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A young generation of artists is winning prizes, acclaim, and legions of readers while exploring identity in new ways.
A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.
Science suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?
In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs.
Audio version of "His Brother's Keeper". In America’s deadliest big city, the task of announcing each new murder falls to police spokesman T. J. Smith. One year ago, he confronted a killing like no other. Original story: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/baltimore-murder-rate-hits-home/563600/
Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America's defining movement.
After a dark history in which transgender kids were routinely ignored, “repaired,” or persecuted, a new protocol of social and physical transition has emerged. For teens who experience persistent gender dysphoria, this protocol can provide profound relief from suffering. For some kids, however, gender dysphoria is temporary. And the effects of transitioning can be permanent.
Here’s one way to fight ISIS: Send one of the most advanced and expensive military aircraft in the U.S. arsenal from a base in Missouri to drop GPS-guided 500-pound bombs on a group of 70 ragtag fighters sleeping in the Libyan desert. (Spoiler alert: They
died.)"
The search for the elixir that turns good teams into great ones.
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risk of pandemics continues to multiply. Much worse is coming. Is Donald Trump ready?
In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.
Stephen Miller once tormented liberals at Duke. Now the president’s speechwriter and immigration enforcer is deploying the art of provocation from the White House.
The gilded future of the top 10 percent—and the end of opportunity for everyone else.
The longtime producer has two shows about women’s pain and rage debuting this summer—and the timing couldn’t be better.
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For a decade, zookeepers have known that something strange was stopping the giant animals’ hearts—now they’re beginning to trace the culprit to their guts.
Falsehoods almost always beat out the truth on Twitter, penetrating further, faster, and deeper into the social network than accurate information.
A Princeton glaciologist says a set of mega-engineering projects may be able to stabilize the world’s most dangerous glaciers.
In a stressful, data-driven era, many young people find comfort and insight in the zodiac—even if they don’t exactly believe in it.
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