Trump Moves Closer to Announcing a Supreme Court Nominee
The president says he’ll reveal his choice to fill the vacant high-court seat next week.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Professionalism, Propaganda, and the Press
The Trump administration seems wedded to a political strategy of lying to the public, challenging the media to adjust.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The White House Clings to False Claims of Massive Voter Fraud
Trump’s press secretary cited “studies” suggesting millions of non-citizens cast ballots in November. Little evidence supports this claim.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Will Trump Cut Medicare and Social Security?
Mick Mulvaney, the nominee for budget director, told senators Tuesday that he’d recommend significant changes to entitlement programs—even if they contradict the president’s campaign pledges.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Is Trump’s Presidency Off to a Successful Start?
Overshadowed by headlines about chaos and infighting, the new administration is notching a string of early victories.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump’s Dakota Access Pipeline Memo: What We Know Right Now
The White House hasn’t released the executive order yet. Here’s some of the text that the president signed.
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Video: Meeting the Son of Your Sister’s Killer
In an exclusive excerpt from The Witness, Kitty Genovese's brother gets close to confronting her murderer.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters More Top StoriesA Photographic Fact-Check of Inauguration Attendance
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s assertion that the National Mall was "full when the president took the Oath of Office" is demonstrably false.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters More Top StoriesThe Meaning of 'Access' to Health Care
Why Republicans like HHS nominee Tom Price are emphasizing “universal access” over “universal coverage”
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Murad Sezer / Reuters More Top StoriesThe Most Predictive Factors of Post-Graduation Wages
How much do internships, majors, and institutions really matter for lifetime earnings?
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A24 More Top StoriesThe 2017 Oscar Nominations Are Here
The Hollywood-set musical took a record 14 nods in a list otherwise dominated by smaller, more intimate dramas.
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ABC More Top StoriesIn Praise of Corinne, The Bachelor's Human Conspiracy Theory
Is she for real? Is she an actor? Is she really a 24-year-old with a nanny?
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Evan Vucci / AP More Top StoriesThe Trump Administration's First Blow to Obamacare
An executive order signed by the president on his first day in office could weaken the health law.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters More Top StoriesHow Ultrasound Became Political
The technology has been used to create an imaginary “heartbeat” and sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.
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Gianni Fiorito/HBO More Top StoriesThe Divine Comedy Within The Young Pope
The show is funny because it's about the power of humor—and the absurdities of faith.
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Features
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Eric Risberg / AP FeaturesThe Demon Voice That Can Control Your Smartphone
Researchers have created creepy sounds that are unintelligible to humans but still capable of controlling phones’ digital assistants.
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Reuters FeaturesChina’s Growing Ambitions in Space
While Trump works to set out a new policy for NASA, China is set to conduct a record number of launches this year.
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VideoOne Man's Search for Meaning in the Rhythm of Tap
The short film He Who Dances On Wood is a soliloquy on the joy of dance.
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VideoAre Trump’s Tweets Presidential?
How his social media feed compares to political communication in past administrations
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VideoA Reflection on Trump’s Uncharted Presidency
In a short animation, James Fallows considers what’s in store for this new era of American politics.
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VideoThe Story of an Iconic Obama Campaign Chant, Animated
Twelve artists collaborate to create a short animation on the origins of the popular cheer.
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VideoWhat It Was Like to Watch the U.S. Presidential Election in a London Bar
“I can’t believe that the greatest country on earth, the best two people they can muster are these two individuals.”
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Politics & Policy
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Politics & PolicyHow Trump's Speech to the CIA Endangered America
The president repeated his belief that the U.S. should have taken Iraq’s oil, ominously adding that the CIA may “have another chance.”
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Politics & PolicyHow Many of His ‘Day One’ Promises Did Trump Fulfill?
The president laid out 18 promises in a “Contract With the American Voter,” but he only managed to check off a handful by Monday.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP Politics & PolicyThe Republican Health Plan That Doesn’t Repeal Obamacare
As the party struggles to agree on a replacement, a group of GOP senators unveil a bill that would give states the option to keep it.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Politics & PolicyThe White House Can't Easily Repair Its Relationship With the Media
Press Secretary Sean Spicer continued to suggest on Monday that the media is attempting to undercut the president.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Politics & PolicyWhat Does Trump’s ‘Day of Patriotic Devotion’ Really Mean?
The president declared his own inauguration a national holiday. But the language he used says something more.
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The Atlantic Politics & PolicySenate Confirms Mike Pompeo for CIA Director
The Senate confirmed Representative Mike Pompeo to be CIA director in a bipartisan vote on Monday evening.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Politics & PolicyCheapening a Sacred Space
On Saturday, President Trump stood in front of the CIA’s Memorial Wall and gave a speech that said more about himself than those the wall commemorated, or the agency they served.
