Make Politics Boring Again
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Joe Biden promised voters they wouldn’t have to keep thinking about politics all the time. That hasn’t worked out for them, or him.
But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
- The case that could blow up American election law
- Where the Crawdads Sing author wanted for questioning in murder
- Ed Yong on why the new COVID variant feels different
Plus: Scroll down to read Imani Perry’s picks from the newly launched Atlantic archive.
Hardly Reassuring
Political strategists and pundits sometimes talk about the quest to win the news cycle. These days, the question is less whether Joe Biden will win a news cycle than what kind of defeat he’ll suffer. The president’s struggles stem from a range of causes—inflation, foreign war, the
