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J-School for Jerks

How you, too, can learn to behave like Bill O'Reilly

Primary Sources

Hizbollah's new toy; America's "Pedestrian Danger Index"; the perils of dialing drunk

Feeling Entitled?

Huey Long's aspiration—"Every man a king!"—is at last within our grasp

55 Years Ago in The Atlantic

"My Father: Leslie Stephen"

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A look at some of the files compiled by human-rights researchers documenting the horrors of Saddam's Iraq.

Fatal Vision

Richard Clarke talks about his frightening scenario of an America hobbled by terrorism—and what we can do to avoid it

Ten Years Later

"Then the second wave of al-Qaeda attacks hit America." A leading expert on counterterrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror. A frightening picture of a country still at war in 2011

Lost in the Meritocracy

How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class

One Nation, Divisible

Bipolar Disorder

A funny thing happened to many of the scholars who went out into the country to investigate the red-blue divide. They couldn't find it

Shaken and Stirred

The United States is about to experience economic upheaval on a scale unseen for generations. Will social harmony be a casualty?

Beyond Belief

The real religious divide in the United States isn't between the churched and the unchurched. It's between different kinds of believers

The Massless Media

With the mass media losing their audience to smaller, more targeted outlets, we may be headed for an era of noisy, contentious press reminiscent of the 1800s

Continental Divides

The Crescent of Crime, the Spousal Spine, the Divorce Coasts, the Righteous Region, and other sources of national greatness

Clintonism, R.I.P.

How triangulation became strangulation

Primary Sources

How car insurance causes death; the Brits and foreplay; how long could you survive without the Internet?

People to People

Some say that liberals and conservatives need to build bridges of understanding. Drawbridges might be better

45 Years Ago in The Atlantic

"The Job of the Washington Correspondent"

The Confidentiality Fetish

The problem with attorney-client privilege

Leaks and the Law

What happens when the journalistic principle of protecting confidential sources clashes with the public interest in prosecuting a crime? A cross-examination

Primary Sources

Federal air marshals behaving badly; why women get less sleep than men; divorce among born-again Christians

100 Years Ago in The Atlantic

"Remarks at the Peace Banquet"

The Media and the Military

American reporters would shudder to think that they harbor class prejudice—but they do

Now, for Tonight's Assignment ...

There's a way to raise student achievement that's sensible, cheap, and ridiculously straightforward. It'll probably go nowhere

The Big Picture

Our annual survey of the admissions landscape uncovered recent and upcoming changes to the process, growing concern about tuition increases, and serious questions about whether colleges are fulfilling their mission

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Miami: The Next Big Start-Up City?

How the city became a center for innovation

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A Brief History of Romantic Comedies

From The Atlantic's Chris Orr

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Life in 'the New Arctic'

A moving portrait of a fading landscape

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The Rise of New York City

A fascinating look at Manhattan in the 1940s

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'I Thought It Was Really Funny, but No One Else Did'

A day with New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator

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New Yorkers: The Winemaker

Make your own wine ... in New York City

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What Is Methane Hydrate?

"Flaming ice" is a vast natural energy source

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NASA's Time-Lapse of the Sun

Now with epic dubstep music

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A Video Letter From the Editor

Highlights from the May 2013 issue

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Shaken Not Tuned: Cocktail Experiments

Can a tuning fork improve a cocktail?

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The Rise of Environmentalism

Tracking 50 years, from the Love Canal disaster to Greenpeace

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Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide

'That little blonde secretary from the office?’

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New Yorkers: Vintage Vacuum-Tube Amps

Risking electric shock to restore old amplifiers

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The DIY Piano-Bicycle

Everybody needs a hobby

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