The Zika Olympics
The upcoming 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro have sparked a debate about how much risk is too much.
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Katie Salvi More Top StoriesA New Origin Story for Dogs
The first domesticated animals may have been tamed twice.
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Alana Semuels / The Atlantic More Top StoriesThe Graying of Rural America
As young people increasingly move to cities, what happens to the people and places they leave behind?
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Adrees Latif / Reuters More Top StoriesA Sanders Supporter Leans Toward Supporting Trump
Some Democratic primary voters are indulging in the dangerous fantasy that burning down the system is best.
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic More Top StoriesWhere Republicans Stand on Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet
Who has jumped on the bandwagon? Who’s sticking with #NeverTrump? And who hasn’t made up their mind yet? A continually updated inventory
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters More Top StoriesMobile Is Eating Media, and Facebook Is Eating Mobile
The next few years will see a massive shift of ads and attention from TV to mobile. A handful of companies, led by Facebook, are poised to make a killing.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters More Top StoriesPaul Ryan Finally Falls in Line
After weeks of agonizing, the House speaker lets the world know as quietly as he can that, yes, he’ll be voting for Donald Trump in November.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters More Top StoriesTegan and Sara, Scientists of the Love Song
Love You to Death sees the duo tinkering with synth-pop to communicate precise, and often bittersweet, emotions.
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Erik S. Lesser / AP More Top StoriesThe Missing Piece in the Debate Over College Costs
It doesn’t matter what the price tag is when the value is good.
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Global
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Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters GlobalThe Rise of ISIS Makes More Sense in Reverse
Kurt Vonnegut once imagined World War II backwards and found peace at the end. What happens if you do the same for recent conflicts in the Middle East?
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Ajit Solanki / AP GlobalConvictions in 2002 Gujarat Riots Case
An Indian court convicted 24 people—but acquitted 36—for the Gulbarg Society killings in which 69 Muslims were killed.
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Egyptian Defense Ministry / AP GlobalThe Search for EgyptAir Flight 804
Investigators say a French vessel looking for the aircraft has detected a signal from one of the data recorders.
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Scott Heppell / AP GlobalTrump’s U.K. Visit
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee will visit Britain on June 24—the day after the “Brexit” vote—for the opening of his golf resort.
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AP GlobalThe Investigation of Thailand’s Tiger Temple
Officials are looking into whether the popular tourist attraction was involved in the wildlife trafficking after the discovery of 40 dead cubs.
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Philippe Wojazer / Reuters GlobalThe European Travel Risk
The U.S. State Department warned American travelers of terrorism in Europe this summer.
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Russell Lee / Library of Congress The Black Journalist and the Racial Mountain
It’s not what the wider world says about black writers that should concern them, so much as what they say about themselves.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Trump: Mexican American Judge Has an 'Absolute Conflict'
The Republican candidate’s insistence that Gonzalo Curiel cannot preside impartially simply because of his ethnic heritage flies in the face of established precedent and judicial principle.
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters The Zika Olympics
The upcoming 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro have sparked a debate about how much risk is too much.
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Dylan Martinez / Reuters Prince and Painkillers
News reports, citing an anonymous source close to the investigation, say the singer died of an overdose, most likely from painkillers.
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Meng Viren / Getty When Newsweek ‘Struck Terror in the Hearts of Single Women’
Thirty years ago, the magazine declared that single women over 40 are more likely to be killed by terrorism than to get married—prompting a nationwide crisis whose anxiety still lingers.
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David McNew / Reuters The Surging Cost of Basic Needs
Low-income families spend more than 80 percent of their budget on things like housing, food, and health care—that’s a lot more than 30 years ago.
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Video: How the Wealthy Control the Art Market
Rich patrons often choose to fund artists’ most wild and outlandish dreams. Why?
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Video
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VideoInside the Company That Wants to Be the Netflix of Lucid Dreaming
The Kiev-based startup Luciding is trying to put people in control of the images they encounter in their sleep.
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VideoMarching Band and the Tenacity of Youth
The short film Concrete Royalty tells the story of a determined 16-year-old snare drummer.
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VideoInside the Thorny Art Gallery Ecosystem
A short film on how the tricky business of buying and dealing artwork has evolved
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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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VideoA Delicious Recipe for Plum-Filled Dumplings
The short film Knedle pairs the instructions for a Croatian dessert with a grandmother's recollections.
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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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Politics & Policy
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Julie Jacobson / AP Politics & PolicyTrump’s Rhetoric of White Nostalgia
Trump’s core promise is to return to white, working-class Americans what they feel they’ve lost.
