to guarantee an audience now that Fox News, with its decidedly nonneutral take, was an option. CNN needed an identity. In this week's cover story, Jonathan Mahler tells the story of how President Trump solved that problem for the network, largely because of a strange symbiosis between him and CNN's president,

picture of horrific treatment of recruits by their drill instructors. Is this really the only way to create a warrior? Elsewhere in the magazine, Jonathan Mahler introduces us to all the president's lawyers and their tactics of choice. Heidi Julavits writes about a pilgrimage with her children to see "Spiral