Abdallah Fayyad
The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods
Areas that are changing economically often draw more police—creating conditions for more surveillance and more potential misconduct.
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The Atlantic Saudi Arabia Isn’t Just Raising Taxes
For autocratic regimes, increasing taxes could put their survival at risk.
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J. Scott Applewhite / AP / The Atlantic The Resistance Misunderstood Justin Amash
The Libertarian congressman voted to impeach Donald Trump, but he’s not torn up about the prospect that his third-party run could help reelect him.
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travelview / Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Pandemic Could Change How Americans View Government
Congress’s push to temporarily expand the social safety net may have the country asking one big question: Why only now?
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Joyce Naltchayan / AFP / Getty The LGBTQ Health Clinic That Faced a Dark Truth About the AIDS Crisis
America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.
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Steven Senne / AP Should We Tell Fewer Stories About Suicide or Better Ones?
The challenges of covering and understanding a rising problem in America.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters To Stop Gangs, First You Have to Find Them
Rejecting members of MS-13 is the centerpiece of the president’s immigration strategy. But it’s not easy to tell who’s really in a gang.
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Charlie Neibergall / AP Are Politics Hereditary?
Parents often want to pass on their political beliefs to their kids. These factors determine when that works.
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Mohammed Salem / Reuters The Palestinian Struggle Transcends Religion
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Alex Brandon / AP Is a Moral Compass Enough for the CIA?
After Gina Haspel’s confirmation, we revisit the agency’s legacy of torture, and consider how agents make ethical decisions today.
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Mike Blake / Reuters All the President’s Lawyers
Who really represents Trump?
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Kristoffer Tripplaar / The Atlantic What Teachers Are Striking For
“You know that when teachers band together on their own, it’s gotta be bad.”
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Presidents Speak
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Nir Elias / Reuters What We Still Don’t Know About Marijuana
(A lot.)
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Emily Jan / The Atlantic What Should We Call the Parkland Generation?
Move over, Millennials.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Leaks, the Law, and the Press
How a White House leak can be interpreted—by the law, the press, and you.
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Justin Tallis / Getty Images Autonomous Cars Are Almost Here. Are Cities Ready?
The window to regulate driverless vehicles is still open, but not for much longer.
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Charles Knoblock / AP The Unfulfilled Promise of Fair Housing
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an integrated America was about creating a more equal society, but to many white homeowners, it was a threat.
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Dado Ruvic / Reuters Who’s to Answer for Cambridge Analytica?
Facebook, the government, or you?
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters How to Misremember the Iraq War
After 15 years, a gap has opened up between what happened and how it’s perceived.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters Russia’s Known Unknowns
Vladimir Putin’s totally predictable re-election offers a few clues to what the man of mystery might do next.
