Quinta Jurecic
She previously worked as Lawfare’s managing editor and as an editorial writer for The Washington Post. She is a co-host of The Lawfare Podcast’s “Arbiters of Truth” series on misinformation and disinformation, social-media platforms, and the online information ecosystem. Her writing focuses on politics, democracy, the rule of law, and the internet.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Radoxist Studio / … Good Luck Fighting Disinformation
A group that formed during the pandemic to counter medical lies found that every lever it pulled on failed to produce the results it was hoping for.
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Julia Nikhinson / Bloomberg / Getty The Supreme Court Is Not Up to the Challenge
The decision in Trump v. Anderson is another sign that the nation’s highest court will not help the country out of its political crisis.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Alex Wong / … The Supreme Court Is Eager to Rid Itself of This Difficult Trump Question
It just doesn’t know how.
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Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Source: … January 6 Is Exactly What the Fourteenth Amendment Was Talking About
And ignoring its clear dictate is a dangerous choice to make.
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Doug Mills / The New York Times / … The 2024 Election Already Isn’t Normal
One party heads toward a typical primary season. The other remains gripped by an authoritarian revenge fantasy.
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Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. The Metaphor That Explains Why America Needs to Prosecute Trump
Worrying about the dangers ahead is a bit like focusing on the risk that chemotherapy poses to a cancer patient’s health.
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Illustration by Patrick White. Source: Guy Cali / … The Courtroom Is a Very Unhappy Place for Donald Trump
But don’t expect the justice system alone to save democracy.
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Cheney Orr / Reuters Trump Discovers That Some Things Are Actually Illegal
The cases against the former president aren’t criminalizing politics. They’re criminalizing, well, crimes.
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Drew Angerer / Getty The Triumph of the January 6 Committee
Half a year after the House finished its work, the executive branch has taken the baton and started running.
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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty; Alex Wong … The Court Eviscerates the Independent State Legislature Theory
But bad-faith actors are still a threat to America’s elections.
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Amr Alfiky / Reuters Trump Can’t Bluster His Way Through Court
A courtroom is an inhospitable place for the former president’s efforts to define his own reality.
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Ed Jones/ AFP / Getty This Is Actually Quite Bad
The Manhattan district attorney’s charges underscore how profoundly unsuited Trump is for the office he is now again seeking.
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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Brandon Bell / … An Astonishing, Frightening First for the Country
The situation might be merely crass if not for the shadow of violence hanging over it.
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Drew Angerer / Getty A Case That Even This Supreme Court Seems Torn Over
A better version of the independent state legislature theory is proving difficult to figure out.
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The Atlantic The Supreme Court Case That’s All About Donald Trump
Even if it’s not explicitly about him at all.
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Trump’s Terrifically Stupid Return to Twitter
Two wealthy and self-involved men are seeking the attention they crave.
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Olivier Douliery / AFP / Getty The January 6 Hearings Changed My Mind
House investigators have come far closer than I anticipated to pinning both moral and legal responsibility for the insurrection directly on Donald Trump himself.
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James Devaney / GC Images / Getty; The … The Classified-Files Scandal Is the Most Trumpy Scandal of All
And that’s exactly why it’s so dangerous.
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Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty The January 6 Committee Is Going to Have the Final Word
By establishing an official record of the insurrection, the members are creating clarity in a political moment fogged with lies.
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Stephen Voss / Redux The January 6 Committee Is Not Messing Around
Its first two sessions have already made a powerful case for why this investigation matters.