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Business
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters BusinessWhat’s Next for the U.S.’s Trade Deals?
And other big questions, now that President Trump has gutted the TPP and is planning to renegotiate NAFTA
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Peter Ryan BusinessTrump’s Interests vs. America’s, Pipeline Edition
The president is moving forward with the Dakota Access Pipeline, but has offered no proof that he’s sold his stock in the company building it.
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Evan Vucci BusinessTrump Takes Office, Kills TPP
The controversial trade deal put together by President Obama and supported by many Republicans falls under the weight of the new president’s populism.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters BusinessTrump's Promises to Corporate Leaders: Lower Taxes and Fewer Regulations
In a meeting with 12 executives the president committed to making good on his campaign pledges—and asked the heads of American business for their help.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters BusinessWhy Would Trump Want a Weaker Dollar?
Surprise remarks by the president-elect, which depart from decades of U.S. policy, sent American currency into a tumble.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters BusinessWomen's March Protesters Fear Trump Will Worsen Economic Inequality
“I think all indications are that people are going to get poorer under the Trump administration.”
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters BusinessTrump’s Populism Is a Fiction
Don’t be fooled by inaugural pomp: The Trump administration is plotting a return to plutocracy.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters TechnologyThe Exhausting Work of Tallying America's Largest Protest
A pair of political-science professors are combing through news stories and individual reports to estimate the number of people who demonstrated on Saturday.
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The Atlantic TechnologyWe Want to Hear From You!
Help shape our future by taking the 2017 Atlantic Audience Survey.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters TechnologyThe Man Who Predicted Trump's Inauguration a Year and a Half Ago
A conversation with Matt Novak, who’s been counting down to the inauguration on Twitter for a year and a half.
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Library of Congress TechnologyHow the Fake News Crisis of 1896 Explains Trump
William Jennings Bryan, the populist presidential hopeful, warned of an “epidemic of fake news” in his day.
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Global
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters GlobalWhat Trump Could Mean for Journalism
How reporters around the world cover leaders hostile to them
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Pete Marovich / Getty GlobalTrump Strikes at Abortion With a Revived Foreign-Aid Rule
The president has reinstated a contentious policy that blocks funding to international family-planning organizations unless they agree not to promote abortion.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters GlobalPivotal Elections Loom Over Europe
Voters in France, Germany, and the Netherlands will vote this year in what is expected to be a critical test for establishment candidates and parties.
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Guardia Di Finanza / Reuters GlobalThe Deadly Avalanche in Italy
Many people are feared dead after an avalanche, triggered by several earthquakes, “swept away” a hotel in central Italy.
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Ronen Zvulun / Reuters GlobalThe Netanyahu Investigations
How the Israeli prime minister's scandal could spoil what should be his perfect political moment
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Branden Camp / AP Today's NewsletterSubscribe to Our Evening Newsletter
The Atlantic Daily: our wrap-up of notable news, ideas, and images—by email each weekday
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Projects
The trump administration: the first 100 days
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Sean Rayford / Brooks Kraft / Chip Somodevilla / Getty / Zak Bickel / The Atlantic The Trump Promise Tracker
Following the 45th president’s progress toward the policies he laid out on the campaign trail
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Health
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters HealthWhy the GOP’s Health-Care Plans Aren’t Any Cheaper Than Obamacare
For people sick of high deductibles, Republicans offer high-deductible plans as replacements for Obamacare
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters HealthWhat Is the Right Way to Wash Your Hands?
Redefining “clean” in an era of the skin microbiome
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Raphael Schneider / Getty HealthThe Folly of ‘Purity Politics’
A new book argues for the value of owning up to your imperfections.
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Dave Imms / Mosaic HealthHow Iceland Got Teens to Say No to Drugs
Curfews, sports, and understanding kids’ brain chemistry have all helped dramatically curb substance abuse in the country.
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Michael Duff / AP HealthA Global Plan to Defend Against the Future's Deadliest Diseases
$460 million will go toward developing vaccines that prevent outbreaks like Ebola from taking the world by surprise.
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Daniel Gasienica / Getty HealthThe Shadow Network of Anti-Vax Doctors
Many both mainstream and alternative doctors help patients avoid or delay vaccines. Trump’s rhetoric might empower them further.
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Abhishek Chinnappa / Reuters HealthInstead of Overweight, Overfat
A proposed linguistic change could temper a cultural obsession with body weight.
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Science
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Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic ScienceThe Women Scientists Standing Up to Trump
“What do want? Data! When do we want it? Forever!”
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Courtesy of Jim Van Belzen ScienceUnder the Sea in a Ragworm's Garden
A leggy marine creature may be a one-of-a-kind underwater planter.
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NASA ScienceWould You Give Up Perfect Vision for a Trip to Space?
