Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. Sometimes in politics, you've just got to give the people what they want. Donald Trump proved an expert at that particular obligation during his ...

Like ?The Atlantic? Subscribe to ?The Atlantic Daily?, our free weekday email newsletter. Donald Trump has vowed to put “America first,” but who comes second, and third, and 193rd? Barack Obama may have been more willing than his predecessors to ...

Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. Updated on February 1, 2017 at 4:30 p.m. ET. Only a few weeks ago, Rex Tillerson looked to be the Trump Cabinet nominee with the shakiest chances ...

Subscribe to The Atlantic's Politics & Policy Daily, a roundup of ideas and events in American politics. Updated at 5:31 p.m. ET. President Obama on Friday vigorously defended his handling of Russian interference in the election, saying he did not ...

Like ?The Atlantic? Subscribe to ?the Daily?, our free weekday email newsletter. On November 26, the New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez held a press conference at the Union of Ex-Political Prisoners of Cuba, a human rights group based in Union City.

Like ?The Atlantic? Subscribe to ?the Daily?, our free weekday email newsletter. Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba in 2009 while working as a subcontractor for the U.S. government, having set up a handful of wi-fi hot spots in a country with some of the ...

Like ?The Atlantic? Subscribe to ?the Daily?, our free weekday email newsletter. Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba in 2009 while working as a subcontractor for the U.S. government, having set up a handful of wi-fi hot spots in a country with some of the ...

Like ?The Atlantic? Subscribe to ?the Daily?, our free weekday email newsletter. Alan Gross was arrested in Cuba in 2009 while working as a subcontractor for the U.S. government, having set up a handful of wi-fi hot spots in a country with some of the ...

Like ?The Atlantic? Subscribe to ?the Daily?, our free weekday email newsletter. Fidel Castro's death came more than a decade after the Cuban revolutionary and authoritarian first handed power to his brother Raul during a severe illness. Castro ...

Ten days ago I argued that FBI Director James Comey had changed the dynamics of the 2016 election in an irreversible way, with his announcement of a new trove of potentially “relevant” emails on Anthony Weiner's computers. After Comey's “oh, never ...

The U.K. High Court's ruling Thursday that the government does not have the authority to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty—the formal mechanism that would begin negotiations for the country's departure from the European Union—is a blow to Prime ...

On the morning of October 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the launch of the operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State. In the hours that followed, Kurdish Peshmerga claimed to have seized no fewer than ...

On the morning of October 17, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the launch of the operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from the Islamic State. In the hours that followed, Kurdish Peshmerga claimed to have seized no fewer than ...

NEWS BRIEF More than 160 people drowned off the Egyptian coast this week after a boat carrying as many as 600 migrants capsized on the way to Europe. Authorities are still expecting to recover dozens more bodies in the coming days, many floating ...

On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will host a summit on the refugee crisis on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. His administration reportedly plans to increase the number of refugees the United States will let in to ...

On Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will host a summit on the refugee crisis on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting. His administration reportedly plans to increase the number of refugees the United States will let in to ...

Uber's self-driving cars are today available to passengers in Pittsburgh, a move that signals the ride-sharing giant's seriousness about its future with autonomous vehicles. It is a pivotal moment for the company—yet Uber had to clear surprisingly few ...

The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It's about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally ...

The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It's about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally ...

The most famous story about modern presidential campaigning now has a quaint old-world tone. It's about the showdown between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy in the first debate of their 1960 campaign, which was also the very first nationally ...