<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Not for Lack of Trying
What We’re Following
Zimbabwe’s Crisis: Robert Mugabe, the longtime leader of Zimbabwe, has been placed under house arrest by the country’s military in an apparent coup. Mugabe, who is 93, has refused for decades to cede political power; in the days before his ouster, he fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, prompting Mnangagwa’s supporters in the military to retaliate. Now, Zimbabwe may have a chance to install a more democratic government—but it depends on what military leaders do next.
: In order to pass their tax-reform bill under the rules of budget reconciliation, Republican senators are at the end of 2025. Cuts to corporate taxes, meanwhile, are being kept permanent—undercutting the party’s individual-insurance mandate to the tax bill, in a risky effort to accomplish their two highest legislative priorities at once.
