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Admit It, You Miss Your Commute
The Atlantic

Admit It, You Miss Your Commute

You may have thought its only purpose was to get you to and from work. But it was doing something more.

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July - August 2021
A New Hope for Star Wars
The Atlantic

A New Hope for Star Wars

What The Mandalorian teaches us about the true power of George Lucas’s galaxy—and how to restore it

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July - August 2021
Estebanico's America
The Atlantic

Estebanico's America

The story of Africans on this continent is longer and more varied than the version I was taught in school.

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June 2021
Fiction – Bump
The Atlantic

Fiction – Bump

To those who accuse me of immoderate desire, I say look at the oil executives. Look at the Gold Rush. Look at all the women who want a ring and romance and lifelong commitment, and then look again at me.

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June 2021
Stacey Abrams Writes A Thriller
The Atlantic

Stacey Abrams Writes A Thriller

How she became a novelist, what politics and writing have in common, and why, at the end of every good story, someone’s got to die

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June 2021
PULLING COUNT
The Atlantic

PULLING COUNT

MY SIX MONTHS ON THE LINE IN A DODGE CITY MEATPACKING PLANT

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July - August 2021
Infomercial for America
The Atlantic

Infomercial for America

The timeless appeal of Top Gun

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July - August 2021
The Power of Refusal
The Atlantic

The Power of Refusal

New novels by Rachel Cusk and Jhumpa Lahiri explore women’s struggle to withdraw and create.

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June 2021
Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?
The Atlantic

Whose Side Is Kavanaugh On?

Conservatives hope to weaponize his bitterness. Liberals are inviting him over for dinner.

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June 2021
Elvis Reenters The Building
The Atlantic

Elvis Reenters The Building

In rural Ohio, a performer bookends a year of struggle and survival.

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June 2021
Alison Bechdel's Spiritual Sprint
The Atlantic

Alison Bechdel's Spiritual Sprint

In her new memoir, the cartoonist runs, climbs, bikes, skis, spins, and Solo exes her way toward transcendence.

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June 2021
Purgatory At Sea
The Atlantic

Purgatory At Sea

Off the coast of Italy, cruise ships are being repurposed as holding pens for migrants rescued from the mediterranean.

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June 2021
How To End Extreme Child Poverty
The Atlantic

How To End Extreme Child Poverty

Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.

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June 2021
Burn All The Leggings
The Atlantic

Burn All The Leggings

What do you wear to the reopening of society?

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June 2021
The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
The Atlantic

The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage

What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse

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May 2021
The Diplomat Who Disappeared
The Atlantic

The Diplomat Who Disappeared

In 1974, John Patterson, an american diplomat on his first assignment abroad, was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000 and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.

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May 2021
What Richard Wright Knew
The Atlantic

What Richard Wright Knew

A previously unpublished novel reveals his bleak prescience about race in America.

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June 2021
THE WAR ON NOSTALGIA
The Atlantic

THE WAR ON NOSTALGIA

The myth of the Lost Cause is passed down like an heirloom. What would it take for the truth to break through?

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June 2021
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The Atlantic

Return the National Parks to the Tribes

The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.

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May 2021
The Boutique In Your Bedroom
The Atlantic

The Boutique In Your Bedroom

As stores disappear, shopping in your own closet becomes the ultimate luxury.

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May 2021
The Human Side of Fracking
The Atlantic

The Human Side of Fracking

Living with the allure and danger of a lucrative, dirty industry

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May 2021
The Power of the First Lady
The Atlantic

The Power of the First Lady

How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own

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May 2021
How Will We Remember The Pandemic?
The Atlantic

How Will We Remember The Pandemic?

The science of how our memories form— and how they shape our future

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May 2021
‘It's Always Been About Exclusion'
The Atlantic

‘It's Always Been About Exclusion'

America is a diverse nation of immigrants—but it was not intended to be, and its historical biases continue to haunt the present.

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May 2021
Hormone Monsters
The Atlantic

Hormone Monsters

Television turns to magicaal realism to explore the trials of early adolescence.

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May 2021
Can Justice Be Served On Zoom?
The Atlantic

Can Justice Be Served On Zoom?

COVID-19 has transformed America’s courts.

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May 2021
The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot
The Atlantic

The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot

Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to.

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April 2021
 Dispatches: America Without God
The Atlantic

Dispatches: America Without God

As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity has risen. Will the quest for secular redemption through politics doom the American idea?

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April 2021
Looking Up
The Atlantic

Looking Up

When you are an ant, the stakes are always high. There are those who would eat you—birds, snakes, bigger bugs—and those who could trample you and your environment in a single sneakered step. These enormous beings may not mean you any harm, but it is impact, not intention, that matters most.

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April 2021
The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful
The Atlantic

The Internet Doesn't Have To Be Awful

The civic habits necessary for a functioning republic have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.

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April 2021