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theatlantic.com > international > 2026 > 09 > china-nepal-flood-xi-jinping > 688484

What the Floods Say About Xi Jinping

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (117+ words) Last week, after floodwaters caused by a collapsing glacier tore through the Himalayas between Nepal and China, leaving more than 1,100 people dead and thousands more missing, the party’s current... China’s leader behaves more like an emperor than a man of…...

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theatlantic.com > international > 2026 > 09 > putin-russia-europe-trump-war > 688565

What Russia Is Really Up To in Europe

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (371+ words) Moscow doesn’t want a conventional war but is busy fighting a hybrid one. U.S. intelligence assessments conclude that a conventional Russian attack on a NATO country is likely to happen sometime from this fall to 2029. But another possibility is that…...

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theatlantic.com > national-security > 2026 > 09 > trump-iran-war-navy > 688563

Trump is Preparing for a Long War

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (215+ words) The military is doing long-term planning for its force in the Persian Gulf, risking further strain on the Navy. To hear the Trump administration tell it, the war with Iran is all but over. U.S. military posture tells a different story:…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 09 > trump-stories-september-911 > 688557

All the Places Trump Was on 9/11

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (75+ words) The Atlantic The president’s latest version doesn’t square with the facts. Where were you on 9/11? Every American old enough to remember the day has an answer to that question. President Trump has several. Trump’s view may have been clear, but…...

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theatlantic.com > magazine > 2026 > 10 > trump-taiwan-sovereignty-china > 688356

Will Taiwan Just Give Up?

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (522+ words) The Taiwanese don’t trust Trump, and they don’t believe America will come to their defense. A deal with China is starting to look inevitable. And yet, a month earlier, the Taiwanese Nationalists had received a warm reception in Beijing. They’d…...

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theatlantic.com > national-security > 2026 > 09 > iran-war-trump-assassinations > 688522

A War of Assassinations

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (193+ words) The U.S. and Iran are engaged in a conflict that is massive in scale but personal in nature. Assassination was clearly on Trump’s mind when the elder Khamenei was killed. “I got him before he got me,” Trump told ABC News’s…...

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theatlantic.com > politics > 2026 > 09 > prosecution-immigration-ice-protests > 688513

The Charges Were Dropped, but the Damage Was Already Done

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (406+ words) David Huerta was arrested while protesting ICE raids in LA. Yet here he was. “The president of the union just got fucking arrested,” he said. “If they can do this to me, imagine what they’re doing to other people.” Read:…...

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theatlantic.com > national-security > 2026 > 09 > mexico-trump-stephen-miller-usmca > 688496

The Schism Within the Trump Administration on Mexico

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (224+ words) Officials are veering between praise for cooperation and threats to attack. For Johnson, the U.S.–Mexico relationship is defined by “close coordination,” “decisive action,” “information shared,” and “the security of both our nations.” His hashtag of choice is #TogetherWeAchieveMore. Johnson’s Mexico…...

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theatlantic.com > national-security > 2026 > 08 > treasury-bessent-sanctions-iran-trump > 688401

Even More Maximum Pressure on Iran

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (395+ words) The Trump administration gave its own explanation for why sanctions against Tehran won’t work. No sooner had Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the latest tool for achieving what he said would be the “economic asphyxiation” of Iran than he revealed…...

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theatlantic.com > national-security > 2026 > 08 > qatar-jet-donald-trump > 688321

The Qataris Gave Trump an Airplane. He Crippled Their Country in Return.

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1398+ words) The tiny Gulf state is learning that the U.S. president doesn’t always keep his end of the deal. Donald Trump really wanted the plane. The Qataris had flown the $400 million Boeing 747 to West Palm Beach just after he returned to the…...