The Woman Pushing Women Into Tunisia's Politics
Following the country’s 2011 revolution, Ikram Ben Said decided to figure out how to get more equal representation in the new government.
Following the country’s 2011 revolution, Ikram Ben Said decided to figure out how to get more equal representation in the new government.
During a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Tuesday, the Republican nominee made an apparent joke about the assassination of his rival.
Chris Urmson’s departure raises a host of questions about the future of driverless vehicles.
She’ll soon be hosting a VH1 cooking show with Snoop Dogg—but that’s just one more way that the “domestic diva” has transformed her brand to be at home in the age of irony.
It’s a historic appointment for the European country, but she doesn’t want to be known as “the gay minister.”
Steven Levitt, an economist and the co-author of Freakonomics, studied what happened when people made major life decisions based on random chance.
The fizzy, fermented tea is not the cure-all that its devotees want it to be, but it still might have health benefits.
The bruises on the swimmer’s body come from a “therapy" intended to improve blood flow. It actually causes blood to clot.
Israel has accused him of helping Hamas. It’s the second time this month Israel has accused someone with an international organization of helping the group.
A device plucked from 15,000 feet under the sea could help investigators understand why the cargo ship went down last October, killing 33 people.
Following the country’s 2011 revolution, Ikram Ben Said decided to figure out how to get more equal representation in the new government.
Saudi-led airstrikes killed at least 13 people in the Yemeni capital after UN-sponsored peace talks broke down over the weekend.
It’s a historic appointment for the European country, but she doesn’t want to be known as “the gay minister.”
Irom Chanu Sharmila began her fast in 2000 to end a law that grants India’s military expansive powers, which human-rights groups have criticized as draconian.
Damage to the Syrian city’s infrastructure has put more than two million people at risk of living without proper access to water.
Since 9/11, the United States has spent $1 trillion to defend against al-Qaeda and ISIL, dirty bombs and lone wolves, bioterror and cyberterror. Has it worked?
The senator certainly wants to—so he’s helping the former Democratic National Committee chair’s primary challenger.
The stories behind the digital age’s most iconic terms show the human side of technology.
The Democratic presidential nominee urged legislators to cut their recess short and come together during brief remarks in Miami.
Lemonade and The Life of Pablo showcase surprisingly conservative ideals about the seriousness and irreversibility of wedlock.
Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky have been fired from the venerable sketch show, which has failed to find its feet with a new cast.
It’s the terror threat no one is talking about.
FirstNet was envisioned as a way for police and firefighters to communicate with one another in the wake of 9/11. But four years later, it’s still not up and running.
Few Reconstruction-era residences from communities of former slaves are still standing today. The Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture will feature the reassembled structure of one.
In 2015, Nzingha Prescod became the first African American woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships. Now, she's competing for the United States in Rio.
A documentary explores the promise and perils of the un-indexed internet—a space for hidden revolutions, drugs, terrorism, and child pornography.
How will Chinese baby boomers impact the country's policies in the near future?
Is she too loud and monotone, or is America just sexist?
To move towards gender equality, feminism must shifts its focus to changing caregiving policies.
As Claressa Shields heads to Rio, she still hasn't received the recognition and endorsements that come to many other Olympic champions.
Donald Trump’s greatest weakness right now? White-collar whites—and their doubts were just reinforced by top Republican foreign-policy officials.
A team of workers at the Department of Homeland Security gives companies advice on protecting themselves from attacks.
National security has become a cornerstone of the case against Donald Trump—and high-profile support matters.
The Republican nominee’s push to pour more money into roads and bridges than Hillary Clinton is his latest break with conservatives, and it’s drawing criticism from one of his own economic advisers.
The U.S. House speaker faces the businessman Paul Nehlen in a contest that has shown the tension within the GOP.
An interview with the president on the challenges of homeland security in the United States.
The federal government has invested billions in preschool, but there’s still lots of room to grow.
At Virginia's Twin Oaks, land, labor, and income are distributed evenly among 100 residents.
Pokémon Go may have reached the zenith of its popularity, but the game has far-reaching implications for the future of play.
Why humans should think about technology the way field biologists examine the living world
The stories behind the digital age’s most iconic terms show the human side of technology.
Chris Urmson’s departure raises a host of questions about the future of driverless vehicles.
You’ll never guess what happened when we tried to game the social platform’s algorithm. (What happened was we wrote a bunch of terrible headlines.)
