The Explosions at Istanbul’s Airport
Turkish media on Tuesday reported two blasts and gunfire at Ataturk airport, one of the busiest in Europe.
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Jens Meyer / AP Volkswagen’s U.S. Settlement Tops $15 Billion
In addition to compensating affected American customers, the German carmaker will dole out money to the EPA and the attorneys general of 44 states.
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Ibrahim Alaguri / AP What Happened the Night of the Benghazi Attack
House Republicans released a lengthy report on Tuesday detailing how events unfolded and criticizing the government’s response to them.
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Baloncici / Shutterstock Can Edible Ice-Cream Containers Reinvent Food Packaging?
The environmental cost of boxes, cans, and jars has sparked a movement to change how food is stored.
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Alex Brandon / AP Why the U.S. Senate Blocked Funding to Combat Zika
Democrats objected to restrictions on Planned Parenthood and other spending cuts. The bill’s failure likely ensured that Congress will miss a July 4 deadline to pass emergency aid.
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Video: The Future of Solar Energy in Los Angeles
How one neighborhood is employing women and improving the local economy.
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L.M. Otero / AP More Top StoriesRemembering Pat Summitt, the Winningest College Basketball Coach
The legendary University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach dies after battling Alzheimer’s disease. She was 64.
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Keith Srakocic / AP More Top StoriesTrump’s Shockingly Specific Speech on Trade
Footnotes. Numbers. Detailed proposals. The Donald’s economic address at an aluminum factory in Pennsylvania had it all.
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Maciej Toporowicz / Getty More Top StoriesThe Jihad Will Be Televised
The sinister narcissism of ISIS and its lone-wolf emulators.
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Neil Hall / Reuters More Top StoriesBritain, Post-Brexit
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn says he won’t resign after losing a vote of no confidence among party MPs.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters More Top StoriesAsian Americans and the Future of Affirmative Action
The way members of the ‘model minority’ are treated in elite-college admissions could affect race-based standards moving forward.
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NBC More Top StoriesWhy Seth Meyers Can’t Get Enough of Trump
The Late Night host discusses the pleasures of satirizing the presumptive GOP nominee and the rise of topical humor on his show.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters More Top StoriesHow Semi-Secret Spending Took Over Politics
State and local super PACs are increasingly reliant on “grey money”—donations that trace back to other PACs—obscuring their actual sources of support.
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Reuters / Carlo Allegri More Top StoriesThe Trump Campaign Just Became Literature
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a new short story: a Virginia Woolf-inflected ode to Melania Trump.
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Neil Hall / Reuters GlobalShould the Brexit Vote Have Happened at All?
Critics claim voters were unqualified to decide such a complicated issue. But democracy itself isn’t the problem.
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Burhan Ozbilici / AP GlobalIsrael and Turkey’s Rapprochement
The two allies had fallen out in 2010 after the deadly Israeli raid on a flotilla headed to the Gaza Strip.
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Tim Ireland / AP GlobalBrexit: Can They Change Their Minds?
The results of the referendum are, in theory, not legally binding.
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Toby Melville / Reuters GlobalCould Britain Break Up?
How the Brexit vote activated some of the most politically destabilizing forces threatening the U.K.
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Reinhard Krause / Reuters GlobalWho Voted for the Brexit?
Demographic data shows that a Briton’s education level may be the strongest indication of how he or she voted.
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Reuters GlobalEurope’s Counterrevolution Has Begun
Brexit could spell the “death of a certain idea of Europe,” Mark Leonard says.
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Aspen Ideas Festival
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Darley Shen / The Atlantic Aspen Ideas Festival‘Return on Investment’: The Narrow, Short-Sighted Finance Concept That Has Taken Over Society
There’s more to life than can be measured in monetary returns.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Aspen Ideas FestivalWhy America’s Business Majors Are in Desperate Need of a Liberal-Arts Education
Their degrees may help them secure entry-level jobs, but to advance in their careers, they’ll need much more than technical skills.
