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The Pandemic-Driven Rise in Animals Crossing
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The “Anthropause” has made the world’s roads safer than they’ve been in a century. How long will they stay that way?
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The Atlantic It’s hardly a stretch to say that hundreds of millions, perhaps billions, of wild animals will ultimately be spared from becoming roadkill because of coronavirus lockdowns, reports 6h
Bars Are Easy. Schools Are Difficult.
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Americans found out the hard way that education is essential infrastructure.
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The Atlantic "The problem isn’t that policy makers—many of them parents too—don’t know what families are going through," writes. "It’s that, fundamentally, the way public officials thought about the consequences of this crisis was flawed." 8h
Dear Therapist: I Love My Trans Daughter, but I’m Still Struggling
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I don’t know how to process what I’m going through.
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The Atlantic In this week’s Dear Therapist, advises a reader whose daughter came out as trans. 9h
Harry Potter and the Desperate Urge for the World to Be Simple
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The backlash against J. K. Rowling’s comments are the growing pains of her fandom.
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The Atlantic What accounts for the level of anger directed at J. K. Rowling over her views on gender? Her Millennial fans are discovering that her values are not the same as theirs, writes 11h
Americans Are Living in an Alternate History
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As the pandemic has raged on, popular culture has found new ways to ask an old question: What could have been instead?
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The Atlantic Alternate histories often double as warnings. But these days, writes, they’re doing something else, as well: providing a space to grieve the futures that might have been. 14h
The U.S. Is Repeating Its Deadliest Pandemic Mistake
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More than 40 percent of all coronavirus deaths have been in nursing homes. Here’s how it got so bad, and why there might still be more to come as cases surge in the Sun Belt.
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The Atlantic “I think we really dropped the ball here." reports on why the U.S. allowed so many elderly people to die, and why there might still be more COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes to come 9h
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The Atlantic “I think we really dropped the ball here." reports on why the U.S. allowed so many elderly people to die, and why there might still be more COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes to come 15h
Unbundling the Police in Venice Beach, California
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You shouldn’t have to call 911 for problems related to homelessness.
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The Atlantic "In recent weeks, the protests over the killing of George Floyd have provoked an unusually wide-ranging debate about how to respond to police violence. Earmark funds for reform? Defund the police? Abolish them?" writes 15h
Blame Institutions, Not Individuals
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Humans are bad at making the complex risk calculations now confronting them as states ease restrictions on business.
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The Atlantic "Individuals are being asked to decide for themselves what chances they should take," writes, "but a century of research on human cognition shows that people are bad at assessing risk in complex situations." 10h
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The Atlantic "Individuals are being asked to decide for themselves what chances they should take," writes, "but a century of research on human cognition shows that people are bad at assessing risk in complex situations." 19h
What Camp People Are Losing This Summer
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At camp, I learned how to be myself, on my own terms.
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The Atlantic "I’ve always said that a day at camp is like two weeks in real life. Every emotion, friendship, and romantic feeling is amplified. On those campgrounds, an extraordinary, emotional magic takes place," writes 31h
Can Archaeology Dogs Smell Ancient Time?
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Researchers show that with proper training, dogs can help scholars discover human and animal remains from bygone centuries.
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The Atlantic Police have long used dogs to sniff out human remains. Now, reports, archaeologists are using them to uncover bones buried thousands of years ago. 42h
Watching ‘Hamilton’ Is Like Opening a Time Capsule
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Disney+’s filmed version of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical feels dated, timeless, and vital all at once.
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The Atlantic The time-capsule quality of “Hamilton,” now streaming on Disney+, can serve as a bracing throwback for new viewers and returning fans alike, writes. 56h
We Returned to Normal
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My wife, kids, and I left our apartment in Brooklyn for my wife’s home country of Iceland, where the coronavirus is mostly under control. What we found is what Americans will not have for a long time: ordinary life.
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The Atlantic "Feeling cavalier, the first thing we did on Sunday in Reykjavík was go to the playground. It felt like the first playground we had been to in forever," Adam Roy Gordon writes 57h
The New Boomerang Kids Could Change American Views of Living at Home
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Moving in with your parents is often seen as a mark of irresponsibility. The pandemic might show the country that it shouldn’t be.
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The Atlantic Almost 3 million American adults have moved in with their parents or grandparents during the pandemic. Perhaps it’s time for the country to revise its negative stereotypes about that living arrangement, writes. 31h
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The Atlantic Almost 3 million American adults have moved in with their parents or grandparents during the pandemic. Perhaps it’s time for the country to revise its negative stereotypes about that living arrangement, writes. 58h
Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping
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People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise.
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The Atlantic Furious scolding about the least risky part of a potentially risky chain of activities is certain to backfire, writes. 31h
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The Atlantic Furious scolding about the least risky part of a potentially risky chain of activities is certain to backfire, writes. 58h
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The Atlantic Furious scolding about the least risky part of a potentially risky chain of activities is certain to backfire, writes. 3d
The Boogaloo Tipping Point
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What happens when a meme becomes a terrorist movement?
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The Atlantic The boogaloo boys are yet another example of a meme escaping from 4chan to become a real-life extremist movement, writes. 3d
Du Bois Gave Voice to Pain and Promise
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A century after the publication of Darkwater, its message has never been more relevant.
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The Atlantic "[W. E. B.] Du Bois’s 1920 book, 'Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil,' offers us a clarion call to action, to imagine a better tomorrow and continue, even in the face of death, to live, to fight, and to love," writes 49h
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The Atlantic "[W. E. B.] Du Bois’s 1920 book, 'Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil,' offers us a clarion call to action, to imagine a better tomorrow and continue, even in the face of death, to live, to fight, and to love," writes 3d
Australia Has a Flesh-Eating-Bacteria Problem
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In the beach towns south of Melbourne, everyone, it seems, knows someone who’s been attacked.
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The Atlantic Flesh-eating bacteria are on the rise in the beach towns near Melbourne, Australia, and scientists are struggling to figure out why, reports. 32h
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The Atlantic Flesh-eating bacteria are on the rise in the beach towns near Melbourne, Australia, and scientists are struggling to figure out why, reports. 3d
Trump Is Turning America Into the ‘Shithole Country’ He Fears
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The president’s mindless nationalism has come to this: Americans are not welcome in Europe or Mexico.
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The Atlantic "The numbers of American sick and dead are a source of wonder and marvel all over the world. They also inspire fear and anxiety," writes 55h
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The Atlantic "The numbers of American sick and dead are a source of wonder and marvel all over the world. They also inspire fear and anxiety," writes 58h
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The Atlantic "The numbers of American sick and dead are a source of wonder and marvel all over the world. They also inspire fear and anxiety," writes 3d
James Baldwin Was Right All Along
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The writer and activist has the painful, powerful words for this political moment. America just needs to heed them.
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The Atlantic "Baldwin put his whole life and body weight into these words, which, today more than ever, reverberate like a never-ending nightmare." Raoul Peck, the director of "I Am Not Your Negro," writes about heeding James Baldwin, more than 50 years later 52h
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The Atlantic "Baldwin put his whole life and body weight into these words, which, today more than ever, reverberate like a never-ending nightmare." Raoul Peck, the director of "I Am Not Your Negro," writes about heeding James Baldwin, more than 50 years later 4d
The NFL Can't Fight Racism When Owners Support Trump
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The league's rhetoric conflicts with plutocrats' political commitments.
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The Atlantic "The NFL can only make a difference if those in positions of power... embrace this opportunity to make bold statements rather than maintain the status quo," writes 4d