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When Anxiety Is Not a Superpower...
There is no feeling or metaphysical concept that Pixar Animation Studios can’t turn into some sort of blob. This was my ...
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The Secret Code of Pickup Basketball...
The only immovable object on my weekly calendar is a Sunday-night basketball game. We play in a rented gym in Washington ...
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Donald Trump’s Message to Milwaukee...
Donald Trump has long cultivated an image as a salt-of-the-earth, everyday American who loves the parts of the nation th ...
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The Decline of Streaking...
Fifty years ago, you couldn’t watch a live televised event without the possibility that a nude person might beeline past ...
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What Children Remember About Their Fathers...
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and ...
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<em>Bridgerton</em> Faces the Limits of Romantic F...
This story contains spoilers for the entirety of Bridgerton Season 3.The resident bully of Bridgerton, Cressida Cowper, ...
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The ‘Jimmy Clean Hands’ Election...
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you ...
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Boston Should Rename Its Airport for Bill Russell...
It’s a fun time to be a fan of the Boston Celtics. It is also a fraught time, given how polarizing the franchise—and the ...
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The Most Influential Climate-Disaster Thriller of ...
Lee Isaac Chung was a junior in high school in 1996 when he and his father walked into a theater in Fayetteville, Arkans ...
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Rachel Cusk’s Lonely Experiment...
Start, as one tends to do in Rachel Cusk’s writing, with a house. It is not yours, but instead a farmhouse on the island ...
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The Harlem Renaissance Was Bigger Than Harlem...
Sometimes it’s the sleepers that stay with you. In “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” a sprawling exh ...
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Americans Are Mad About All the Wrong Costs...
The Great Inflation is, thank goodness, over.Four years ago, the coronavirus pandemic kinked the planet’s supply chains, ...
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One Satellite Crash Could Upend Modern Life...
Updated at 5:03 p.m. ET on June 14, 2021Earlier this year, two satellites from two adversarial countries nearly collided ...
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What Writer’s Block Feels Like...
This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. Nearly ev ...
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For Hamas, Everything Is Going According to Plan...
The leaders of both Israel and Hamas seem content for the war in Gaza to grind on into the indefinite future. Such is th ...
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You Have Every Reason to Avoid Breathing Wildfire ...
Summertime in North America is becoming smoke season. Last summer, when a haze from catastrophic Canadian wildfires hung ...
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A Generation of AI Guinea Pigs...
This spring, the Los Angeles Unified School District—the second-largest public school district in the United States—intr ...
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The Era of Inescapable AI...
This is Atlantic Intelligence, a limited-run series in which our writers help you wrap your mind around artificial intel ...
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An All-American Hot-Dog Controversy...
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The Humbling of Narendra Modi...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed subdued when India’s election results were declared on June 4. His Bharatiya Janata ...
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