What About Nagasaki?
President Obama only visited Hiroshima, one of two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
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Kyodo / Reuters More Top StoriesWhat About Nagasaki?
President Obama only visited Hiroshima, one of two cities on which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
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Mike Blake / Reuters More Top StoriesThe Trumpian Divide
The 2016 campaign has revealed an America of stark division and mutual animosity.
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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters More Top StoriesThe Voters Who Want Islam Out of Germany
Demographic patterns behind support for the radical right are similar in Europe and the United States.
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Andrew Harnik / AP More Top StoriesThe Real Scandal of Hillary Clinton’s Emails
It’s not what she wrote—it’s her tendency to wall herself off from alternative points of view.
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters More Top StoriesThe Auction of Native American Artifacts
Next week an auction house in France will sell hundreds of Native American items, some of which are considered sacred.
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Eduard Korniyenko / Reuters More Top StoriesWhy Some Cultures Frown on Smiling
Finally, an explanation for Bitchy Resting Face Nation
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HBO More Top StoriesThe Ethics of Hodor
A conversation about how the show’s latest twist fits in with George R.R. Martin’s typically cliché-busting portrayal of disability
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Jason Reed / Reuters More Top StoriesShould Airports Privatize Security to Avoid Long Lines?
Some U.S. cities are looking into hiring private contractors and moving away from the TSA after a month of historically long lines.
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Global
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Shuji Kajiyama / AP GlobalObama’s Historic Hiroshima Visit
The president is the first sitting American leader to make a trip to the city that was bombed by the U.S. with a nuclear device.
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Ramon Espinosa / AP GlobalDigital Suits in Cuba and Bank Secrets in Switzerland: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Wikimedia Commons GlobalAristotle’s Tomb Found?
A Greek archaeologist says he has located the classical philosopher’s final resting place.
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AP GlobalHiroshima and the Politics of Apologizing
It’s hard to say sorry. Especially when you’re doing it for a whole country.
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Charles Platiau / Reuters GlobalThe Wave of Protests and Strikes in France
Demonstrators campaigning against the government’s proposed labor reforms clashed Thursday with police in cities across the country.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP GlobalPresident Obama: World Leaders Are ‘Rattled’ by Trump
Speaking in Japan, Obama also explained the tense race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders by saying: “They are in the course of a primary.”
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Consorzio di Promozione Turistica di Cortina d’Ampezzo GlobalThe Town in Italy Where Most Women Are Barred From Inheriting Land
“It’s not fair that a brother has certain rights and a sister does not. It’s 2016.”
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters How America Lost Its Mojo
U.S. dynamism is in the dumps: Americans are less likely to switch jobs, move to another state, or create new companies than they were 30 years ago (or 100 years ago). What’s going on?
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters A Dialogue With a 22-Year-Old Donald Trump Supporter
He lives near San Francisco, makes more than $50,000 per year, and is voting for the billionaire to fight against political correctness.
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White People vs. White Privilege
In certain corners of the country, white Americans are not only embracing the concept, but deciding that it might be key to resolving racial inequalities.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Verizon’s ‘Agreement In Principle’ With Union Workers
Friday’s deal would put more than 35,000 people back to work.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Price of Public Money
The Presidential Election Campaign Fund used to give political unknowns a fighting shot. Now $300 million sits in the fund—and no one wants anything to do with it. Can campaign spending be fixed?
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Dave Kettering / Dubuque Telegraph Herald / AP Iowa’s Supreme Court Rules on Life Sentence Without Parole for Juveniles
The court ruled 4-3 Friday the punishment was cruel and unusual under the state’s constitution.
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Video: Inside the Thorny Art Gallery Ecosystem
A short film on how the tricky business of buying and dealing artwork has evolved
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Video
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VideoMarching Band and the Tenacity of Youth
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VideoCrossing the Border Into a Precarious Life
A short film sheds light on how, when you're undocumented, even the smallest interactions with law enforcement are risky.
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VideoYour Probiotics Aren’t Doing Anything (Yet)
If you want to help your bacteria, build them a nice place to live.
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VideoIn India, Trained Parakeets Will Tell Your Future
A short film goes inside a popular form of astrology in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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VideoThe Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry of Art Auctions
A short film explains how the unregulated market fuels astronomical prices.
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Politics & Policy
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Rick Bowmer / AP Politics & PolicyIf the U.S. Made People Do Good, Would That Be Bad?
Senator Mike Lee fears enrolling women in the Selective Service is a dangerous precedent that may lead to mandatory service for things like national security and the public good.
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Politics & PolicyWhere Republicans Stand on Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Politics & PolicyThis Is How a Revolution Ends
The Democratic insurgent’s campaign is losing steam—but his supporters are not ready to give up.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Politics & PolicyThe Humbling of Paul Ryan
A gay-rights amendment takes down a House appropriations bill, and with it might go the speaker’s grand plan to revive the congressional spending process.
