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The Atlantic Defend the Public Defenders Their ability to hold on to their job should not depend on the same people they challenge in court. March 13, 2021 Getty / The Atlantic Public defense might be one of the rare professions in which doing one’s job too well can lead to being fired. The reasons for this are structural—public defenders are tasked with an obligation they cannot fulfill without upsetting those tasked with helping them fulfill it—and the system can be fixed structurally: by creating a state-level office whose job it is to defend public defenders. Consider the case of tw...

The Atlantic Runaway partisanship endangers the United States more than foreign enemies do. February 18, 2021 Adam Maida In one of his first public speeches, in early 1838, Abraham Lincoln warned that the biggest threat to the United States came from within. “If destruction be our lot,” said the future president, then 28, “we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” Citing the killings of a mixed-race boatman and an abolitionist newspaper editor by pro-slavery crowds, Lincoln described a country in which wide...