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Ross Andersen Aspen Ideas FestivalAlien Worlds Might Be Covered in Enormous Mountains
On the sublime scenery that might await us on exoplanets
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Felipe Dana / AP Aspen Ideas FestivalThe Cable Empire Strikes Back
The 2016 Olympics will be a test of how well Comcast and NBC can deliver live programming in the digital, on-demand era.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Aspen Ideas FestivalThe Long-Term Risks of Early Puberty
Girls who start to develop at young ages—as more and more of them are—are at risk for a host of physical and psychological problems.
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VideoThe Lost Girls of Myanmar
Thousands of young women leave rural villages in search of work abroad. These are some of their stories.
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VideoLisbon’s Anti-Establishment, Wall-Destroying Street Artist
Alexandre Farto, known as Vhils, uses a carving technique that makes portraits out of the layers of a building.
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VideoWhat Is Your Outlook on the Future of the U.S.?
Americans in four cities share their views for the Aspen Ideas Festival.
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VideoThe Torment of Solitary Confinement
Inmates in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Unit (SHU) spend 22.5 hours of the day in a windowless cell. Here are their experiences.
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VideoThe Courage to Perform Abortions
Dr. Willie Parker travels to Mississippi every month to the last clinic where women can go to to receive abortion care.
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Politics & Policy
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Politics & PolicyThe U.S. Supreme Court’s Immigration Case Wasn’t About Presidental Power
Obama has taken credit for his administration’s deferred-action program. But legally speaking, this challenge was about something else.
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Kia Gregory Politics & PolicyA New Battle for the Soul of Harlem
Representative Charlie Rangel is retiring, and nine Democrats are competing in to replace him—including a ghost from Rangel’s past: His predecessor’s son, Adam Clayton Powell IV.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Politics & PolicyThe Rules for Abortion Are Still Rules—Not Loopholes
Texas’s H.B.2 statute imposed regulations that yielded no health benefit but made abortion a lot harder to get. The Supreme Court wasn’t fooled.
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Alex Brandon / AP Politics & PolicyThe Senate Races to Battle Zika and Help Puerto Rico
Lawmakers are struggling to pass a pair of emergency bills before they leave for a July 4 recess.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Politics & PolicyThe Fictions Around Abortion in America
The Supreme Court has struck down parts of a major Texas law regulating access to the procedure. To do so, it had to navigate competing claims of medical fact and an intent to protect women.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Politics & PolicyDonald Trump Issues a Warning to Republicans
The party's presumptive nominee and the Republican National Committee are working together to avoid a revolt at the July convention, according to The New York Times.
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Alex Brandon / AP Politics & PolicyThe Politicians Who Stayed Quiet on the Supreme Court's Corruption Ruling
They had plenty to say about the justices’ decision on abortion, but went silent on the ruling that could affect them the most.
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Science
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NASA / The Atlantic ScienceThe Future of Archaeology Is ‘Spacejunk’
Museum tours may one day rocket beyond Earth to explore abandoned satellites and derelict spacecraft.
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Yamini Jangir and Moh El-Naggar / Quanta ScienceThe Electricity Eaters
Energy-sucking bacteria on rocks beneath the planet’s surface may provide a blueprint for life on other worlds.
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Lockheed Martin ScienceSending an Armored Tank to Outer Space
The spacecraft Juno was designed to make it all the way to Jupiter, then orbit the planet without getting destroyed.
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Johannes Simon / Getty ScienceThe Push to Make Pears the New Apples
A horticulturist wants a different fruit to rule America’s grocery aisles.
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Pierre Albouy / Reuters ScienceBritain’s Shaky Status as a Scientific Superpower
Researchers say the country’s decision to leave the EU will reverse decades of academic gains.
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The Atlantic ScienceIs Middle America Due for a Huge Earthquake?
In the early 19th century, a series of massive quakes rocked Missouri. Some experts predict that the state could be in for another round of violent shaking.
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Russellstreet / Flickr ScienceThe Contagious Cancer That Jumps Between Species
It has spread from one clam species to another, and is one of now eight transmissible tumors.
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Osman Orsal / Reuters Today's NewsletterThe Atlantic Daily: Istanbul Bombing, Brexit Fallout, Outer Space Junk
Attacker struck a busy Turkish airport, British political parties were in turmoil, scholars considered archaeology’s next frontier, and more.