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Max Temescu Politics & PolicyOn the Defensive
The right to legal counsel has long been the gold standard of American justice under the Constitution. But what happens when a state refuses to budget for public defenders? Louisiana is finding out.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Politics & PolicyAre Members of Congress Overpaid?
Lawmakers’ pay has been frozen for years. Whether that should change—and how much they deserve—is up for debate.
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Dana Verkouteren / AP Politics & PolicyThe Solicitor General Rests
Donald Verrilli, who as the Obama administration’s top litigator won landmark cases on the Affordable Care Act, same-sex marriage, and immigration, will step down this month.
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Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters Politics & PolicyHave Twitter Bots Infiltrated the 2016 Election?
Some say Donald Trump has boosted his massive online following with automated accounts. But there’s more to it than that.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Politics & PolicyKristol Is Clear
Republicans are lining up behind Donald Trump, but Bill Kristol is still trying to stop him. Too bad pundits are conflating his chances of success with its virtue.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Politics & PolicyThe Lament of the Anti-Trump Republican Women
Powerful female members of the GOP are caught between party loyalty and the front-runner’s misogyny.
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Science
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Toby Melville / Reuters ScienceCan You Cure Chronic Lateness?
The thorny habit is a tough one to break—but scientists say that managing it is possible.
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Microslervos / Flickr ScienceCan Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?
Two researchers applied common neuroscience techniques to a classic computer chip. Their results are a wake-up call for the whole field.
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NASA ScienceSolving the Mystery of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
When NASA’s Juno probe reaches the planet in July, scientists may finally find out what drives the strange phenomenon.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech ScienceThe Women Behind the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Among the institution’s early employees were female “computers” who made rocket launches possible.
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Sara Hylton / Reuters ScienceIs Beer Made With Roast Chicken Tasty?
Independent brewers are playing with ancient ingredients to invent new flavors.
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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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Today's Newsletter
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Mike Blake / Reuters Today's NewsletterThe Atlantic Daily: Clinton's Trump Warning, Germany Angers Turkey, France's Floods
The Democratic frontrunner harshly criticizes her Republican rival, the Bundestag recognizes the Armenian genocide, rising floodwaters threaten the Louvre, and more.
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Why Virginia’s Restoration of Voting Rights Matters
By re-enfranchising people with felony convictions, the state confronts its Jim Crow legacy.
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Culture
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Mark Basedow CultureThe Difficult History of Indigenous People in Video Games
2015’s The Raven and the Light illuminates one of the darkest stories of Canada’s native population.
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Universal CulturePopstar: Celebrity Satire Done Right
The first film from Saturday Night Live’s Lonely Island trio gently mocks the fame of popstars like Justin Bieber.
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Ken Blaze / USA Today Sports CultureThe NBA Finals Rematch
The Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers face off for the second straight year.
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AP CultureThe Year American Speech Became Art
During a whirlwind 15-month period in the late 1920s, technology and cultural trends intersected in turning Yankee diction into a global force.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP CultureMaking Art in the Age of Trump
The artist and musician Laurie Anderson reflects on the power of political rhetoric, why she voted for Hillary Clinton, and why she hated Hamilton.
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Jeff Christensen / Reuters CultureThe Radical Power of ‘Killing Me Softly’
As sung by the Fugees’ Lauryn Hill, the 20-year-old cover was a pivotal musical moment for many young black women in 1996.
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NBC CultureMaya & Marty Shovels Dirt Onto the TV Variety Show
NBC’s latest effort to resurrect a classic TV format feels, at best, like reheated Saturday Night Live leftovers.
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Romeo Ranoco / Reuters U.S.How Prison Debt Ensnares Offenders
A new book chronicles how scores of former inmates and the people they harmed are jointly cheated by a cyclical and cynical state-sponsored debt spiral.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters U.S.UCLA Shooting: The Suspect in the Murder-Suicide
The LAPD has identified the shooter in Wednesday’s killing of an engineering professor.
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AP U.S.No Civil-Rights Charges in Minnesota Police Shooting
Federal prosecutors ended their investigation into the November 2016 shooting death of Jamar Clark.
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Joe Skipper / Reuters U.S.The Death of Corey Jones: Six Shots, Two Charges, Few Answers
A grand jury on Wednesday indicted a police officer for attempted murder and negligent manslaughter in the 2015 killing of the 31-year-old black man.
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John Minchillo / AP U.S.Judging the Mom Who Let Her Boy Run Away at the Zoo
After a 4-year-old climbed into a gorilla’s pen, the internet unleashed its fury, showing a profound lack of empathy.
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Brandon Wade / AP U.S.The Rising Floods in Texas
Torrential rain in Texas, and overflowing rivers and reservoirs have caused thousands to evacuate their homes, and killed at least six people.
