The Patriots Win the Super Bowl in an Unprecedented Comeback
Even by the third quarter, no one saw it coming.
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Matthew Emmons / USA TODAY Sports Playing the Super Bowl Halftime Show: An Unpaid Internship?
Performers do it for the exposure, and, like the NFL, have an interest in keeping the attention away from money.
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Michael Marsicano Can Megyn Kelly Escape Her Past?
Fox News’s former star has downplayed her full role in an ugly election.
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EyesWideOpen / Getty Superb Owl Sunday
A special Sunday event, a photographic essay celebrating a few of these magnificent raptors. Not Falcons (nor Patriots), these superb owls hail from all over the world.
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Yuri Grigas / Reuters When Your Judge Isn't A Lawyer
In some states, justices of the peace don’t need a law degree to sentence defendants to prison.
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Reuters The Political Saga of Avocados
How does such a nutritious fruit have such a contentious record?
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Video: Is Trump a Populist Authoritarian?
What he does and does not have in common with the likes of Hitler, Chavez, Berlusconi, and Erdoğan
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Mark Makela / Reuters More Top StoriesTrump Is Attacking Any Institution That Challenges Him
The president has displayed a willingness to go after the press, the intelligence community, and now even the judiciary.
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NBC More Top StoriesThe Genius of Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live
The actress made a surprise appearance as the White House press secretary.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters More Top StoriesWhy a Super Bowl Ad Is the Smartest Way to Waste $5 Million
The biggest blockbuster in pop culture doesn’t benefit most of its advertisers. So, what are they thinking?
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David W Cerny / Reuters More Top StoriesBudweiser's Super Bowl Ad Taps America’s Contentious Immigration Past
American beer as we know it today was the gift of a once-despised immigrant group: German Americans.
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Bettmann / Getty More Top StoriesThe Mary Tyler Moore Show and How Sitcoms Moved to the City
The 1970s comedy series was one of the first to recognize a new economic and social reality, in which white-collar residents increasingly supplanted the urban working class.
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Wong Maye-E / AP More Top StoriesThe Healthy-Lifestyle Curriculum
At Perea Preschool in Memphis, Tennessee, lesson plans come with a heaping portion of nutrition.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters More Top StoriesThe Rise of Progressive 'Fake News'
The disempowered left now faces its own kinds of hoaxes and fables.
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John Cuneo In This IssueInstamom
The enviable, highly profitable life of Amber Fillerup Clark, perfect mother and social-media influencer
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Bettmann / Getty In This IssueA Saint for Difficult People
From bohemian to radical to Catholic activist, Dorothy Day devoted her life to the poor, however unlovable.
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VideoWhat Will Happen to Undocumented Doctors?
Meet the Dreamers who are one executive action away from losing everything.
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VideoInside the 1915 Protest to Ban The Birth of a Nation
How an African American newspaper editor led a movement to ban the racist film
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VideoOn the Eighth Day, There Were Airport Protests
A visual portrait of JFK after the announcement of the travel ban
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VideoPublic Indifference Is Trump’s Greatest Asset on the Path to Autocracy
David Frum on Donald Trump's authoritarian tendencies
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VideoCaitlyn Jenner on Looking in the Mirror and Not Recognizing Yourself
“When you are burdened with something constantly—every day—you can't thrive as a human being.”
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Politics & Policy
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Politics & PolicyHow Stephen Miller's Rise Explains the Trump White House
The young policy adviser became the public face of Trump’s controversial travel ban—and is paying the price for it.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Politics & PolicyHow Trump Is Changing Immigration Enforcement
The president’s directive on immigration might resemble the record deportations of Obama’s first term—but without the corresponding push for legalization.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Politics & PolicyObamacare’s Unlikely Defenders
The prospect of losing coverage and jobs has jolted a marginalized workforce into political organizing.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters Politics & PolicyTrump's Attack on a Judge For Staying His Travel Ban
After his travel ban is rebuked by the courts, the president attacks the legitimacy of a “so-called judge” who issued a ruling blocking the order.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Politics & PolicyHow Trump Is Changing Immigration Enforcement
The president’s directive on immigration might resemble the record deportations of Obama’s first term—but without the corresponding push for legalization.
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Brian Synder / Reuters Politics & PolicyTrump's Travel Ban Revoked 60,000 Visas (Not 100,000)
The DOJ attorney appears to have erroneously included visa categories—such as diplomatic—that the executive order exempts.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters BusinessThe Yemeni Bodega Strike
As many as 5,000 business owners and their supporters gathered in Brooklyn for a protest against President Trump’s immigration ban.