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Jim Urquhart / Reuters Politics & PolicyA Trumpist Workers’ Party Manifesto
Abandoning the low-tax, small-government orthodoxy of the GOP, its nominee says he envisions the Republican Party of the future as a “workers’ party.”
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Seth Wenig / AP Politics & PolicyWhen Will Sanders Start to Help His Party Heal?
Clinton has built dominant leads in delegates and the popular vote, but the tenacious Vermont senator is blocking her effort to consolidate support.
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Timothy D. Easley / AP Politics & PolicyBattle of the Surrogates
Hillary Clinton can call on just about any elected official in the Democratic Party, including a past and current president. Donald Trump, not so much.
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Science
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Vanhollebeke et al. ScienceUsing CRISPR to Learn How a Body Builds Itself
The popular gene-editing technique can deliver a step-by-step account of how a single-cell embryo becomes a trillion-cell animal.
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ESA / DLR / FU-Berlin / Ralf Jaumann ScienceThe Red Planet Is Not Always Red
New research suggests Mars is emerging from an ice age that once covered it in frost.
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Etienne Fabre / SSAC ScienceA Shocking Find in a Neanderthal Cave in France
A rock structure, built deep underground, is one of the earliest hominin constructions ever found.
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Michael Conroy / AP ScienceHow to Sound Charismatic
A researcher examines how politicians change their pitch and volume to attract voters
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Romano Dallai ScienceThis Fly’s Sperm Is One Thousand Times Longer Than Human Sperm
“If a man produced sperm that big, it would stretch diagonally across a basketball court.”
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STR New / Reuters ScienceAre Dams Robbing the West of Water?
On the Colorado River, one of America’s largest reservoirs may be doing more harm than good.
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Nir Elias / Reuters ScienceYour Spare Computing Power Could Help Fight Zika
Scientists are using a network called the World Community Grid to process huge amounts of data in an attempt to understand how to tackle the virus.
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Today's Newsletter
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Today's NewsletterThe Atlantic Daily: Obama in Hiroshima, North Korea’s Heists, Verizon Deal Reached
A U.S. president visits the Japanese city for the first time, Pyongyang is linked to hacking of Asian banks, the telecom giant’s strike nears an end, and more.
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Fiona Hanson / AP Colleges Pledge to Send More Students Abroad
Right now, only about 10 percent of Americans study in a foreign country during school.
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Culture
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Disney CultureAlice Through the Looking Glass Is a $170 Million Shrug
The non-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s 2010 fantasy spectacle seems almost aware of its own pointlessness.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters CultureWeiner: The Story of a Marriage
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20th Century Fox CultureX-Men: Apocalypse: A Calamitous Dud
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Valentin Flauraud / Reuters CultureFinding the Magic: The Secrets of the Music Producer Daniel Lanois
The Canadian musician, who has collaborated with Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, and U2, on his approach to performing and making records
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HBO CultureHow Should Game of Thrones Kill Its Most Evil Character Ever?
Speculation about how Ramsay Bolton might die reveals the challenges of devising a cathartic TV death—and illuminates a larger issue facing the series.
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MGM CultureThelma & Louise Holds Up Well—A Little Too Well
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The Atlantic CultureI Am Your Father
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U.S.
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After a shooting at a hip-hop concert, the NYPD commissioner delivered a statement that seems straight out of the rough-and-tumble ‘90s.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters U.S.The Perils of Writing a Provocative Email at Yale
Nicholas and Erika Christakis stepped down from their positions in residential life months after student activists called for their dismissal over a Halloween kerfuffle.
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LM Otero / AP U.S.Heads Roll at Baylor University Over Sexual-Assualt Reports
The university has demoted Ken Starr, its president, and fired Art Briles, the football coach, over how complaints were handled.
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Jane Rosenberg / AP U.S.The Sad Irony of Bill Cosby Finally Being Prosecuted
More than a decade after alleging she was assaulted, Andrea Constand is still being asked what took her so long.
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Chuck Burton / AP U.S.The Death-Penalty Charges Against the Charleston Church Shooter
Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a historically black church last year.
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Rebecca Boone / AP U.S.The ‘Turmoil and Confusion’ in Portland’s Police Department
The police chief was placed on leave after he shot his friend while hunting and tried to cover it up.
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Mark Makela / Reuters U.S.Soon, Bill Cosby Will Have His Day in Court
A judge ruled Tuesday that the entertainer’s trial on charges of sexual assault can go forward.
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Evaristo Sa / AFP / Getty Photos of the Week
Estonia’s triplet Olympic Marathoners, protests in France, US special operations forces in Syria, the National Spelling Bee in Maryland, a thousand Indian Runner ducks in a South African vineyard, and much more.
