Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit

After Michael Waltz, the national security adviser, inadvertently included The Atlantic’s editor in chief in a group chat about military attack plans on the Signal messaging app, he found himself on very thin ice with his boss. But President Donald Trump and his advisers were loath to take a political hit by firing Waltz, especially […]

Is Anthony Weiner Ready to Go Another Round?

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. The last time we saw him, we saw all of him. Our subject is Anthony Weiner, whose surname was a burden long before it became a curse—so fused with his disgrace that you can’t say it without triggering […]