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic Why the Marijuana Business Is Appealing to Female Entrepreneurs
So much about selling legal cannabis remains to be worked out—including the industry’s gender norms.
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Business
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Wikimedia BusinessWould a Work-Free World Be So Bad?
Fears of civilization-wide idleness are based too much on the downsides of being unemployed in a society premised on the concept of employment.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters BusinessThe Case for Unions to Support a Universal Basic Income
How Andy Stern, the former head of the 2-million-strong SEIU, came around to the idea of giving everyone, even non-workers, a monthly stipend.
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Marcelo Del Pozo / Reuters BusinessThe Millennials Balancing Their Parents’ Job Searches With Their Own
Young adults have a reputation for leaning heavily on their mothers and fathers. For some families, though, the support flows the other way.
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Eric Vidal / Reuters BusinessWhy Brexit Is So Bad for the Global Economy
The regulations and trade negotiations will be a nightmare to sort out, but the scariest part right now is the uncertainty.
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Damir Sagolj / Reuters BusinessVolkswagen’s $10 Billion Settlement
The German carmaker will reportedly offer thousands of dollars in compensation to American owners, in addition to the opportunity to sell back their cars.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters BusinessWhat the U.S. Can Learn From Canada About Immigration
Canada’s new immigration system reveals a different set of priorities—and a different way of thinking about immigration.
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Joshua Lott / AP BusinessMade in China: America’s Appetite for Assault Weapons
For a while, gun hobbyists saw military-style weapons as inefficient and too expensive. An influx of foreign knock-offs changed their minds.
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Bernadett Szabo / Reuters TechnologyThe Ultimate Facial-Recognition Algorithm
New research finds that machines designed to identify people still have difficulty with accuracy as datasets grow.
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European Space Agency / Hubble / NASA TechnologyWant to Find Intelligent Life on Other Planets? Look for Refrigerators
Could Freon in the atmosphere of a distant planet be the thing that finally confirms humankind is not alone?
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Stephen Lam / Getty Images TechnologyHow to Get People to Embrace Technological Change
Facebook users threaten violent revolution every time the site tweaks its design. Is there a way to innovate without upsetting anyone?
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Google / Landsat TechnologyGoogle’s Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover
It’s the cloudless map’s first major makeover since 2013.
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Reinhard Krause / Reuters TechnologyThe Things People Googled After Britain Voted to Leave the EU
In times of uncertainty, search engines become oracles.
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Timur Emek / Getty TechnologyThe Military Origins of the Cardigan
The popular sweater has a revolutionary history that includes Riot Grrrls and Coco Chanel. An Object Lesson.
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STX Productions CultureThe Faux-Woke State of Jones
Free State of Jones is a predictable but instructive journey of white saviorhood.
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Tidal CultureKanye West’s ‘Famous’ Indecency
The rapper has said celebrities shouldn't be disrespected, and yet here are nine minutes of naked Taylor Swift.
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HBO CultureGame of Thrones: The Head That Wears the Crown
Three Atlantic staffers discuss “The Winds of Winter,” the tenth and final episode of the sixth season.
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Flickr / UCLA Library Special Collections CultureBlack Flag’s Psychic Imprint
A look at the punk band’s cultural impact, 30 years after its last live show
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HBO CultureVeep Goes Tragi-Karmic
The show that has so steadfastly refused accountability for its cast of bumbling characters experiments with comeuppance.
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Gary Gershoff / Getty Images CultureThe Urgency of LGBT History After Orlando
Logo’s Trailblazer Honors was suffused with the feeling of vulnerability and anger of many queer people in recent days.
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M. Osterreicher / ESPN Films CultureO.J. Simpson and the Counter-Revolution of 1968
Thoughts on the first episode of ESPN’s five-part documentary
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Atlas of Clinical Medicine HealthHow Syphilis Came Roaring Back
The 18th-century ailment was on the brink of elimination before budget cuts helped bring it back.
