Munich Mall Shooting: What We Know
Eight people are dead in a shooting near a popular shopping mall in the German city, police say.
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Global
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One Australian Muslim’s surprising response to calls for a Muslim ban
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Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters GlobalMotorbikes in Hanoi and Libraries in Prague: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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AP GlobalMunich Mall Shooting: What We Know
Police have rushed to a popular shopping mall in the German city.
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Edgar Su / Reuters GlobalThe Mysterious Disappearance of Flight 370 Will Remain a Mystery
Malaysia, Australia, and China, have suspended the search for the plane that vanished with 239 people aboard.
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Rodrigo Abd / AP GlobalWhy Is Christine Lagarde Standing Trial?
At issue are payouts made to a tycoon when the IMF chief was the French finance minister.
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Jim Young / Reuters GlobalNATO Shmato?
Donald Trump’s apparent rejection of the cornerstone of global security after World War II has stunned U.S. partners in the alliance.
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Karhan Ozer / Presidential Palace / Reuters GlobalHow Erdogan Made Turkey Authoritarian Again
It wasn't so long ago that the Turkish leader was seen as a model democrat in the Islamic world. What happened?
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Oregon Historical Society The Racist History of Portland, the Whitest City in America
It’s known as a modern-day hub of progressivism. but its past is one of exclusion.
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Lukas Schulze / Getty Munich Mall Shooting: What We Know
Police have rushed to a popular shopping mall in the German city.
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Donald Trump's Weird and Wild Post-RNC Speech
The morning after he accepted the Republican nomination with a serious, long speech, Trump dredged up old feuds, praised the National Enquirer, and had his fun.
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Miguel Vidal / Reuters The Pull of Personal Stylists in the Online-Shopping Era
Rachel Venrick, who works at the Nordstrom at the Mall of America, talks about how retailers are using old-school amenities to get people in the door.
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Daniel Munoz / Reuters Radical Fear Meets Radical Empathy
One Australian Muslim’s surprising response to calls for a Muslim ban
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Paramount Star Trek Beyond Is the Blockbuster America Needs Right Now
Justin Lin’s rollicking action-adventure sequel is a paean to unity, teamwork, and the best qualities of humanity.
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Video: The Search for 'Earth Proxima'
A short film about a team of scientists and their mission to build a powerful telescope to explore exoplanets.
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Conventions 2016
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Conventions 2016The Triumph of the Chaos Candidate
Donald Trump took the freak show of American politics and made it the main event. But now he says he wants to be the candidate of calm.
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Conventions 2016Anger in Cleveland
If there’s one thing everyone can agree on at the Republican Convention, it’s how they feel about Hillary Clinton.
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John Minchillo / AP Conventions 2016Dispatch From a Ghost Town
Amid the chaos of the Republican National Convention, the city of Cleveland was quiet.
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Evan Vucci / AP Conventions 2016The Art of Deception
Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention speech was full of misleading statements, twisted facts, and false characterizations.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Conventions 2016Donald Trump’s Bad Bet on Anger
In his speech to the Republican National Convention, the presidential nominee revealed a deeply flawed political strategy.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Conventions 2016When Treason Becomes Patriotism
Will the men and women who sabotaged the Republican party also be the ones to save it?
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Denis Sinyakov / Reuters Conventions 2016It's Official: Hillary Clinton is Running Against Vladimir Putin
Fulfilling what might be the Russian autocrat’s dearest wish, Trump has openly questioned whether the U.S. should keep its commitments to NATO.
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Politics & Policy
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Politics & PolicyDo Republicans Think Trump Can Win?
Nonpartisan prognosticators and party officials seem bleak about the GOP’s chances in November. But delegates in Cleveland were at least somewhat more optimistic.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Politics & PolicyWhy Democrats and Republicans Speak Different Languages
The Republican National Convention proved yet again that the GOP talks about America and U.S. policy with an entire unique vocabulary. It hasn’t always been this way.
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Darren Garnick / The Atlantic Politics & PolicyCard Shark
Bikini trading-card king Brian Wallos expands his empire to politics, training his gaze on 2016’s winners, losers, and rookies as well as the future stars of 2020.
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Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Politics & PolicyPhiladelphia Has Brotherly Love for Protesters
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, police and other officials are keeping calm and carrying on.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Politics & PolicyTranslating Trump's Foreign Policy
The Republican nominee's comments to The New York Times are likely to be received very differently by his base than by Washington's elites.
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AP Politics & PolicyJohn Lewis and the Cycle of Racism in the United States
In the congressman’s graphic novel, March, the violence of the civil-rights era feels familiar.
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Evan Vucci / AP Politics & PolicyDo Republicans Still Think America Is Exceptional?
For years, the GOP has lambasted the left for not valuing American exceptionalism. But the real challenge to American exceptionalism has been brewing on the right.
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Video
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VideoThe Confusing Lives of Chinese-American 'Satellite Babies'
Without childcare resources, some families send their children back to be cared for by relatives—only to return at the age of five.
