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ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP / Getty / The ... 5 Questions for Undecided Voters
Instead of focusing solely on how the candidates would behave in the Oval Office, consider how each man is likely to inspire others to behave.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Should the Professional Be Political?
A Silicon Valley controversy raises questions about the role of activism in the workplace.
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Drew Angerer / Getty Trump Failed the 3 A.M. Test
Don’t let him answer another call.
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The Atlantic How Princeton Opened Itself to the Ultimate Troll
Why the left and the right are exaggerating the racism of the Ivy League institution.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Fight Against Words That Sound Like, but Are Not, Slurs
Colleges are torn apart when faculty are punished and publicly vilified for accidentally giving offense.
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TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP / Getty Democratic Change Still Works
Police reform can be achieved through the electoral process.
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The Atlantic ‘Please Don’t Convert to Whiteness’
The history professor Johann N. Neem, an immigrant from India, feels as though he is losing his country.
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D. Corson / ClassicStock / Getty Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart
What a viral story reveals about contemporary leftist discourse
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Laura Moss / The New York Times / ... The Princeton Faculty’s Anti-Free-Speech Demands
Some of the signers of a controversial open letter don’t stand behind its most alarming demand.
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Ray Howard / AP Purity Politics Makes Nothing Happen
Forging a right-left coalition may be the only way to end the drug war.
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Erin Patrice O’Brien / Redux The Chilling Effect of an Attack on a Scholar
Steven Pinker will be fine, but a letter from his critics signals less powerful scholars that certain opinions, publicly stated, could result in professional sanction.
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The Atlantic The Perils of ‘With Us or Against Us’
A healthy deliberative process needs to make room for dissent.
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The Atlantic Unbundling the Police in Venice Beach, California
You shouldn’t have to call 911 for problems related to homelessness.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic Why the War on Cocaine Still Isn’t Working
U.S. policy continues to harm Colombia while failing to prevent immense quantities of cocaine from reaching American soil.
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Shutterstock; Paul Spella / The Atlantic Apply Broken-Windows Theory to the Police
Police misconduct is widespread, far beyond the countless examples that are captured on cellphone cameras and posted to YouTube.
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Getty / The Atlantic Against the Insurrection Act
President Trump and Senator Tom Cotton want to use the military to quell riots. That would be catastrophic.
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Stephen Maturen / Getty The Protesters Deserve the Truth About the Coronavirus
Public-health experts should strive to provide a neutral accounting of risk.
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Gorb Andrii / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / ... Police Reform Is Popular. Rioting Is Not.
Once the fires are out, what is the best way to secure justice?
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Scott Olson / Getty Trump’s Looting Tweet Violates His Oath of Office
The president is supposed to protect and defend the nation’s supreme laws. Shooting looters is unconstitutional.
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Wikimedia / The Atlantic The Regulatory State Is Failing Us
Tyler Cowen suggests how to address some of the biggest obstacles to fighting COVID-19.
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