What Trump’s Second Term Could Look Like
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
In the January/February issue of The Atlantic, 24 writers explain how Donald Trump could destroy America’s civic and democratic institutions, including its courts, national political culture, and military, if he succeeds in returning to the Oval Office.
First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
- Jeffrey Goldberg: A warning about a second Trump term
- The Supreme Court takes on yet another made-up controversy.
- Israel’s impossible dilemma
- Alan Taylor’s top 25 news photos of 2023
What a Collapse Would Look Like
For years, Donald Trump’s many opponents were often accused of alarmism, and early on, this seemed a justified criticism: Before he was even sworn in, words such as and were in the air. Although I was a charter member of the Never Trump movement, I worried that catastrophizing Trump and depicting him as an invincible would induce helplessness and resignation among American citizens. When Trump was defeated in