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VideoThe Tiny Irish Island That Will Welcome American Refugees
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VideoDavid Lynch on Where Great Ideas Come From
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VideoAging and Alone in Manhattan's Chinatown
A short documentary profiles the difficult lives of senior citizens who have lived in the city for decades.
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VideoA Portrait of Medicine and Tradition in India
Bonesetting is an extremely old practice that consists of manipulating joints in order to heal patients.
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Science
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Yves Herman / Reuters ScienceSome Microbes Have Been With Us Since Before We Existed
Certain gut bacteria have evolved in parallel with apes, so that their family tree perfectly mirrors our own.
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Claire Spottiswoode ScienceHow To Summon The Bird That Guides You To Honey
In a rare case of specific communication between humans and wild animals, the Yao people of Mozambique have a special call for attracting the greater honeyguide.
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Gail Burton / AP ScienceThe Gel That's Revolutionizing Pain Treatment
An injectable, jello-like substance reduces chronic inflammation, and may aid limb transplantations.
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Amir Cohen / Reuters ScienceWhat's It Like to See Ideas as Shapes?
Thoughts and feelings are constellations in the mind of a man with a rare form of synesthesia.
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Conor Lawless / Flickr ScienceHow a Guy From A Montana Trailer Park Overturned 150 Years of Biology
Biology textbooks tell us that lichens are alliances between two organisms—a fungus and an alga. They are wrong.
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Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters ScienceHow Salmonella Could Be Used to Kill Cancer
A genetically modified strain of the bacteria has successfully planted drugs in mice tumors.
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Today's Newsletter
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Today's NewsletterThe Atlantic Daily: Trump's Triumph, Shooting in Munich, Drugs of the Future
Donald Trump accepted his party’s nomination, attackers killed 8 near a German mall, researchers developed a new way of treating pain, and more.
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Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Philadelphia Has Brotherly Love for Protesters
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, police and other officials are keeping calm and carrying on.
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Technology
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Evan Vucci / AP TechnologyTrump Doesn’t Understand Cyberwar
The nominee is woefully unprepared for questions about the future of digital conflict.
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Stringer / Reuters TechnologyTwitter's Famous Racist Problem
The social network risks losing the goodwill it built up during the Arab Spring.
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Michael Kooren / Reuters TechnologyDollhouses Weren't Invented for Play
Before they were toys, “cabinet houses” and other miniature homes were used to show off wealth and teach domestic roles. An Object Lesson.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters TechnologyTwo Big Questions for Elon Musk
The Tesla CEO says it would be “morally reprehensible” to build a fully driverless car before introducing semi-autonomous safety features.
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Smithsonian Institution Archives TechnologyWhy Do Women Inventors Hold So Few Patents?
At the rate we’re going, women won’t hold as many patents as men until the year 2092.
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China Stringer Network / Reuters TechnologyUber Takes to the Skies
The satellite-imagery giant DigitalGlobe will now provide high-resolution Earth imagery to Uber.
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U.S. Air Force / AP TechnologyAmerica’s Network of Secret Bomb Detectors
Can a mysterious device help the government protect Northern Virginia from nukes?
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Health
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters HealthWhy America Is a Global Outlier on Abortion
Just like Bahrain and Belarus, the U.S. rarely funds abortions for poor women.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters HealthHow the Immune System Controls Social Behavior
Researchers have found a new link between immune dysfunction and social dysfunction.
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Beawiharta / Reuters HealthHow Noise Pollution Impairs Learning
Studies suggest word acquisition and reading are more difficult in loud environments, and poor kids may suffer disproportionately.
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Tina Berning / Spectrum Magazine HealthMaking Room for Autism in the Workplace
Virtual job interviews and office support groups are bucking the trend of underemployment for people on the spectrum.
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David McNew / Reuters HealthWhat Can't Medical Marijuana Do?
Recent studies indicate that the drug is making seniors healthier and helping stem the tide of the opioid epidemic—all while making their health care cheaper.
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Pilar Olivares / Reuters HealthA Threat Bigger Than Zika
Members of Congress left for a seven-week recess without agreeing to help fund efforts to fight the virus. Public health officials say the implications of their inaction are staggering.
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Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week 7/16 - 7/22
Unrest in Turkey, a Santa Claus competition in Denmark, virtual reality in Israel, kite running in Rio, and much more.
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Business
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Rick Wilking / Reuters BusinessWhat It’s Like to Prepare Cleveland for the Republican Convention
Brittany Williams talks about getting ready for one of the biggest national political events just four weeks after the city won an NBA championship.
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Bruno Levesque / Getty Images BusinessHotels: Pretty Okay With Their Customers' Porn-Watching Habits
As more businesses block access to certain internet content on personal devices, the hospitality industry is finding it lucrative not to.
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Mark Lennihan / AP BusinessWhat Happens When There Are Limits on Bankers’ Bonuses?
It makes a bunch of risk-takers less likely to take risks.
