atlantic politics

The Sanford Effect

by Marc Ambinder

The GOP has lost another major personality. Here's how the governor's sins could change politics.
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atlantic correspondents

With the Marines

by Graeme Wood

Fallujah and Karmah are more stable than before. But they're not the shining successes the Marines want them to be.
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Dispatch

On Voting Rights, the Court Finds Consensus

by Mary Ellen Curtin and Matthew Dallek

Behind the Act that helped elect Obama
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dispatch

Olympic Hopefuls

by Hampton Stevens

Tokyo, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, and Madrid vie to host the 2016 games
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Idea of the Day

E-Z Pass Model for the Web

by James Fallows

How micropayments can save the press
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atlantic voices

Righteous Violence and the Civil War

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

"The black soldier was human—sometimes cowardly, sometimes brave, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying. But goddamn if he wasn't the spitting image of everything the South fought against."
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atlantic food

Lobster, Lobster Everywhere

by Corby Kummer

If fishing and marketing strategies don't change, Maine lobstermen could go the way of New England textile mill workers
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video

Leaving Home

Sandra Tsing Loh packs all of her belongings into a 10-by-10-foot U-Haul storage unit and leaves married life behind
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