<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics &amp; Policy Daily: The Optics Nerve

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What We’re Following Today

It’s Thursday, July 25.

‣ Attorney General William Barr ordered the federal death penalty to be reinstated for the first time in 16 years, clearing the execution of five inmates.

Here’s what else we’re watching:

Throughout the entire Mueller saga, much of the media rather than the actual substantive punch of the special counsel’s report, argues Todd S. Purdum. Yesterday’s testimony, he writes, “was much more than a mere show.”