The ‘Jimmy Clean Hands’ Election

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Some of the people who once supported Donald Trump seem to want him to win, but without the moral stain of voting for him themselves.

First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic:

• American women are at a breaking point.
• Donald Trump’s message to Milwaukee
• The fundamentalist, the technocrat, and the reformist

Floating Above the Fray

In the director Sergio Leone’s final movie, the 1984 crime epic , a group of Jewish gangsters in early-20th-century New York City goes from rags to riches and then to disaster. Along the way, they serve as muscle for the labor movement against cops and strikebreakers, which is fine with everyone except Jimmy O’Donnell, a rising and idealistic union organizer. O’Donnell—a small role played to perfection by —eventually comes to rely on the guns of the