A new study put cancer patients on parabolic flight to see how microgravity worsens astronauts’ eyesight.
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters ScienceThe FDA Wants to Regulate Gene-Editing That Makes Cows Less Horny
What happens when new technology meets old laws
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters ScienceAs the Planet Warms, Trump’s EPA Pick Hedges
Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing to lead the EPA was dissonant with the week’s biggest scientific news.
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Yuriko Nakao / Reuters ScienceDecoding the Origami That Drives All Life
“Proteins are built to a precision that would make human engineers blush—every atom is always in exactly the right position.”
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Branden Camp / AP Deadly Storms and Tornadoes Hit the American South
Over the weekend, a massive storm system spawned dozens of tornadoes and caused extensive damage across a swath of the southern United States, from Texas to Florida.
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Culture
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HBO CultureBeware the Slenderman Is a True-Life Horror Story for Parents
The HBO documentary delves into the disturbing 2014 case of two Wisconsin girls who say they stabbed their friend to appease a bogeyman-like figure.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters CultureHow Madonna Gave Trump Ammo With a Cry for Peace
Her mention of “blowing up the White House” at the Women’s March was a classic moment for her—and for the new president’s team.
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Universal CultureDeciphering the Bizarre Twist Ending of Split
M. Night Shyamalan’s new film ends on a typically surprising note—and there’s a lot to unpack about its wider implications.
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C. Stanley Photography / Arena Stage CultureRoe: Can a Play Influence the Abortion Debate?
Lisa Loomer's production about the legendary Supreme Court case opens during a time of renewed uncertainty over a woman’s right to choose.
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Sundance Selects CultureI, Daniel Blake Satirizes a Brutal Bureaucracy
Ken Loach’s new movie, which triumphed at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a Kafkaesque tale of one man navigating Britain’s welfare system.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters CultureThe Inauguration, and the Counter-Inauguration
The Women’s March on Washington was a protest that also, in its own way, marked a peaceful transition of power.
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Education
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Lynne Sladky / AP EducationIs the Bar Too Low for Special Education?
The Supreme Court is poised to decide the quality of instruction public schools must provide students with disabilities—a question that could get even thornier under the Trump administration.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic EducationWill These Education Buzzwords Persevere Under Trump?
Ten concepts that gained lots of traction under the Obama administration
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Carolyn Kaster / AP EducationFrom DeVos to Debt: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
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Gary Cameron / Reuters EducationDelving Into One of the Questions Betsy DeVos Couldn't Answer
Trump’s pick for education secretary was slammed for her failure to differentiate between growth and proficiency in response to a question from Senator Al Franken.
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U.S. Department of Education / Flickr Education9 Questions With the Man Who Oversaw Higher Education Under Obama
Ted Mitchell has some advice for Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. Education Department.
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Library of Congress / Reuters EducationCharter Schools Have Fueled Resegregation in Urban America
Charter schools have fueled school resegregation in urban America.
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Laura Rauch / AP EducationCan School Choice Work in Rural Areas?
Two Republican senators brought up the unique challenges students in sparsely populated areas face during Education Secretary-nominee Betsy DeVos’s hearing.
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DenisNata / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic Presidents Aren't CEOs
“No president, however, has ever spent his entire adult life immersed in the hustle and bustle of business or, to use Trump’s preferred nomenclature, deal-making.”
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters U.S.Trump Moves to Advance Construction of Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines
The projects were blocked under the Obama administration.
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Elizabeth Conley U.S.Americans at Work: A Church for the Unemployed
Part of our ongoing series of photo essays at The Atlantic titled “Americans at Work.” This week, photographs of the NorthWest Bible Church’s Between Jobs Ministry in Spring, Texas, made by photographer Elizabeth Conley.
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Reuters U.S.Mexican Drug Lord El Chapo Extradited to the U.S.
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is facing federal indictments in seven courts across the U.S. for distributing narcotics, murder, and organized crime.
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USA Today Sports / Reuters U.S.Former President George H.W. Bush Hospitalized in Houston
The 92-year-old former president had complained of shortness of breath, but “has responded very well to treatment.”
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Deborah Fallows U.S.Flying Into the Deep South
In their final American Futures journey, Deborah and James Fallows stop in Demopolis, Alabama, on their way to Southern California.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters U.S.Orlando Gunman's Wife Arrested
Noor Salman was arrested at her home outside San Francisco, charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the Pulse nightclub shooting case.
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Patrick Semansky / AP U.S.How Cash Bail Keeps the Poor in Jail
Inability to pay bail is often the only reason a pretrial defendant stays behind bars.
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VideoThe Resilience of Growing Up Native American
A Shoshone elder's recollections from a long life
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Win McNamee / Reuters What Does It Mean That Trump Is ‘Leader of the Free World’?
The puzzling resilience of a Cold War concept
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