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| | President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance sit in the Situation Room on Saturday. (The White House / AP) | | | |
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| Even as the president suggested that he was open to negotiations, he had already made up his mind. | |
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| | (Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty; Menahem Kahana / AFP / Getty.) | | | |
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| And Donald Trump is caught in the middle. | |
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| | California Highway Patrol officers arrest a demonstrator in the overpass of the 101 freeway as protests continue in response to federal immigration operations in Los Angeles on June 10, 2025. (Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty) | | | |
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| A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern. | |
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| | (Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty.) | | | |
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| The best available evidence suggests that the youth-vote shift in 2024 was more a one-off event than an ideological realignment. | |
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| | (Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic) | | | |
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| The AI takeover is changing everything about the web—and not necessarily for the better. | |
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