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Sebastian Widmann / Getty Deadly Floods Sweep Through Bavarian Towns
Heavy rains across parts of Europe this week have caused rivers to overflow and flash floods to inundate small towns in Germany.
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Business
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Max Rossi / Reuters BusinessThe Lives of Wishing Coins
What happens to the small bits of currency that people toss into city fountains?
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Ross D. Franklin / AP BusinessPayday Loan Rule: Progress, but Still a Long Way to Go
What else must be done to protect consumers from predatory lending?
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Richard Vogel / AP BusinessFor-Profit Students Are Worse Off Than If They Had Never Enrolled in the First Place
A new analysis of attendees’ earnings is in, and it doesn’t look good.
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Flickr BusinessBecoming Europe
If American liberals want the continent’s solutions, they ought to also recognize its problems.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters BusinessMay’s Best Reads: Media Moguls, Climbing Rents, and Turf Wars
The month’s most interesting stories about money and business from around the web.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters BusinessPaying (and Paying and Paying) a Debt to Society
Convicted felons who get jobs are much less likely to go on to commit another crime. Why are there so many barriers for them to join the workforce?
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic BusinessWelfare Utopia
Oregon, one of the whitest states in the union, also has one of the most generous safety nets. Is that a coincidence or something more troubling?
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Health
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Romeo Ranoco / Reuters HealthUnderstanding Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Figuring out how many SIDS cases are misclassified may be key to prevention.
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tarapong srichaiyos / Shutterstock HealthThe Future of Food Is Cheese Curds and Turmeric
The strange new food preferences of Americans, according to Google
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Thinkstock / Getty HealthNot White, Not Rich, and Seeking Therapy
Even for those with insurance, getting mental healthcare means fighting through phone tag, payment confusion, and even outright discrimination.
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drpnncpptak / Shutterstock HealthA Good Night’s Sleep May Shorten Kids’ Hospital Stays
Doctors are trying out new ways to give sick children better shut-eye.
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Alvin Baez / Reuters HealthAnother American Zika Birth
A woman in New Jersey gave birth to a baby girl this week after being infected with the virus.
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Nicolás Marino / Quanta HealthHow Neanderthals Gave Us Secret Powers
Interbreeding with our fellow hominins appears to have helped humans survive harsh climates.
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Allison Joyce / AP HealthThe Dwindling Options for Surrogacy Abroad
As developing nations clamp down on the practice, hopeful parents are struggling to find women to carry their children.
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Education
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Kerri Cottle EducationA More Perfect Graduation
What Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at the Santa Fe Indian School says about the importance of self-determination in education
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John Javellana / Reuters EducationBoosting Social Skills in Autistic Kids With Drama
Schools are exploring new ways to teach children the rules of informal interactions.
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Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters EducationWhy the Education Department’s Equity Rule Might Not Be So Equal
Teachers and the Obama administration are divided over what the federal government’s role should be in telling districts how to fund their schools.
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Wikimedia EducationWhy Is a High School in One of America’s Richest Counties Still Failing?
For 50 years, Bassick High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut has been neglected and underfunded.
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Alex Brandon / AP EducationUndocumented and Black
A recent college graduate shatters the perception that immigration reform is only a Latino issue.
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Lynne Sladky / AP EducationThe Benefits of Teaching in Two Languages
Bilingual education facilitates connections beyond the confines of a classroom.
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Fiona Hanson / AP EducationColleges 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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Technology
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Jack Dempsey / AP TechnologyYour Data Is Forever
The best parts of the internet are in danger of disappearing over time—but personal information has an exceptionally long half-life.
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Andrea Comas / Reuters TechnologyWhy Won’t Americans Let Bygones Be Bygones Online?
The country has long prided itself as a land of reinvention, but not if it means abandoning the right to know what the neighbors are up to.
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Flickr/angela n. TechnologyElegy for the Capital-I Internet
It’s silly to capitalize it, but doing so gave the global network a needed sense of awe and terror.
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Ivan Sekretarev / AP TechnologyTwitter’s Suspension of (and About-Face on) a Parody Account
The social-media platform suspended the popular @DarthPutinKGB account on Tuesday. A day later, the account appeared to be back online.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters TechnologyInternet Reading Club: May 2016
Must-reads about science, technology, and health from around the web
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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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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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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters Does It Really Matter What People Call the So-Called Islamic State?
“Language is hardly ever neutral. … [Journalists] have no choice but to make a choice.”
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Events
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The Atlantic at the 2016 Presidential Conventions
The Atlantic will be at the national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia for a series of policy briefings, forums, interviews and more exploring how the candidates will shape policy and craft their plan for America’s future.
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