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The United States Has Become a Disaster Area
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Hurricanes in the Gulf, fires in the West, coronavirus everywhere—the country is a mess.
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The Atlantic Instead of individual episodes that impinge upon us, like bombs lobbed by an angry god, disasters are now an ongoing and possibly permanent texture to our lives, writes . And we cannot forget—these are disasters. 50m
The Inside Story of Why Mueller Failed
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In a new book, Andrew Weissmann, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s top deputies, lays out the limits and letdowns of the years-long Russia investigation.
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The Atlantic In "Where Law Ends," Andrew Weissmann, a top prosecutor on Robert Mueller's team, draws an affectionate portrait of his old boss—but begrudgingly admits that the Russia investigation's "extreme fairness" doomed it, George Packer writes. 18h
A Dangerous Moment for the Court
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And the country.
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The Atlantic "The rest of America should hope that the country’s political leaders pause before the damage to the Court’s reputation becomes irreversible," writes 20h
How We Survive the Winter
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The coming months of the pandemic could be catastrophic. The U.S. still has ways to prepare.
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The Atlantic Anthony Fauci tells The Atlantic that a coronavirus vaccine will not likely be in widespread distribution "until well into 2021." reports on what that means for the winter 32h
Don’t Make the Election About the Court
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Fixating on the open Supreme Court seat will provoke a culture war.
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The Atlantic "This advice may sound strange, but anyone who cares about the future of the Supreme Court needs to speak as little as possible about the Supreme Court," writes 37h
Immigrants Don’t Just Change Voting Patterns
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Kamala Harris’s parents showed that new arrivals create new possibilities.
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The Atlantic "Immigration into the United States allows multicultural interactions that produce Americans who can see the country from both within and without," writes 39h
The Atlantic Daily: Start Preparing for Winter
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The coronavirus isn’t going away. In fact, the U.S. outbreak is poised to get worse.
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The Atlantic The coronavirus isn’t going away. In fact, the U.S. outbreak is poised to get worse. The latest Atlantic Daily by 58h
The Weaponization of the Free-Exercise Clause
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The Supreme Court’s majority is transforming this onetime protection into a sword to strike down hard-fought advances in civil rights.
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The Atlantic "Requiring religious people in the ordinary course of their lives to follow the rules that apply to everyone else is not hostility; it is equality," Howard Gillman and Erwin Chemerinsky write 3d
No, We Weren’t ‘Suckers’ or ‘Losers’
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The military colleagues who saved my life knew what service means. Trump, in contrast, lets his personal insecurities endanger America’s national security.
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The Atlantic "When Trump mocks our service members, he’s also mocking every American in every part of this country. When he derides wounded warriors, he’s letting his own personal insecurities endanger our national security," writes 3d
RBG’S Life, in Her Own Words
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In one of her most revealing interviews, the justice discusses her losses, her struggles, and her hope for the future.
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The Atlantic In one of her most revealing interviews, Ruth Bader Ginsburg sat down with and discussed the wisdom that guided her throughout her life and her vision for a Constitution that embraced all Americans with open arms 3d
The Clock Is Ticking on America’s ‘Feral Swine Bomb’
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Wild pigs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage each year.
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The Atlantic America’s wild hogs are running rampant—and doing billions of dollars of damage every year. As one expert told , “any pig outside of a fence is a problem.” 3d
Four Reasons to Doubt Mitch McConnell’s Power
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For once, he may be on the wrong side of a power dynamic.
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The Atlantic "What McConnell did in 2016 was an assertion of brute power, and what he proposes in 2020 is another assertion of brute power. And so the question arises: Does McConnell in fact have the power he asserts?" writes 3d
Lindsey Graham ‘Didn’t Particularly Like’ Trump’s Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford
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In a combative interview Wednesday, the South Carolina senator strongly defended Brett Kavanaugh, and argued that his fiery rhetoric is sincere.
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The Atlantic “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term and the primary process is started, we’ll wait for the next election,” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham said during an interview with in 2018. 3d
What Is Good Teaching?
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Over the past two years, I talked with veteran educators across the country as I tried to answer this question.
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The Atlantic Over the past two years, traversed the country for 's "On Teaching" project, talking to veteran educators about their craft. Here's what she learned 5d
4 Films You Need to Watch This Fall
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Some of the year’s best new movies are about American soul-searching.
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The Atlantic "American Utopia," "One Night in Miami," "Nomadland," and "MLK/FBI": Four of the best new films this year collectively feel like an attempt at American soul-searching, writes. 5d
The American Government Gave Up on Reality
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Over the past 50 years, the three branches have lost their capacity to analyze and act on independent, nonpartisan information.
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The Atlantic "Unless the next administration also takes on the task of restoring the government’s capacity to harness knowledge and analyze it, even the world’s most devoted public servants will struggle," writes 5d
When Women Lead Protest Movements
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The demonstrations in Belarus point to a broader trend.
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The Atlantic Belarus has charged one of its protest leaders with “undermining national security.” The woman, Maria Kolesnikova, is one of three major female opposition figures. Last week, wrote about the significance of this women-led protest movement 5d
There Won’t Be a Clear End to the Pandemic
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The collective sense of closure we’re all longing for may never arrive. Instead, brace for a slow fade into a new normal.
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The Atlantic The sublime post-pandemic period that so many are longing for will likely not arrive all at once, like a clock striking midnight on New Year’s Eve, writes. 6d
Coffee Rust Is Going to Ruin Your Morning
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Coffee plants were supposed to be safe on this side of the Atlantic. But the fungus found them.
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The Atlantic Coffee growers assumed that the deadly disease devastating their plants could not cross the Atlantic. They were wrong, writes 6d
I’m Still Saying Her Name
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Today I remember my friend Cynthia Wesley and the three other girls who died during the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing 57 years ago.
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The Atlantic "Just as today we say the names of the many who have been unjustly killed by police officers, the names of those four girls became part of the call for change that energized social protests in the 1960s," Freeman A. Hrabowski III writes 7d