“Most of Trump’s deportation campaign is inaccessible because after arrests are made, it is moving quickly, far from public view. And because it is targeting people who have spent an average of 16 years in the United States…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Every government shutdown is a game of a chicken between Democrats and Republicans, or sometimes between Congress and the White House. And every administration tries to use its power to squeeze opponents…” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“Turning private equity loose in our health care system kills people.” ~Sen. Elizabeth Warren www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Military commissaries could begin closing in early December if a continuing government shutdown continues, with up to 168 U.S. locations potentially affected. taskandpurpose.com/news/commiss...

“The Department of Homeland Security is adopting powerful new tools to monitor noncitizens. Privacy advocates are worried they erode privacy rights for immigrants and Americans alike. “ n.pr/3JKWJV5

“If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted. This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

“…the reality is that Mamdani’s victory says absolutely nothing about the wider appeal of his priorities. If anything, the context of his victory reveals the limits of his platform…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Greene is essentially doing to Trump what Trump did to the Republican Party of George W. Bush: She is recognizing the gaping void between the values of the party’s leaders and those of its followers, and ruthlessly exploiting it.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“Today, the supreme court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Zohran Mamdani will be the unlikeliest mayor in New York City history. A 34-year-old backbench state assemblyman and self-proclaimed democratic socialist, Mamdani ran on the promise of affordability and was declared the winner not long after polls closed tonight. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

“The onetime designated villain of the Iraq War had somehow mutated into a hero of the anti-Trump constitutional resistance. Had he changed? Or had they misjudged him?” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many of its GOATs are ghosts, that the former national pastime is easily dismissed as past its prime. It isn’t. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

“Trump has signaled that he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“It’s clear that AI is both drowning out and obscuring other stories about the wobbling American economy. That’s a concern. But even worse: What if AI’s promise for American business proves to be a mirage? What happens then?” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

“Base living—in the unofficial Trump Green Zone—has also become something of a double-edged status symbol among Trump officials.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“As the impact of the shutdown threatens to spread deeper into the country, Trump could soon confront the reality that when a crisis hits, the public often turns to the president for leadership—or for blame.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“Pritzker is currently a focal-point Democratic leader against the activist aggressions of the White House. One could make a case that a state-versus-federal discord of this magnitude has not existed since the civil-rights movement, or even the Civil War era.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

After 47 years of service, Paradise Cove will hold its final luau on New Year’s Eve. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/10/28/p...

In less than a year, President Donald Trump has drained many of the most important sources of American power: Unwinding the country’s alliances, Degrading its principles, Walling off its economy, and Subverting international institutions that serve its interests. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“As president, Trump has very little statutory power over elections, yet the office provides him with plenty of opportunities for chicanery. He also has powerful reasons to interfere next year.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“California is by far the Democratic Party’s best chance to cut into the GOP’s nationwide advantage.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“The old distinction between information and skill, between “knowing that” and “knowing how,” has grown blurry in the era of large language models.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Since SCOTUS opened the door to legalized gambling in 2018, and most states permitted people to wager on their phones, gambling scandals, once rare in sports, have become a new American pastime. And prop bets have proved particularly ripe for manipulation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“California Governor Gavin Newsom has filed a brief in support of a case before the Supreme Court, arguing that President Donald Trump’s tariff policies are unlawful.” www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom...

The administration’s language about deposing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has grown more threatening…that it would cooperate with Congress on its plans for military action only when “Maduro’s corpse is in U.S. custody.” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

“In the ballroom that will rise where the rubble now sits, tables will be set and sumptuous feasts will be offered. But who, and what, will be toasted there?” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

“As much of America stalls and sputters, President Donald Trump is forging ahead on a plan to remake the government’s budget without Congress’s assent.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Fueled by his own delusions of grandeur—and the dark fantasies of revenge that animate him—Trump delights in doctored videos.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“I came in like a wrecking ball I never hit so hard in love All I wanted was to break your walls…”🎵 youtu.be/My2FRPA3Gf8 Demolition of the East Wing façade Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

President Trump. As he had promised in 2015. Now a $300 MILLION BALLROOM BLITZ www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

People often say here that a cease-fire marks another kind of war—not of weapons, but of suffering. The war of the mind. The war of loss. The war of remembering. The war of reconstruction. A cease-fire means entering a fragile limbo between survival and recovery. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

“The point was not subtle: Trump wanted to mock and smear millions of Americans, literally depicting them covered in excrement, precisely so that none of his own supporters would want to join them.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“President Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“Professing love for Hitler is more than anti-Semitic—it’s antihuman. It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent. The texts degrade all of us.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“We work for the president of the United States,” a senior agency official who regularly deals with the OMB told me. But right now “it feels like we work for Russ Vought. He has centralized decision-­making power to an extent that he is the commander in chief.” www.propublica.org/article/russ...

“Donald Trump has derided NATO as an obsolete bunch of freeloaders for so long, it can be easy to forget that the transatlantic alliance remains the most powerful combined military force on Earth. And right now, it’s really acting like it.” www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...