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Why Hasn’t Cory Booker’s Campaign Caught Fire?
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On paper, he’s exactly what many Democratic voters say they want.
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The Atlantic Cory Booker is a Rhodes scholar, the first black candidate to win statewide in New Jersey, and wields the same kind of credentials that have given other candidates a boost. But the Democrat has yet to take off, reports. 6h
The GOP’s Witnesses Aren’t Helping Trump
Russell Berman - The Atlantic 8h 1 tweets
If Republicans thought Kurt Volker and Timothy Morrison would bust the Democrats’ case for impeachment, they were likely disappointed by what they heard today.
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The Atlantic If Republicans thought Kurt Volker and Timothy Morrison would bust the Democrats' case for impeachment, they were likely disappointed by what they heard today, writes 8h
Trump’s White-Nationalist Vanguard
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The emails of a key presidential aide show an extremist ideology influencing policy in the White House.
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The Atlantic "Miller’s emails show one of the president’s closest aides, and the architect of many of his hard-line immigration policies, citing white-nationalist sources and pursuing the same goal they sought to realize," argues 14h
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The Atlantic "Miller’s emails show one of the president’s closest aides, and the architect of many of his hard-line immigration policies, citing white-nationalist sources and pursuing the same goal they sought to realize," argues 10h
President Trump Has Found His Plumbers
Russell Berman - The Atlantic 14h 1 tweets
Republicans doing the president’s bidding at the House impeachment hearing were focused less on the truth than on how it got out—like a modern-day version of Richard Nixon’s infamous leak patrol.
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The Atlantic Republicans doing the president’s bidding at the House impeachment hearing were focused less on the truth than on how it got out—like a modern-day version of Richard Nixon’s infamous leak patrol, reports 14h
Nixon’s Own Appointees Defied Him. Trump’s Can Too.
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In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power.
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The Atlantic "Nixon’s abuses of power were reined in not only by the public Watergate investigations, but also by high-level Republican appointees who stood up to unethical orders behind the scenes," argues . That moral urgency "is no less great today." 17h
Callous, Careless Prince Andrew
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An oblivious interview exposes the two-tier world in which Jeffrey Epstein flourished.
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The Atlantic An oblivious interview with Prince Andrew exposes the two-tier world in which Jeffrey Epstein flourished, reports 32h
The Three Personalities of America
Olga Khazan - The Atlantic 37h 8 tweets
People in different regions of the U.S. have measurably different psychological profiles.
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The Atlantic Are you "friendly and conventional" or "uninhibited and temperamental"? The answer could depend on where you live, writes 32h
The Man Who Did Not Sweat
James Hamblin - The Atlantic 34h 2 tweets
In an effort to prove that he did not sexually assault a 17-year-old in the 1990s, Prince Andrew offered a bizarre medical explanation.
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The Atlantic In an interview with the BBC, Prince Andrew said he could not have been sweatily dancing with a 17-year-old at a London nightclub, because he was unable to perspire at the time—though he can now. That would defy medical precedent, writes. 34h
Look Who’s Trying to Seize Private Property
Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic 40h 1 tweets
The Trump administration wants to use eminent domain to build the border wall.
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The Atlantic The president "wants the federal government to seize the private property of dozens of Texans under the dubious pretext of a national emergency," writes . And Trump's "lack of respect for private property rights goes back decades." 40h
The Haunting Senegalese Love Story That Stunned Cannes
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The Grand Prix–winning "Atlantics," set to stream on Netflix later this month, deftly melds fantasy and romance in a complex portrait of migration.
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The Atlantic With its clever melding of fantasy and romance, Mati Diop's gorgeous film "Atlantics" tells a prismatic migration story, writes. 44h
Why It Pays to Know What Your Male Colleagues Earn
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Samira Ahmed’s case against her employer the BBC illustrates the value of transparency in closing the gender pay gap.
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The Atlantic Samira Ahmed’s case against her employer the BBC illustrates the value of transparency in closing the gender pay gap, reports 45h
Calling Impeachment a ‘Coup’ Hurts America
Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic 6d 3 tweets
The Constitution matters. So does the English language.
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The Atlantic "Allies of President Trump ... are making constitutionally illiterate and otherwise wrongheaded arguments in an effort to cast plainly lawful impeachment proceedings as illegitimate," argues 53h
Executive Privilege Should Have No Power When It Comes to an Impeachment
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The same rules don’t apply now that the House has begun a formal impeachment inquiry.
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The Atlantic "The administration is currently asserting not only that the qualified executive privilege applies to impeachment, but that the privilege remains so important, even in impeachment, that it warrants absolute, unqualified protection," writes 54h
The Electoral College’s Racist Origins
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More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
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The Atlantic More than two centuries after the electoral college was designed to empower southern white voters, it continues to do just that, argues Wilfred Codrington III. 56h
There Will Be No Victory in Dishonor
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President Trump’s pardons for three service members accused of war crimes will have lasting consequences.
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The Atlantic "The armed forces of the United States do their outmost to fight lawfully and humanely not only because it is the right thing to do. They do their utmost because it is also the smart thing to do," writes 57h
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The Atlantic "The armed forces of the United States do their outmost to fight lawfully and humanely not only because it is the right thing to do. They do their utmost because it is also the smart thing to do," writes 3d
I Fear the Weak State
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The State Department that I once served is adrift, and its leadership is too often complicit in Trump’s worst tendencies.
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The Atlantic "If we’ve learned one thing during the impeachment inquiry, it is that we ought not to fear the revenge of the deep state. The only thing to fear is the prolonged atrophy of a weak state," writes William J. Burns, a former deputy secretary of state. 3d
What America’s Allies Really Think About Trump’s Syria Decision
Uri Friedman - The Atlantic 6d 3 tweets
During a few wild weeks in October, U.S. allies watched as their own worst nightmare befell America’s Kurdish partners in Syria. Here’s what that means for America’s standing in the world.
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The Atlantic During a few wild weeks in October, U.S. allies watched as their own worst nightmare befell America’s Kurdish partners in Syria. Here's what that means for America’s standing in the world, reports 3d
Boris Johnson Is Not Britain’s Donald Trump. Jeremy Corbyn Is.
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Corbyn and Trump are both populists and in a battle with ‘the swamp.’ Brexit aside, Johnson is not.
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The Atlantic By any serious audit of the two men and what they represent, it is not Boris Johnson who is Britain’s Trump. It’s Jeremy Corbyn, writes . 3d
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The Atlantic By any serious audit of the two men and what they represent, it is not Boris Johnson who is Britain’s Trump. It’s Jeremy Corbyn, writes . 3d
'Frozen II' Is an Enchanted Quest for Sequel Money
David Sims - The Atlantic 6d 2 tweets
Disney’s attempt to revisit the kingdom of Arendelle does little more than embellish a story that already felt complete.
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The Atlantic Disney’s effort to capitalize on the success of “Frozen” fails to capture what made the original movie so enjoyable, writes . 3d
A New Study Suggests That Apes Really Might Have a Theory of Mind
Ed Yong - The Atlantic 5d 11 tweets
The latest volley in a decades-long debate involved one scientist dressing up as King Kong and stealing from his colleague.
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The Atlantic Are apes able to understand that others might have distinct beliefs and knowledge about the world? And that those beliefs might be inaccurate? A new study suggests that they might, reports 55h
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The Atlantic Are apes able to understand that others might have distinct beliefs and knowledge about the world? And that those beliefs might be inaccurate? A new study suggests that they might, reports 3d