Bloodshed
For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol—and resisted pleas to stop them.
For 187 harrowing minutes, the president watched his supporters attack the Capitol—and resisted pleas to stop them.
One America News, the far-right network whose fortunes and viewership rose amid the triumph and tumult of the Trump administration, has flourished with support from a surprising source: AT&T
John Shiffman Reuters Oct 2021 15min Permalink
A Capitol rioter tells his story from inside.
William Turton Bloomberg Jan 2021 Permalink
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic May 2020 40min Permalink
A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.
Aaron Gell Medium May 2020 20min Permalink
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election.
McKay Coppins The Atlantic Feb 2020 35min Permalink
An interesting side effect of reading the report is to feel that anyone who claims to have understood its arguments, purposes, and consequences within twenty-four or forty-eight hours of encountering it is likely untrustworthy.
Mark Greif n+1 Jul 2019 Permalink
Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.
Brian Hiatt Rolling Stone Aug 2018 15min Permalink
Outside a cookie shop in Houstons, a council member spied Trump’s name on a teenager’s shirt and yelled a few of the president’s worst words at her. Then the internet found out.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Jun 2018 20min Permalink
How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.
Steven Levy Wired Jun 2018 20min Permalink
For the Never Trumpers, “Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic. It is a moral test.”
Sam Tanenhaus Esquire Dec 2017 20min Permalink
“The specific dissonance of Trumpism—advocacy for discriminatory, even cruel, policies combined with vehement denials that such policies are racially motivated—provides the emotional core of its appeal. It is the most recent manifestation of a contradiction as old as the United States, a society founded by slaveholders on the principle that all men are created equal.”
Adam Serwer The Atlantic Nov 2017 50min Permalink
An immigrant on what happens when neighbors turn on each other:
"Every Bosnian I know had a friend, or even a family member, who flipped and betrayed the life they had shared until, in the early 1990s, the war started. My best high-school friend turned into a rabid Serbian nationalist and left his longtime girlfriend in Sarajevo so he could take part in its siege. My favorite literature professor became one of the main ideologues of Serbian fascism. Just last week, I talked to a Muslim man from Foča whose mother was repeatedly raped by his Serb friend, and whose brother was killed by their neighbor. Yugoslavia and Bosnia had provided a sense of societal stability for a couple of generations, which is why the betrayal was so shocking to so many of us."
Aleksandar Hemon Literary Hub Feb 2017 15min Permalink
Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jan 2017 10min Permalink
"There is a real danger here that this maneuver can harshly backfire, to the great benefit of Trump and to the great detriment of those who want to oppose him."
Glenn Greenwald The Intercept Jan 2017 10min Permalink
A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next.
Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Dec 2016 1h5min Permalink
For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world. What will happen in an age of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage?
Ian Buruma The New York Times Magazine Nov 2016 20min Permalink
Project Alamo, Trump’s digital marketing and media operation, is building a base for his post-election future.
Joshua Green, Sasha Issenberg Businessweek Oct 2016 20min Permalink