In the years I worked for him, Jimmy Carter was always the same: disciplined, funny, enormously intelligent, and deeply spiritual.
The president took a tired form and found a way to make it fresh.
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This is the latest installment in a series that began back in...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. My wife, Deb, has written about the concept of “Big Littl...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Over the weekend, this space held the third installment in t...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The U.S. Senate’s abdication of duty at the start of this M...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. I don’t know how many people in the reading public would re...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The renowned filmmaker Ken Burns has a new project called UNU...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In the last week of April, Joe Biden gave his address to a j...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last night HBO aired its new documentary, Our Towns , which g...
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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This evening—April 13, at 9 p.m. ET—HBO will air its new ...
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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The country is full of “underdog cities”—communities an...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. A few days ago, I was talking with the mayor of a medium-size...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Last week, at his home in Sunnyvale, California, a man named ...
In 20 minutes, the president signaled how he will approach this job and this moment in history.
President-elect Joe Biden must look forward—but the rest of us must contend with the past.
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The pandemic ravaged America’s big cities first, and now it...
The misdeeds and destructive acts are legion. The new president should focus on these three.
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. As it was in 2016, so it is again in 2020: A central axis of ...
The president’s behavior may not meet the term’s legal definition, but it captures the horror a government is visiting upon its people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/this-is-trumps-fault/617159/?utm_source=feed
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. What else is going on in the country, with less than two week...
Both candidates needed to convince voters they possess the right temperament for the job. Only one pulled it off.
Donald Trump made it so, and Chris Wallace let him.
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. This evening we’ll see Donald Trump and Joe Biden on the sa...
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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Back in the early days of the pandemic, when some people imag...