Science
The Atlantic
Death Of A Small Business
“I’m more than just my store,” my father told me. And yet, for nearly his entire adult life, all of his decisions had argued the opposite.
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December 2020
The Atlantic
Bringing Politics Into the Classroom
Why it’s impossible—and irresponsible— for teachers in minority communities to ignore the subject
10 min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
The Many Lives of Adrienne Rich
Praised by W. H. Auden as neat and modest, she vowed to be passionate and radical instead.
10 min |
December 2020
The Atlantic
The Bible Without Miracles
Thomas Jefferson preferred Jesus’s teachings to his supernatural acts—and edited his copy of the New Testament accordingly.
6 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Last Exit
Donald Trump’s first term was characterized by theft, lies, corruption, and the incitement of violence. A second term could spell the end of American democracy.
10+ min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Why We're Afraid of Bats
On how we know—and how we learn— what to fear
10 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Fluffing Your Own Nest
Can happiness be found in home improvement?
7 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Why British Police Shows Are Better
When you take away guns and shootings, you have more time to explore grief, guilt, and the psychological complexity of crime.
7 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
The Election That Could Break America
If the vote us close, Donald Trump could easily throw election into chaos. Who will stop him?
10+ min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
American Caudillo
Donald Trump is slowly making the U.S. into a likeness of the countries Latino refugees have been fleeing.
9 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
Make America Again
The country is at alow point –our civic bonds frayed, our politics toxic. But we may be on the cusp of an era of radical reform that advances citizens' rights opportunity, and repairs our broken democracy.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
The New Southern Strategy
How Black mayors in the South are leveraging both the power of office and the power of the street to achieve overdue changes
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October 2020
The Atlantic
The WeWork Guy's Guide to Striking It Rich
Adam Neumann may be out of a job, but his wild rise is standard operating procedure in Silicon Valley.
10+ min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
STILL FALLING FOR IT
In 1957, Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd warned America that a populist demagogue could use mass media to accumulate dangerous quantities of power.
10 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
OH, IT WAS NOTHING
Why Kamala Harris is caught between self-effacement and self-assertion
8 min |
November 2020
The Atlantic
How Disaster Shaped the Modern City
The lessons of history are clear: Visionary responses to calamities have changed urban life for the better.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
A Cubicle Never Looked So Good
What we lose when we have to work from home
8 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Nicola Gratteri – MOB Justice
An Italian prosecutor takes on his country’s most powerful crime syndicate.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Claudia Rankine's Quest for Racial Dialogue
Is her focus on the personal out of step with the racial politics of our moment?
10 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Ever Thought About Breaking Free, Abandoning Your Responsabilities, Running Away From Your Life?
Toby Dorr's Great Escape
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Looking For Frederick Douglass
How a visit to his birthplace helped me understand this moment in America
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
What Is MasterClass Actually Selling?
The Ads are everywhere: You can learn to serve like Serena Williams, write like Margaret Atwood, act like Natalie Portman. But what MasterClass really delivers is something altoguether different.
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
The Mythology Of Racial Progress
Believing that things are always getting better actually makes them worse.
9 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
The Relentless Erin Brockovich
She was an early crusader for environmental justice. Today, she’s sounding the alarm louder than ever.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Lying as an Art Form
Elena Ferrante’s new novel about adolescence explores the power of fictions.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Why Is the West So Powerful— And So Peculiar?
Cultural evolutionary theory has a startling answer: a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a millennium and a half ago.
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October 2020
The Atlantic
The Beating Pulse of Donald Judd
I always thought his work was intimidatingly austere, until I discovered the plenitude at its core.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
POWER SHORTAGE
Women’s rights are human rights. But rights are nothing without the power to claim them.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Marilynne Robinson's Lonely Souls
Her new novel, the latest installment of her Gilead series, explores the power of love and the legacy of race.
10+ min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Was Charlotte Dod the Greatest Athlete Ever?
The remarkable career of a Victorian athletic phenom—and the legacy that wasn’t
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