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Peter Ryan BusinessTrump's Interests vs. America's, Red Cross Edition
The federally-chartered organization will be holding its annual ball this Saturday at the president's golf club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.
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Mike Blake / Reuters BusinessA Great January Jobs Report
The U.S. economy added 277,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.8 percent.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters BusinessGovernment Economists Are Going to Produce Statistics Trump Doesn't Like
The past seven presidents haven't dared to interfere with federal economic data. But Nixon had other ideas—and the current chief executive may as well.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters BusinessA Publicity Stunt at the National Prayer Breakfast?
In his speech at the annual event, the president went on a digression promoting The Apprentice, a show he co-produces.
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YouTube BusinessBudweiser’s Totally-Not-Political Super Bowl Ad
The high-profile spot is already being interpreted along partisan lines, whether the company likes it or not.
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Monica Almeida / Reuters BusinessTrump Has a Message for Poor Immigrants: Get Out
The ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries was just the beginning.
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Reuters TechnologyIt’s Ridiculous to Use Virtual Reality to Empathize With Refugees
The technology isn’t the moral game-changer that some make it out to be.
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John D McHugh / AFP / Getty TechnologyHow Trump’s Immigration Rules Will Hurt the U.S. Tech Sector
Instead of beelining for Silicon Valley, the top minds from countries like Iran may start heading to Canada, Europe, or Asia instead.
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Bernadette Szabo / Reuters TechnologyThe Threats to the World’s Chocolate Forests
A taste for chocolate has spread around the globe, but its supply is in jeopardy.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters TechnologyIs #DeleteUber Good for Workers' Rights?
The social-media campaign highlights labor issues, but only through the lens of identity.
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Mandel Ngan / AFP / Getty Images GlobalA ‘City on a Hill’ as a Fortress in a Moat
The notion that one form of prejudice can defeat another is an illusion.
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Nacho Doce / Reuters GlobalRanked: World Leaders Who Are Out of Office, but Not Out of Power
Some terms are more limited than others.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters GlobalTrump's Non-Policy on Israeli Settlements
In declining to take an “official position” on the issue, the president departs from a decades-old American posture.
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Reuters GlobalU.S. Imposes Sanctions on Companies, Individuals in Response to Iranian Missile Test
This week the Trump administration said it was putting Iran "on notice."
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Rick Wilking / Reuters GlobalThe Meaning of Cyberwar and Deporting FBI Informants: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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How the Russian president became the ideological hero of nationalists everywhere
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The Atlantic Daily: our wrap-up of notable news, ideas, and images—by email each weekday
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Evan Vucci / Reuters ‘American Carnage’: The Trump Era Begins
Most presidents view inaugural addresses as a rare opportunity to appeal beyond “the base.” This was base-only.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP HealthWhy Fake News Targeted Trump Supporters
Multiple studies suggest social conservatives are more attuned to threats—even when they are not real.
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KC McGinnis / Spectrum HealthThe Challenges of Autism in Small-Town America
Lacking easy access to specialized care, some families are turning to video-conferencing for treatment.
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Carolyn Kaster / Evan Vucci / AP HealthIt May Be Unwise to Drink Tears
The resurgent ritual of mocking people for crying is a suboptimal source of social validation.
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Chester Holme / Mosaic HealthVirtual Reality Can Make the Pain of Surgery Easier to Bear
By distracting patients, VR could minimize the cost and risk of operations—and allow doctors to operate on patients outside the hospital.
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Carlos Giusti / AP HealthTrump's Immigration Order Might Cost Thousands of Americans Access to a Doctor
Medical students from the seven banned nations may never get to practice in the U.S., where many would have worked in underserved areas.
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David Williams / Sapiens ScienceThe Curious Case of the Neanderthal Campfire
New evidence from two caves in Western France deepens an old mystery about our fellow hominins.
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Andrew Weaver ScienceThe Climate Scientist Who Became a Politician
Andrew Weaver abandoned a 26-year career in climatology to make a successful run for office in Canada.
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic ScienceThe Simple Psychological Trick to Political Persuasion
Conservatives are more likely to support issues like immigration and Obamacare if the message is “morally reframed” to suit their values.
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Rafael Marchante / Reuters ScienceThe Brain’s Connections Shrink During Sleep
This mass downscaling stops neurons from becoming saturated—which may be one of the reasons why sleep exists at all.
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Dru Bloomfield / Flickr ScienceScientists Open Their Labs to Colleagues Stranded by Trump’s Immigration Ban
More than 380 people have signed a list volunteering their facilities to American-based researchers who are stuck outside the U.S.
