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Subscriber Weekly: What the Past Four Years Revealed About American Culture

Trump the person exited the stage. But the Trump industrial complex may linger. This is <em>The Atlantic</em>’s weekly email to subscribers, a close look at the issues our newsroom is watching.

This is The Atlantic’s weekly email to subscribers, a close look at the issues our newsroom is watching.

What has the Trump presidency revealed about how we live? Will these cultural shifts persist in the Biden era? This week, I invited several of our writers to examine these questions through the lens of the entertainment we consume, our relationships with family and friends, and how we talk to each other—online and off.

Mara Wilson


There’s Donald Trump the person, but there’s also

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