Janay Kingsberry is a staff writer at The Atlantic covering politics, culture, and power in Washington. Her reporting examines institutional battles, presidential authority, and the symbolic…
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Trump's administration is rewriting federal historic-preservation rules to speed up construction of a controversial 250-foot Triumphal Arch in Washington, potentially reshaping monument approvals nationwide while bypassing…
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AI's water use sparks fierce debate between doomers and dismissers. The truth: aggregate numbers hide local vulnerabilities, and closed-loop cooling trades water for electricity. It depends…
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The AAA president dismissed the binary sex position as nonsensical yet admitted not understanding what scholars advocating for it actually mean—a gap that contradicts anthropology's core…
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A staff writer at The Atlantic since 2010, Conor Friedersdorf examines contradictions in how power operates, from media accountability to political populism. His skeptical approach interrogates…
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Quinta Jurecic is a staff writer at The Atlantic covering politics, democracy, and the rule of law. Previously a fellow at Brookings and senior editor at…
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Todd Blanche's accidental admission at his confirmation hearing—"I'm his lawyer"—exposed what three months as acting attorney general had already made plain: Trump has dismantled the post-Watergate…
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Jonathan Lemire has covered the White House without interruption since 2016. Inside the beat reporting and bestselling book that map how power operates.
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Trump publicly overruled his own DHS, ordering ICE to resume vehicle stops a day after a memo suspended them following two fatal officer shootings.
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Rose Horowitch of The Atlantic reports on how AI, grade inflation, and eroding trust are breaking the systems that credential American workers.
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