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Reuters BusinessA Former Wall Street Trader on Why He Left Banking
“You can feel like making $800,000 is almost like living in poverty."
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters BusinessDo Parts of the Rust Belt ‘Need to Die Off’?
Texas A&M's Galen Newman argues that some of America's struggling cities should embrace—and plan around—their decline.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters BusinessThe Return of American Hunger
An uneven recovery and new food-stamp restrictions have left millions more people short on food.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters BusinessHow Much Are America's National Parks Worth?
Researchers have assessed the value of places like Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, and while their answer isn’t “priceless,” it’s pretty close.
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Culture
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Paramount CultureStar Trek Beyond Is the Blockbuster America Needs Right Now
Justin Lin’s rollicking action-adventure sequel is a paean to unity, teamwork, and the best qualities of humanity.
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CBS CultureJon Stewart's Well-Timed Comeback
Taking over Stephen Colbert’s Late Show to blast Fox News, the former ‘Daily Show’ host was unapologetically partisan while also seeking to build bridges.
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Warner Bros. CultureBatman: The Killing Joke Predicted the Bleak State of Superheroes
The new Joker feature is based on a 1988 graphic novel that's memorable for its darkness.
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Charles Sykes / AP CultureMike Birbiglia's Quiet Ambition
The director of Don’t Think Twice discusses his comedic path and dodging fame.
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Lionsgate CultureCafé Society and the Twilight of Woody Allen
He is prolific, but does he have anything left to say?
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Bob Donnan / USA Today Sports CultureThe NBA’s Reaction to North Carolina’s ‘Bathroom Bill’
The league will move the 2017 All-Star Game because of the law.
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Matt Sayles / AP CultureRemembering Garry Marshall
The creator of the legendary sitcoms Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, and director of Pretty Woman and Beaches, died Tuesday at the age of 81.
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Education
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Randall Hill / Reuters EducationThe E-Reader: The Most Daunting Anthology
What is lost when the vast expanse of the internet’s literature is at a student’s fingertips?
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters EducationShould Students Learn About Black Lives Matter in School?
The lengthy timelines of publishing new history textbooks—and the problematic narratives those books often present—push primary resources to the forefront of current-events education.
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Guadalupe Pardo / Reuters EducationWhy California Is Teaching Its Students About the LGBT Community
The state’s public-school curriculum is poised to require more representation of LGBT contributions beginning in second grade.
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Ahmed Ali / AP EducationAfter Terror in France and Unrest in Turkey, Schools Grapple With Whether to Send Students Abroad
Some colleges have suspended entire programs because of fears of terrorism, while others are running them as usual.
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Randall Hill / Reuters EducationThe E-Reader: The Most Daunting Anthology
What is lost when the vast expanse of the internet’s literature is at a student’s fingertips?
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Alex Zimmerman / Chalkbeat EducationHigh School Without Classes
Bronx Arena High School is engaging its high-need students by eliminating formal classes in favor of self-guided learning.
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Jason Redmond / Reuters EducationThe Long-Term Effects of Social-Justice Education on Black Students
A new study shows such courses prompted self-exploration and openness in marginalized kids.
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U.S.
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Mark Lennihan / AP U.S.The Cost of Athletes Taking Political Stands
The WNBA fined teams and players for wearing black warm-up shirts to protest police-involved shootings.
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Fred Prouser / Reuters U.S.Exit, Roger Ailes
The Fox News chairman’s departure from the network he helped create followed allegations of sexual harassment by Gretchen Carlson, a former host.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters U.S.A Victory For Voting Rights in Texas
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals strikes down the state’s strict voter-ID law.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters U.S.No More Twitter for the Internet's Self-Proclaimed 'Supervillain'
Milo Yiannopoulos was banned after hateful messages received by Leslie Jones, a star of the new Ghostbusters movie.
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Marco Garcia / AP U.S.A Hawaii Congressman Dies After a Months-Long Cancer Fight
Mark Takai used his personal experience with pancreatic cancer to advocate more research.
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AP U.S.That Wasn't An Earthquake
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 3.7-magnitude “earthquake” in Florida over the weekend, but what was it really?
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Max Becherer / AP U.S.The Unsolved Violence of Baton Rouge
After years of racial and economic tension, the Louisiana city must wrestle with the shootings of Alton Sterling and six police officers.
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Denis Sinyakov / Reuters It's Official: Hillary Clinton Is Running Against Vladimir Putin
“Unlike Trump, leaders of countries like Estonia believe that the U.S. still represents the best hope for freedom.”
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Video
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VideoWill the Middle East Ever Be Secular?
Islam is fundamentally different than other religions when it comes to how it functions within law and politics.
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VideoSex and the Senior Center
Seniors are an overlooked segment of the population when it comes to talking about physical intimacy.
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Events
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The Atlantic at the 2016 Democratic National Convention
The Atlantic will be in Philadelphia for a range of events discussing issues of consequence to everyday Americans and shed light on the vision and policy goals of the Democratic nominee.
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