Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State.

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If a savage beating, captured on camera, cannot produce a murder conviction, the chances of fixing the police-brutality ...

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But if you look at the U.S. economy right now, it doesn’t look obviously different from the way it did just before Trump’s so ...

Don’t expect Leo XIV to be merely progressive or conservative.

And yet, the conclave that concluded today in Rome has chosen the first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church: ...

Donald Trump has been widely ridiculed for staffing his administration with unqualified partisan hacks recruited from Fox News. This is not quite fair. Yesterday, Trump named Jeanine Pirro as the new ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

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At one point, Trump sort of smirked. I was standing about four feet away from the odd assemblage. And it wasn’t even the ...

Dismissing evidence that a politician might be unfit for office is as much a mistake for the right as it was for the left.