Science
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
10+ min |
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.
10+ min |
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
9 min |
October 2020
The Atlantic
Protest Works
How the Black Lives Matter demonstrations will shake up the 2020 election—and reshape American politics for a generation to come
8 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
What to Do About William Faulkner
A white man of the Jim Crow South, he couldn’t escape the burden of race, yet derived creative force from it.
10 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
David Coppereld 's Wild Ride
Armando Iannucci’s mad, loving, and brilliant adaptation of Dickens’s novel
6 min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Essay – “No Novel About Any Black Woman Could Ever Be the Same After This”
That’s how Toni Morrison described Gayl Jones’s first book in 1975. Jones has published to great acclaim and experienced unspeakable tragedy. Now she is releasing her first novel in more than 20 years.
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September 2020
The Atlantic
Anatomy of an American Failure – How the virus won
How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation.
10+ min |
September 2020
The Atlantic
Culture & Critics - “How Did I End Up Like This?”
Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Hygiene is Overrated
But keep washing your hands.
6 min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
Can An Unlove Child Learn to Love?
Thirty years ago, the world discovered tens of thousands of children warehoused in Romanian orphanages, deprived of human contact and affection. They’re adults now.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
FICTION - Deep Cut
“Naw, you don’t have to worry about me,” Thomas said, after his mother had finished her characteristically perfunctory warning to us about drugs, alcohol, and rough-looking types. “Paul thinks he’s cool now, though.” ¶ “Paul, when did this happen?” Mrs. Rickley said. ¶ She wasn’t a hip mom, exactly, but she got points for not caring particularly about what her children or their friends got up to.
10+ min |
July - August 2020
The Atlantic
POLICE REFORM IS NOT ENOUGH
The moral failure of incremental change
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