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Michael Owen Baker / AP ScienceWho Abused Their Executive Power at Standing Rock?
Under the Obama administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the project needed an environmental-impact review. Now, the Corps has reversed course.
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Alexis Noel ScienceWhy Frog Tongues Are So Sticky
They’re among the softest biological substances ever measured.
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© Emilie Richardson Americans at Work: Returning Veterans
Part of our ongoing series of photo essays at The Atlantic titled “Americans at Work.” This week, photographs of military veterans returning to civilian life in New York City, made by photographer Emilie Richardson
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Paramount Pictures CultureRings Would Be Better Off at the Bottom of a Well
This strange sequel comes 15 years after the terrifying American remake of a Japanese horror classic.
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Sony Pictures Classics CultureThe Comedian Is a Laugh-Free Nightmare
The screen legend Robert De Niro plays a grumpy standup in Taylor Hackford’s interminable new film.
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Netflix CultureZombies and Marital Strife: The Santa Clarita Diet
The Netflix show stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant as a couple thrown off course when one of them becomes a zombie.
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Michel Euler / AP CultureShould There Be an Oscars This Year?
Some critics are suggesting this year’s ceremony be canceled for political reasons, but it’s unclear what doing so would accomplish.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters CultureBeyoncé's High-Art Pregnancy Photo
The singer announced she’d be having twins with an image that broke social-media records—and fit into a long visual lineage.
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Frank Franklin II / AP EducationFrom Activism to Inequality: This Week's Top 7 Education Stories
The best recent writing about school
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters EducationBetsy DeVos Clears Key Senate Hurdle in Early-Morning Vote
The final vote is expected next week.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters EducationHow Law-School Classmates Ended Up With Opposing Perspectives on the Constitution
Neil Gorsuch and Barack Obama both graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991, but their legal ideologies are fundamentally different.
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Julie Jacobson / AP EducationNevada's ‘Super Voucher’ Failed to Save Poor Students
The Silver State’s school-choice program provided a useful template for what a school landscape could look like under Education Secretary-nominee Betsy DeVos.
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Keith Bedford / Reuters EducationThe Ivy League's Gender Pay-Gap Problem
Female alumni make 30 percent less, on average, than their male counterparts.
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Rick Wilking / Reuters EducationThe Hot New Brand of Higher Education
Donald Trump’s victory made conspicuous conservatism a viable marketing strategy.
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Andrew Harnik / AP EducationThe Education Secretaries Betsy DeVos Would Follow
Here are some quirky facts about the 10 people who previously oversaw the department.
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UC San Diego Library The Complicated Relevance of Dr. Seuss's Political Cartoons
“Geisel’s political cartoons go a long way in demonstrating how the spirit of Seuss—zany, honest, brash, and brave—was born.”
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George Kendall Warren U.S.Memo to the White House on the Contributions of Frederick Douglass
He's still relevant, and not just during Black History Month.
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Justin L. Stewart U.S.Americans at Work: Struggling to Make Ends Meet
Part of our ongoing series of photo essays at The Atlantic titled “Americans at Work.” This week, photographs of a working family in Los Angeles, made by photographer Justin L. Stewart.
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Mike Segar / Reuters U.S.The Organization That Sent Tulsi Gabbard to Syria
The Ohio-based Arab American group has been linked to the Assad regime and called anti-Semitic—charges its leader rejects.
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Bettmann / Getty U.S.Remembering Mary Tyler Moore
The television icon who helped redefine the sitcom, both in front of and behind the camera on her eponymous show, died at age 80.
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Jim Young / Reuters U.S.What's Causing Chicago’s Homicide Spike?
President Trump is vowing to “send in the Feds,” but researchers aren’t convinced they understand the rise, or how to stop it.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters) U.S.Dow Crosses 20,000, an All-Time High
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been hovering near the figure since the election of President Trump.
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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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VideoA Former Google Employee on How Your Phone Is Designed to Control Your Life
Tristan Harris speaks to PBS Newshour about the importance of digital detox.
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VideoCamus and Sartre's Bitter Friend Breakup, Animated
The French existentialists used to be close companions. What happened?
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Trump's Non-Policy on Israeli Settlements
In declining to take an “official position” on the issue, the president departs from a decades-old American posture.
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How Trump Could Build an Autocracy:
A Conversation with David Frum and Jeffrey GoldbergThe Atlantic’s David Frum will join Atlantic Editor-In-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss why he believes President Trump could lead our democracy to an autocracy, and what it could mean for the future of the Republic.
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