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Technology
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NASA TechnologyThe Thrill of Terrapattern, a New Way to Search Satellite Imagery
Finding empty pools for skateboarding has never been so easy.
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Gus Ruelas / Reuters TechnologyPeter Thiel vs. Gawker: The Flame War’s Logical Conclusion
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Robert Kradin / AP TechnologyHow Many Stories Do Newspapers Publish Per Day?
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Osman Orsal / Reuters TechnologyCould Two People Use Real-Time Translation to Fall in Love?
New earbuds from Waverly Tech claim to translate conversations as they are happening—so someone speaking English could seamlessly flirt with a stranger talking in French.
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Pascal / Flickr TechnologyHow Legos Became More Violent
The originally peaceful building blocks have added more and more weapons since they were introduced.
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Nir Elias / Reuters TechnologyYour Spare Computing Power Could Help Fight Zika
Scientists are using a network called the World Community Grid to process huge amounts of data in an attempt to understand how to tackle the virus.
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Business
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters BusinessWhat Should the ‘Sharing Economy’ Really Be Called?
Many aren’t familiar with the term that encompasses businesses like Uber and AirBnB, while others argue that the phrase may be deceptive.
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Todd Plitt / AP BusinessThe Dow: An Index of Winners
The Dow Jones Industrial Average turns 120 years old today. While it’s a popular measure of American enterprise, it doesn’t reflect the nature of the U.S. economy.
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Dean Fosdick / AP BusinessMillennials’ Most Common Roommates: Their Parents
For the first time in over 130 years, young people are more likely to live with their mom and/or dad than with a partner.
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Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters BusinessWas the Invention of Finance Responsible for Democracy?
The ancient city of Athens paid its citizens for various civic duties, priming them into a mindset that paved the way to participatory government.
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Daniel Munoz / Reuters BusinessIs Going Into Finance Good for Society?
Whatever banking’s post-recession connotations may be, the historian William Goetzmann argues that monetary innovations have always played a critical role in developing civilization.
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Business
How to Build a Society of Equally Involved Parents
Start in the weeks after birth, with equal leave for parents of any gender.
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Brendan McDermid / Reuters BusinessThe Basic Financial Tool That Can Help the Unemployed Find Better Jobs
Without credit, they're more likely to settle for lower-paying gigs.
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Health
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Ints Kalnins / Reuters HealthA Drug Factory the Size of a Refrigerator
A new machine could cut medication costs by allowing hospitals and pharmacies to make their own pills.
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Esby / Wikimedia HealthAwake in a Nightmare
From ancient demons to alien abductions, paranormal tales reveal that “sleep paralysis” may be as old as sleep itself.
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AP HealthToxic Substances Will Now Be Somewhat Regulated
How the first ever update to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 finally came to pass—and what it lacks.
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Eric Greenberg HealthWhere Is All the Autism Funding?
The federal government requires states to accommodate children on the spectrum, but it provides no financial assistance for them to do so.
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Claudia Daut / Reuters HealthOne Parent’s Twitter Campaign to Get Her Daughter a Wheelchair
With #ellaneedswheels, a mother took on the insurance company that wouldn’t cover her mysteriously paralyzed child.
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Bryan Snyder / Reuters HealthHow to Preserve Your Mental Health Despite the 2016 Election
First, know that some anxiety is normal.
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Education
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Brennan Linsley / AP EducationThe Colorado Paradox
The state has low unemployment and increasing jobs, but its future workforce may not be equipped to fill them.
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cliff1066 / Wikimedia EducationWhat Are Massachusetts Public Schools Doing Right?
Widely seen as the best public-school system in the U.S., the Massachusetts school system’s success can offer lessons to other states.
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Mark Lennihan / AP EducationA Status Update on All Those Testing Opt-Outs
Many families this year have chosen to boycott state-mandated assessments as an act of civil disobedience, and the consequences are—and continue to be—complicated.
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Ted S. Warren / AP EducationThe Challenge of Educational Inequality
With whites now making up less than half of America’s K-12 students, the country’s success or failure in the 21st century will be decided in the classroom.
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Mel Evans / AP EducationA University That Prioritizes the Students Who Are Often Ignored
With the national college-graduation rate for black students half that of whites, this school is changing the rules of the game—and beating the odds.
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Raheb Homavandi / Reuters EducationWhy Young Kids Learn Through Movement
Children acquire knowledge by acting and then reflecting on their experiences, but such opportunities are increasingly rare in school.
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In This Issue
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Timothy A. Clary / AFP / Getty Images In This IssueThe Mind of Donald Trump
Narcissism, disagreeableness, grandiosity—a psychologist investigates how Trump’s extraordinary personality might shape his possible presidency.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Killing Dylann Roof
“Even if nonviolence isn’t always the answer, King reminds us to work for a world where it is.”
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