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Bill Records / NBC HealthThe Power of Casual Gratitude
On swallowing “sorry”s and replacing them with simple “thank you”s
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The Aspen Institute / Photo by Dan Bayer HealthWhat Is Gender, Anyway?
Thoughts from Caitlyn Jenner, Mona Eltahawy, and Bisi Alimi on stigma and pushing beyond the binary.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters HealthThe Long-Term Risks of Early Puberty
Girls who start to develop at young ages—as more and more of them are—are at risk for a host of physical and psychological problems.
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Bill Haber / AP HealthThe Complicated Connection Between Football and ALS
The film Gleason explores the heartbreaking toll of Lou Gehrig’s disease on a young athlete.
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Bill Haber / AP HealthThe Complicated Connection Between Football and ALS
The film Gleason explores the heartbreaking toll of Lou Gehrig’s disease on a young athlete.
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Keith Bedford / Reuters HealthHow Can We Get More Living Organ Donors?
Allowing people to sell organs is a fraught issue, but maybe they could be reimbursed for the costs of donation.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP EducationCivics Lessons From the House Democrats’ Sit-In
The protest teaches kids about media literacy, the legislative process, and the repercussions of prolonged congressional gridlock.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters EducationAre There Good Alternatives to Affirmative Action?
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the use of race in some admissions decisions, but it doesn’t mean all colleges are free to employ the practice.
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters EducationIs Estonia the New Finland?
With a focus on equity, the northern European country has quietly joined the ranks of the global education elite.
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Sam Price-Waldman / The Atlantic EducationWhere Are All the Principals of Color?
As the public-school population continues to grow more diverse, the percentage of nonwhite school leaders has remained relatively stagnant.
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John Bazemore / AP EducationHow to Get More Men of Color Teaching in the Classroom
Only 8 percent of educators are nonwhite males in New York City, where Asian, black, and Hispanic boys make up 43 percent of public-school students.
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Purple Turtle Photography / Getty EducationThe Complex Lives of Babies
A new documentary explores how early experiences drive development.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP U.S.Prison by Algorithm
A U.S Senate bill aims to decrease recidivism rates, likely using statistical models. Results from this kind of effort have been mixed.
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Arizona Department of Corrections / Reuters U.S.Arizona’s Death Penalty Fades Away
Drug shortages have left the state unable to perform executions, officials told a federal court Friday.
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Deborah Fallows U.S.What Rural Economies Look Like From Above
In Kansas, the advent of an energy industry is inscribing itself on the physical landscape, adding wind farms to wheat farms.
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Blueraspberry / Wikimedia U.S.Stoking Debate at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Which issues deserve to be discussed more widely, vigorously, or robustly?
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Jonathan Alcorn / Reuters U.S.The Supreme Court Has Left an Undocumented Workforce in Limbo
With its ruling in Texas v. United States, millions of immigrant workers and their employers face an uncertain future.
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Emily Berl / The Atlantic U.S.‘A Social Worker in a Robe’
One judge faces criticism from colleagues and professional stigma for doing what he thinks is right.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters U.S.America’s ‘Brexit’ Is Coming
The U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union betrays a failure of empathy and imagination among its leaders. Will America’s political establishment fare any better?
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Phil Toledano In This IssueHow American Politics Went Insane
It happened gradually—and until the U.S. figures out how to treat the problem, it will only get worse.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic The Stigma of Running an Abortion Clinic in a Conservative Town
“They’re next to the fence telling you how bad you are and that you’ll be hurt when you go in those doors, or that an ambulance was just here a little while back taking a woman out of the back.”
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VideoBeing Transgender in the Deep South
The short film, Kayla, explores a young man's evolution on his gender and sexual identity in the Mississippi Delta.
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VideoYoung, Gay, and Palestinian
A new documentary explores what can sometimes feel like conflicting identities.
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Elijah Nouvelage / Reuters In Photos: A Weekend of Pride
Two weeks after the Orlando shooting, the LGBTQ communities in San Francisco and New York held their annual parades.
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2016
The Aspen Ideas Festival is now underway. Click through to watch full sessions from the Aspen campus. The Festival is co-hosted by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic.
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