Tag Archives: The Atlantic

THE BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse. By Anne Applebaum/ The Atlantic/ November 15, … Continue reading

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Donald Trump Is a Broken Man

In another time, in a different circumstance, there would perhaps be room to pity such a person. By Peter Wehner/ Atlantic/ July 21, 2020   LEON NEAL / GETTY The most revealing answer from Donald Trump’s interview with Fox News … Continue reading

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Clueless About Coronavirus

The Strongest Evidence Yet That America Is Botching Coronavirus Testing By Robinson Meyer and Alexis C. Madrigal/ The Atlantic/ March 6, 2020   “I don’t know what went wrong,” a former CDC chief told The Atlantic. It’s one of the … Continue reading

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Unprecedented Election Cheating

The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election By MacKay Coppins/ The Atlantic/ February 10, 2020   One day last fall, I sat down to create a … Continue reading

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A Gangster in the White House

By David Frum/ The Atlantic/ December 28, 2019 Amid a two-day binge of post-Christmas rage-tweeting, President Donald Trump retweeted the name of the CIA employee widely presumed to be the whistle-blower in the Ukraine scandal. On Thursday night, December 26, … Continue reading

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