Six years ago, the world’s biggest library decided to archive every single tweet. Turns out that’s pretty hard to do.
What it’s like to see the corpse flower
Amid a funding crisis, Missouri’s top public defender appointed Governor Jay Nixon to represent a poor client.
After 30 years of development, virus-beating insects are finally being deployed in megacities around the world.
And wildfires rage in California.
Psychologists suggest there’s a sweet spot between accepting who you are and striving for who you want to be.
Thousands of twerking insects move in unison to ward off predators and cool their colonies.
Scientists finally worked out what killed a group of the creatures stranded for millennia on an island no bigger than Disney World.
A bacterial pill that tried to duplicate the benefits of a fecal transplant has failed a clinical trial. What does that mean for the microbiome field?
Some economists think that continued GDP growth will require restoring a struggling segment of the labor force to where it was before the recession.
That’s what has usually happened whenever a large proportion of Americans have been upset with the distribution of their country’s wealth.
Steven Levitt, an economist and the co-author of Freakonomics, studied what happened when people made major life decisions based on random chance.
Following the country’s 2011 revolution, Ikram Ben Said decided to figure out how to get more equal representation in the new government.
The world’s largest retailer has acquired a new customer base, proprietary pricing software, and the faculties of a CEO who’s taken aim at Amazon.
With gas prices having plummeted, the residents and leaders of Williston are left wondering if their city can turn short-term gains into long-term growth.
In his 19 years of owning a gas station, Kent Couch has rolled out a beer cave, kombucha on tap, and uniformed attendants who greet customers by name.
The child born to a mother infected with the virus died in Harris County, Texas.
A case for investing in human health rather than paying for the consequences of inaction.
The fizzy, fermented tea is not the cure-all that its devotees want it to be, but it still might have health benefits.
If your heart stops beating, you’re more likely to survive in a casino or on an airplane than in a hospital.
An element of his success is voters’ equating aggression with competence.
Psychologists suggest there’s a sweet spot between accepting who you are and striving for who you want to be.
Life is stressful enough when you’re expecting a baby.
Photos from the front line fighting in Libya from Reuters photographer Goran Tomasevic.
It’s not a “female version” of baseball, but the sport’s inclusion in the 2020 Tokyo Games is a victory for gender equality in athletics.
The finale of the Bachelor satire cut away some of the distracting villains of the show, demonstrating that its core appeal remains intact.
Taran Killam, Jay Pharoah, and Jon Rudnitsky have been fired from the venerable sketch show, which has failed to find its feet with a new cast.
In women's gymnastics, competing ideals—femininity and ferocious athleticism—reflect a larger balancing act.
Kent Jones’s documentary, airing on HBO Monday, delves into a famous dialogue between two of the most storied directors in film.
The mononymous Miami Marlins player, who just reached 3,000 career MLB hits, stands out for his simple, elegant approach to the game.
His hugely hyped new album had another false release date, but his week of construction left a lot to puzzle over.
Students in Denmark—where happiness levels are the highest on Earth—are taught to care for one another from a young age.
No one remembers what you wore on the first day of school, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t advantages to looking “cool.”
Elite universities with endowments of more than $500 million tend to be frugal with aid for low-income students.
Students in the U.S. are being taught to focus only on becoming educated.
Activists are calling for an end to charter schools and juvenile detention centers.
Students in the U.S. are being taught to focus only on becoming educated.
The number of dual-language programs in American high schools is on the rise.
The former Illinois governor will remain in prison for his 14-year sentence.
Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Texas boy, was arrested last September for taking a homemade clock to school that some teachers thought looked like a bomb.
Two LAPD officers—one white and the other Hispanic—who fatally shot the unarmed black man in 2014 filed a racial-discrimination lawsuit against the police department.
More than 40 service members, including one pregnant woman, have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus since January.
The U.S. Supreme Court temporarily stayed a Fourth Circuit ruling on gender identity and Title IX Wednesday.
The Atlantic City casino is expected to close in September following a month of union strikes.
“Trump is both a product of a masculine culture and a beneficiary of its musky tenets.”
Kenyan runners are among some of the best in the world. This short film explores their culture and dedication.
The Atlantic will explore the nation’s homeland security to examine the strengths and remaining vulnerabilities of our security apparatus and our preparedness to prevent the next terrorist attack.
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