Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The Potential Political Fallout Over Foreign Funding
Has Speaker Mike Johnson once again risked his tenuous leadership position?
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The Battle in Congress for Foreign Funding
House Speaker Mike Johnson faces mounting frustration among his right-wing Republican colleagues.
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Emma McIntyre / Getty for Coachella Scenes From Coachella 2024
Images of this year’s performances and concertgoers during the first weekend of Coachella 2024
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Will Republicans Find Consensus on Abortion Politics?
Republicans continue to clash this week as party leadership remains unclear.
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The Future of the U.S.-Israel Relationship
“Very simply, the Israeli military has a sort of lower threshold for what it’s willing to tolerate and the risk that it’s willing to put civilians in.”
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Photograph by John Trotter for The Atlantic Ro Khanna Wants to Be the Future of the Democratic Party
Khanna, a congressman who represents Silicon Valley, sees himself as a bridge between America’s faded industrial might and its digital future.
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The State of the Biden-Trump Rematch
“The Biden people seem to be more scared of [RFK Jr.] than the Trump people are … It’s a real wild card partly because the anti-vaxxer vote is a pretty hard-core part of the Republican base.”
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Is the Biden-Netanyahu Relationship Rupturing?
“If you flash back to the rupture during the Obama administration, Joe Biden was always the person who stepped in and tried to find a way to make it better.”
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The Wars That Divide Washington
“You don’t see the president condemning Schumer’s statements, criticizing it at all … That does say a lot.”
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The End of Political Centrism
The State of the Union “was the kickoff of a general election campaign and it was a clear contrast from Republicans on everything from abortion to immigration, to the economy.”
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The Leader of Today’s Republican Party
“McConnell was the final backstop against the complete Trumpification of the Senate.”
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Nick Oxford / Reuters Wildfires Rage Across the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma
Early images from a broad area affected by several wildfires
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Can Ukraine Win This War?
Anne Applebaum, David Ignatius, and Lara Seligman discuss with Jeffrey Goldberg what winning would look like for Ukraine.
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Trump’s Legal and Political Strategies
Digging into the GOP front-runner’s claims on the stump and in legal filings
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Washington Week With The Atlantic Trump’s Republican Party
“The Senate is no longer this cooling saucer for the hot tea that’s boiling in the House.”
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Ethan Swope / AP Historic Levels of Rainfall in California Storms
Images from Southern California, where the second storm in a long-duration atmospheric river brought record levels of rainfall
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic What Does Iran Want?
And will Iran-supported militias back down after U.S. strikes?
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Trump Gets One Step Closer
Watch the full episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic, January 26, 2024
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic The Candidates Running for Vice President
“Donald Trump made it pretty clear that he didn’t care if his previous vice president lived or died on January 6. It’s kind of a dangerous job to take. Why would anybody want that job?”
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Courtesy of Washington Week With The Atlantic Trump on Trial—And on the Trail
Watch the full episode of Washington Week With The Atlantic, January 12, 2024.
