"This week marks the midway point of Trump’s term. Like many Americans, we sometimes find the velocity of chaos unmanageable. So, we decided to pause for a moment and analyze 50 of the most improbable, norm-bending, and destructive incidents of this presidency to date. The Atlantic’s founders promised their readers that we would be “of no party or clique.” This remains a core governing principle of the magazine today. What follows is a catalog of incidents, ranked—highly subjectively!—according to both their outlandishness and their importance. In most any previous presidency, Democratic or Republican, each moment on this list would have been unthinkable."