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The Atlantic
How To End Extreme Child Poverty
Buried deep in the latest pandemic stimulus package is a transformative approach to helping families.
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Burn All The Leggings
What do you wear to the reopening of society?
9 min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
The Awful Wisdom of the Hostage
What a new memoir reveals about endurance—and extreme remorse
10 min |
May 2021
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.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
What Richard Wright Knew
A previously unpublished novel reveals his bleak prescience about race in America.
8 min |
June 2021
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?
10+ min |
June 2021
The Atlantic
Return the National Parks to the Tribes
The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Boutique In Your Bedroom
As stores disappear, shopping in your own closet becomes the ultimate luxury.
9 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Human Side of Fracking
Living with the allure and danger of a lucrative, dirty industry
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
The Power of the First Lady
How Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan advanced their husbands’ ambitions—and their own
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
How Will We Remember The Pandemic?
The science of how our memories form— and how they shape our future
10+ min |
May 2021
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.
10+ min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Hormone Monsters
Television turns to magicaal realism to explore the trials of early adolescence.
8 min |
May 2021
The Atlantic
Can Justice Be Served On Zoom?
COVID-19 has transformed America’s courts.
9 min |
May 2021
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.
10+ min |
April 2021
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?
10 min |
April 2021
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.
1 min |
April 2021
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.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Private Schools Are Indefensible
The Gulf between how rich kids and poor kids are educated in America is obscene.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Our Sad Souvenirs of The Pandemic
Americans can’t go anywhere, but we’re still buying the T-shirt.
9 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Beirut – After The Blast
Last summer’s explosion in Beirut killed hundreds of people and damaged much of the city. My efforts to repair my apartment reveal a lot about how Lebanon works—and doesn’t.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID
A growing g number of clinicians are on an urgent quest to find treatments for a frighteningly pervasive problem. They’ve had surprising early success.
10+ min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
The Relentless Philip Roth
In his life as in his fiction, the author pursued the shameful, the libidinous, the repellent.
6 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
NO, REALLY, ARE WE ROME?
The sack of the Capitol was thwarted. But history suggests that corrosive change can be hard to see while it’s happening.
9 min |
April 2021
The Atlantic
Tom Stoppard's Double Life
For Britain’s leading postwar playwright, virtuosity and uncertainty go hand in hand.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Bring Back The Nervous Breakdown
It used to be okay to admit that the world had simply become too much.
9 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
When America Became a Democracy
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally delivered on the stated ideals of this country. Now it hangs by a thread.
10+ min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
The United States of Amazon
How the giant company has transformed the geography of wealth and power
10 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Noisy, Ugly, and Addictive
Hyper pop could become the countercultural sound of the 2020s.
8 min |
March 2021
The Atlantic
Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
Even a pandemic can't stop people from buying clothes they don't need.
10+ min |